THE MICHAEL ASHCROFT TRUST HAS RECENTLY ACQUIRED THE VICTORIA CROSS AWARDED TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL FREDERICK MILLER, ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.
10 November 2010


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Medal entitlement of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Miller,
Royal Regiment of Artillery

  • Victoria Cross
  • Crimea Medal ( 1854-56 )
    • 4 clasps:
    • "Alma" - "Balaclava"
    • "Inkermann" - "Sebastopol"
  • Knight, Legion of Honour ( France )
  • Order of the Medjidieh ( Turkey )
  • Turkish Crimea Medal ( 1855-56 )


The Victoria Cross and campaign medals awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Miller, Royal Regiment of Artillery, have been acquired by the Michael Ashcroft Trust, the holding institution for Lord Ashcroft's VC Collection.


For the award of the Victoria Cross.

[ London Gazette, 6 May 1859 ], Inkermann, Crimean War, 5 November 1854, Lieutenant Frederick Miller, Royal Regiment of Artillery.

For having, at the Battle of Inkerman, personally attacked three Russians, and with the gunners of his Division of the Battery, prevented the Russians from doing mischief to the guns which they had surrounded. Part of a Regiment of English Infantry had previously retired through the Battery in front of this body of Russians

Frederick Miller was invested with his Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace on the 8th June 1859.


Frederick Miller died on the 17 February 1874, aged 42, at The Castle, Cape Town, South Africa. He was first interred in St Peter's Cemetery, Cape Town, and later in St Peter's Ossuary Memorial Garden, Observatory, Cape Town.

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Iain Stewart, 10 November 2010