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Milne-C-G-Pte-556

Page history last edited by Lenore Frost 4 years, 11 months ago

Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

4th Australian Machine Gun Company, at Fruges in France, 13 Sept 1917. Milne

is identified standing on the far right of the row second from the front.  He was

killed in action the following month. http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P01820.001

 

 

Milne C G         Pte    556    Cleve Goulding             4 MG Coy    19    Fitter and turner    Single    Pres

Address:    Essendon, Daisy St, 25    

Next of Kin:    Milne, W A, father, 25 Daisy St, Essendon    

Enlisted:    11 Oct 1916    

Embarked:     A67 Orsova 6 Dec 1916    

Prior service:  59 Inf Bn 

 

Date of death: 17/10/1917

CWGC: "Son of William Alexander and Ada Jane Milne, of "Strathcona," 25, Daisy St, Essendon, Victoria, Australia. Native of Ballarat, Victoria".

Inscription

"FOR FAITH, FOR LIBERTY FOR TRUTH HE OFFERED UP HIS STALWART YOUTH".

DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

 

 

War Service Commemorated

Essendon Town Hall L-R

Essendon State School

St John's Presbyterian Church *

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours 

 

 

In Memoriam

 

MILNE.—In loving memory of our dear son and

brother, Private Cleve G. Milne, 4th Machine Gun

Co., killed in action near Zonnebeke Belgium,

17th October, 1917; reinterred Docy Farm Cemetery.  

Sadly missed.

—(25 Daisy street, Essendon.)

 

Family Notices. (1920, October 18). The Argus

(Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 1.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4577021

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