Service Details
Name:
 MILWARD
Given Name:
 PHILIP HENRY
Initials:
 P H
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 Rifle Brigade
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Unit:
 7th Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1915-12-07
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Date of Birth:
 1873-02-12
Age:
 42
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds
Additional
Information:
Son of John Frederick and Frances Mary (nee Edge) Milward, of Redditch, Warwickshire, England. Husband of Rosa Marguerite (nee Edge) Milward. Born Southmead Redditch, Ipsley, Warwickshire, England. Served as a Lieutenant with the Durban Light Infantry and the 4th Regiment of Foot, the King's Own Royal Regiment in the ABW 1899-1902. A colonial merchant in Colombo, Ceylon. Enlisted in Rifle Brigade as a Sergeant (S/7494) Planters Contingent, on 12 December 1914; commissioned 7 January 1915; served with the 7th Battalion (The Prince Consort's Own) in France & Belgium; WIA by a shell at Hooge; re-joined his unit end of July; WIA and evacuated to # 10 Casualty Clearing Station, near Poperinghe, Flanders. Commemorated on Milward family headstone Plymouth Road Cemetery, Redditch, Worcestershire. Commemorated Durban Light Infantry WWI Memorial. Commemorated Arden Lawn School WWI Memorial. Commemorated on the WWI Memorial in Uppingham School Chapel. Commemorated on Durban Cenotaph WWI ROH
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. A. 8.

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