Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Commander (Engineer) J. N. Millar, Royal Canadian Navy, late Royal Navy
British War and Victory Medals (M.32119 J. N. Millar. A/E.R.A.4. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; United States of America, United States Merchant Marine War Medal 1941-45, bronze, mounted court-style for display; together with the recipient’s British Empire Service League Canadian Legion medal, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Jack N. Millar New York (USA 120) 1955-57’, with top ‘Past Commander’ riband bar, lacquered, very fine

Pair: Gunner H. D. Forbes, Canadian Field Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (340434 Gnr. H. D. Forbes. C.F.A.) nearly extremely fine (10) £80-£100

John Nelson Millar was born in Glasgow on 24 September 1896 and enlisted in the Royal Navy for hostilities only on 21 June 1918, borne on the books of H.M.S. Venerable as an Acting Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class from 28 October 1918. He was shore demobilised on 20 February 1919. Emigrating to the United States of America in 1923, he founded an elevator repair service, based in Newark, New Jersey, and following the outbreak of the Second World War offered his services to the United States Navy, but was rejected by virtue of not being a United States citizen. Instead, he proceed to Canada, and was commissioned Lieutenant (Engineer) in the Royal Canadian Navy on a hostilities only basis on 17 November 1942. He was placed on the Retired List with the rank of Commander (Engineer) on 5 September 1948, and died on 3 June 1962.

Sold with copied service papers

Henry Dean Forbes attested for the 69th Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force at Toronto on 10 December 1914 and served overseas with the 6th Canadian Field Artillery in France. He was demobilised in August 1919, and was permitted to proceed on discharge to Chicago, United States of America.

Sold with the recipient’s Discharge Certificate; Permit to proceed to the United States in Uniform on Discharge; a letter to the recipient's mother in Chicago from the Chaplain at Witley camp, sent during the War; and a leather bound set of the Book of Common Prayer and Hymnal, Oxford University Press, the cover page of the former inscribed ‘To dear Dad, from Erthel, Christmas 1925’, and later inscribed ‘At rest. May 24th 1934 - 77 years’.