Silver bead or button. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 3/1/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Silver bead or button. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 3/1/2006]
Geographical reference: Malaysia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Malaysia
Person: Field collector Frank Mills; PRM source John R. Frank Mills
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1893
Date collected: 1893 - 1913 MALAYSIA
Acquisition information: Donated: 1992
Materials and processes: Material Silver Metal, Process Impressed
Dimensions: Diameter: max 15 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1992.6.186
Research and responses: See Photographic Archive collection for albums of photographs. [MdeA 10/10/2002]
See Related Documents File for correspondence with donor. [MdeA 10/10/2002]
'Lieutenant-Colonel F. Mills, D.S.O. was born in Liverpool in 1873. In 1893 or 1894 he went to Malaya as a Civil Engineer to develop the railway system. In his spare time he enjoyed big game hunting and polo. He left Malaya in 1913 and returned to England. Obtained a Commission in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and commanded the 6th Battalion in Palestine and at Gallipoli. Received the D.S.O. at the Battle of Gaza. Left the army at the end of the war. Married in 1919, and lived in Wales until his death in 1945.' [MdeA 10/10/2002]

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