WW1 Pair and SWB to Miller Seaforth Highlanders.

A WW1 British war and victory medal with Silver War badge correctly named and numbered to; S/9635 Private John Miller of the 9th battalion the Seaforth Highlanders. It comes with a beautiful original photograph of him in his hospital blues. He is also entitled to the 1914/15 star, which is missing.
The 9th battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders were part of Kitchener’s new army and formed at Fort George in October 1914. Moved to Aldershot in November and on 3rd December came under command of 9th Scottish Division as divisional troops. They became a Pioneer Battalion to same Division in early 1915 and moved to Rowledge (Farnham).
They were ordered overseas in march and landed at Boulogne on 10th May 1915. However on John’s medal index card, it states he arrived on 4th November 1915. In 1916 they were in action in the Battle of the Somme, including the capture of Longueval, The Battle of Delville Wood and The Battle of Le Transloy. In 1917 they fought in the the First and Second Battles of the Scarpe during the Arras Offensive, the First Battle of Passchendaele and The action of Welsh Ridge.
Private Miller was discharged with Bomb wounds on 3rd November 1917, probably from wounds received on the Somme battle field, here he received his silver wound badge which is numbered 295023.
The medals are in excellent untouched condition, however the war badge has lost its pin, which happened a lot when worn. The medals come with copies of his medal index card, medal roll and SWB roll. A really lovely lot to this poor wounded man, it needs research to find the history of the war service this man endured.

Code: 26476