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Auction: 22133 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 118

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Transvaal (5718 Pte. O. Millwater, Gren: Gds:), contact marks, edge bruise, nearly very fine

Oliver Curtis Millwater was born in 1873 and served with the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards during the Boer War. Seeing action during Lord Methuen's doomed push to relieve Kimberly as part of Colville's Guards Brigade including the bloody fighting at Belmont and on the Modder River. After victory here Methuen's forces advanced to Magersfontien where they were finally halted with terrible losses, most notably to the Highland Brigade. Millwater survived the fighting and went on to see service through the Guerrilla phase of the war, returning to Britain on 27 June 1902.

Millwater was living in Hereford and working as a Labourer on the outbreak of the Great War, he enlisted on 19 November 1914 with the Royal Engineers (R.A.). He entered the war on 21 January 1915 and continued to serve until the end of the conflict, by which time he had transferred to into The King's (Liverpool) Regiment. Millwater's Medal Index Card notes that his medals were re-issued and returned on the grounds that he had 'gone away'. There is no note of his acquiring any further and as such he is further entitled only to the King's South Africa Medal; sold together with copied service papers, medal rolls and M.I.C.


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£190

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£180