Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private M. Love, Liverpool Regiment, who was severely wounded at Geluk in August 1900

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (4947 Cpl. M. Love, Liverpool Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4947 Pte. M. Love. Liverpool Regt.) toned, good very fine (2) £200-£260

Miles Love was born in Peshawar, India on 20 March 1869. In the 1881 census he appears at the Royal Military Asylum in Chelsea as a 12 year old scholar with hundreds of other children of serving soldiers. His mother resided at the time in Aldershot with his 3 siblings.

Miles joined the Army Hospital Corps as a 14 year-old in April 1883 and was given the service number 5423. He gave his trade as a Laundry Boy. He was appointed Bugler of the M.S.C. in September 1885 and served his entire 12 years with the Corps at home. His return to civilian life was short lived, only a few months later he attested for the 2nd Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment on 13 September 1895.

In The Times of August 30, 1900, he is included amongst those who were reported as being missing at Geluk on 26 August 1900. Later records reveal that he was severely wounded. One of his fellow soldiers Pte. Heaton received a V.C. for going back for help at great risk to his own personal safety after his company was surrounded.

In the Great War he enlisted on 4 November 1914, was given the number 139531 and served at home primarily in the Labour Corps and R.A.M.C until 13 April 1919. After he was discharged from the 10th Coy, R.A.M.C., he was employed at General Accident as an Insurance Porter. He died on 22 February 1941, in London of Cardiac Failure.