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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 86

Family Group: Three: Lieutenant A.J. Millar, Black Watch 1914-15 Star (2582 Cpl. A.J. Millar. R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (2582 Cpl. A.J. Millar, R. Highrs.), unit partially officially corrected on BWM, extremely fine, in damaged named card boxes and envelope of issue Five: Major N.K. Millar, Black Watch 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star, with 8th Army Bar; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., with ´Territorial´ top riband bar, reverse officially dated ´1966´, extremely fine, the Second World War awards in named card box of issue, with enclosure; the E.D. in Royal Mint case of issue (8) Estimate £ 120-150 Lieutenant Arthur James Millar, enlisted as 2582 Private, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders); served with the 4th Battalion on the Western Front from 24.2.1915; Commissioned Lieutenant, Highland Cyclist Battalion, 17.12.1918 Efficiency Decoration London Gazette 13.5.1966 Capt. (Hon. Maj.) N.K. Millar (96293), B.W., Highland Brigade, retired Major Norman Kinnaird Millar, T.D., born 1.5.1906, the son of Lieutenant A.J. Millar; Commissioned from the ranks Second Lieutenant, 7th Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), 30.8.1939; served with the Battalion in North Africa on the Alamein Line, where he was wounded, 28.10.1942 (Battalion War Diary refers); Captain and Temporary Major, 15.12.1943. At the end of the War Millar married the harpist Miss Sidonie Goossens, O.B.E., the daughter of Eugene Goossens, the conductor, and brother of Sir Eugene Goossens, the celebrated composer and conductor. In civilian life Millar worked as administrator to Sir Thomas Beecham, the conductor, whilst still serving in the Territorial Army. He died in April 1991, the year his wife became, at 91, the oldest person ever to perform at the Last Night of the Proms.

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