Eight: Lieutenant (Quartermaster) T. G. Milner, Manchester Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902...

Eight: Lieutenant (Quartermaster) T. G. Milner, Manchester Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast (4591 Pte. T. G. Milner. Manchester Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4591 Serjt: G. [sic] Milner. Manch: Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Lieut. T. G. Milner.); Defence Medal; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (No. 4591 Cr. Sgt. T. G. Milner. Manch. Rgt.) contemporarily engraved in the usual regimental style; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (4591 W.O. Cl. 1 T. G. Milner. Manch. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4591 C. Sjt: T. G. Milner. Manch: Regt.) mounted court-style for display; together with two silver regimental prize medals, the first engraved ‘Laver Hockey Tournament 1908 - Col. Sergt. Milner 1st Manchester Regt’, and the second ‘S.A.F.L. 1904 - Band & Drums Won By Band Sergt, Milner 1st Manchester Regt. Under Singapore Association Football League’; contact marks overall, the Boer War pair polished and worn, generally good fine or better (10) £500-£700

Special Collection
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

Footnote
Thomas George Milner was born in Newbridge, Co. Kildare, and attested for the Manchester Regiment aged 15 at Preston in May 1895. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War, and was promoted Corporal in November 1900; Sergeant Drummer in April 1906; and Colour Sergeant in February 1908, serving with the Regiment in India from 1904 until 1913.

Milner served during the Great War as Acting Regimental Sergeant Major with the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Manchester Regiment. He was commissioned Temporary Lieutenant and Quarter Master in the 16th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (1st City), on 18 April 1918, and served with them on the Western Front from 24 April 1918. He was demobilised to reside in Devizes, Wiltshire, in September 1921, later moving to Cleethorpes and Grimsby, and served as an air raid warden for Grimsby Corporation during the Second World War.

Sold with copied service papers and other research including a copied photographic image of the recipient in later life.