THE 1914-15 STAR TRIO AWARDED TO PRIVATE G. MILLER, WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, A PRE-WAR TERRITORIAL. Three: 1914-15 Star (1465 Private, West Yorkshire Regiment) British War and Victory Medals (1465 Private, West Yorkshire Regiment).
£95.00
THE 1914-15 STAR TRIO AWARDED TO PRIVATE G. MILLER, WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, A PRE-WAR TERRITORIAL. Three: 1914-15 Star (1465 Private, West Yorkshire Regiment) British War and Victory Medals (1465 Private, West Yorkshire Regiment). Generally Extremely Fine.
With photocopied Medal Index card and copied extracts from published WW1 medal roll and Silver War Badge roll, which confirms that George Miller originally enlisted on 13/3/1913 and first saw active service in France, entering that theatre of operations on 16/4/1915, subsequently saw service as 401614 Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, and was disembodied on 19/8/1919. Private Miller was also entitled to a Silver War Badge.
Private Miller would have seen service with either the 1/5th (York), 1/6th (Bradford), 1/7th (Leeds Rifles) or the 1/8th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Together the four battalions formed the 1st West Riding Brigade, West Riding Division. Laurie Magnus’s “The West Riding Territorials in the Great War” records the West Riding Brigade leaving Yorkshire in 84 trains between 12/4/1915 and 16/4/1915, and embarking at Southampton, Avonmouth and Folkestone for Havre, Rouen and Boulogne respectively.