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Six: Colonel C. E. Baddeley, C.B., C.M.G., Royal Engineers
India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 Lieutt. C. E. Baddeley R.E. No. 2 Coy Bo. Sappers & Miners); India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 Captn. C. E. Baddeley. R.E.); 1914 Star (Col: C. E. Baddeley.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Col. C. E. Baddeley.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, suspension bent on British War Medal, naming rubbed on Victory Medal, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (6)
£500-£600
C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1919. C.M.G. London Gazette 3 June 1916. M.I.D. London Gazette 15 June 1916; 20 May and 20 December, 1918.
Charles Edward Baddeley was born on 27 July 1861, son of Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. C. Baddeley. He joined the Royal Engineers as Lieutenant on 27 July 1880; Captain, 17 December 1889; Major, 1 April 1899; Lieutenant-Colonel, 22 October 1905; Brevet Colonel, 22 October 1908; Colonel, 22 October 1910. Served in Burmese Expedition 1885-87 (despatches, medal with clasps); N.W. Frontier of India 1897-98 (despatches, medal with clasp); Tirah 1897-98; capture of Sampagha and Arhanga Passes; Operations in Bazar Valley (clasp). Served during the European War 1914-18, in France from 7 November 1914 as Deputy Director of Works, graded Chief Engineer (despatches three times; C.M.G.; C.B.). Colonel Baddeley died on 23 April 1923.
See Lot 534 for the China 1842 medal awarded to his father.
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Pair: Garrison Sergeant-Major J. M. S. Miller, Leicestershire Regiment, later a Yeoman of the Guard
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (800 Dr. Mr. Sergt. J. M. S. Miller 2d Bn. Leic. R.); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, suspension post slightly bent on first, edge bruising, very fine and better (2)
£400-£500 Provenance: The Trevor Harris Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2005.
John Miller (name later changed to John Mount Stephen Miller) was born in the Parish of Saint Pauls, Exeter, and enlisted into the 17th Regiment at Plymouth on 14 December 1872, aged 18, a whitesmith by trade. He served continuously in the 2nd Battalion until being discharged in October 1896, the last 20 of those years as a member of the Sergeant’s Mess - he was advanced to Sergeant-Major in December 1890, shortly after his participation in the Burma operations. Miller, who was also the recipient of a L.S. & G.C. medal in 1905, next served on the Staff at Cork as a Garrison Sergeant-Major but finding this new post not to his liking, departed the Colours for a second time in February 1898. However, as described in his own account of his career, which appeared in The Green Tiger, he was quickly back in uniform:
‘On 31 March 1900, I again found myself playing the old game, as I was appointed by the War Office to be a Sergeant-Major of the 1st Battalion, Royal Northern Reserve Regiment, and proceeded, with a party from the depot at Leicester, to Woking, where I had no cause to complain of little work. I met many an old “Tiger” I had not seen for years in this regiment and Captain Pearson of “Ours” was the Assistant Adjutant. After thirteen months the Battalion was disbanded and I again found myself in civil life. I settled in a charming little village on the coast of North Devon and thought I was at last a fixture, but no. On the 8 October 1904, I received a letter from the War Office saying that I had been selected to fill a vacancy in the King’s Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Guard. I can’t tell you how I felt when I received the letter. Anyway it was marching orders for me. I soon packed up and got nearer my work, sworn in at St. James’s. I was served out with my kit, and now, I hope, I shall have the honour of being actively connected with the Service till the end of my days.’
Miller died at Yeovil, Somerset, on 20 November 1915. Sold with copied discharge papers and article from The Green Tiger.
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