Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

Pair: Second Lieutenant B. H. Weaver, Suffolk Regiment, attached Supply & Transport Corps

British War Medal 1914-20 (2 Lieut.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (2-Lieut., S & T. C.) this last officially re-impressed, mounted as worn

Three: Captain G. S. Mill, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, late 3/5th Gurkha Rifles

British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £100-140

Bertram Harold Weaver was employed as a Clerk at the time of his marriage to Madge Malton in London in 1912. As a Serjeant in the East Surrey Regiment he served in India from November 1914. His m.i.c. also records service with the Royal Sussex and South Staffordshire Regiments. He was commissioned a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment in August 1917 (London Gazette 5 September 1917) and was advanced to Temporary Lieutenant in February 1919 (London Gazette 9 December 1919). He was at this time attached to the Supply & Transport Corps. Weaver relinquished his commission with the Suffolk Regiment whilst retaining his rank on 31 January 1920 (London Gazette 10 May 1920). With copied m.i.c., gazette extracts and other research.

George Scott Mill born in Anstruther, Fife on 30 July 1891. Educated at George Watson's College and Edinburgh University, M.A. (1914), B.Sc. (1914). Appointed Missionary Professor of Mathematics in Scottish Churches' College, 1914. The British War Medal was his only WW1 medal, as the Adjutant for the 3/5th Gurkha Rifles 1917-19, serving in India. On his m.i.c., his address is given as 4 Bellevue Terrace, Edinburgh. After the War he took divinity classes at Edinburgh, 1919-1920. He was licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh, 1920 and the following year Ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh to Scottish Churches' College, Calcutta. He then transferred to Eastern Himalayan Mission (Kurseong) in 1924. Later he took Holy Orders and as Reverend G. S Mill was principal of the Scottish Universities Mission Institution from 1927-1941. Then he was granted an Emergency Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army on 8 November 1941. After the War he was admitted to Garvald in 1948. With copied m.i.c. and some other research.