ARTHUR FREDERICK MILNER

RANK: Lance Corporal.

SERVICE NUMBER: 260211.

REGIMENT: 1st County of London Yeomanry, Middlesex Duke of Cambridge Hussars.

BORN: Leeds.

ENLISTED: Chelsea London.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 27/10/1917.

AGED: 26.

CEMETERY:Beersheba War Cemetery is in a southern town on the edge of the Negev Desert,75 km south-west of Jerusalem Isreal.

GRAVE /PANEL: Q. 6.

LEEDS MODERN: 1903-1909.

Arthur was the son of Frederick Born Leeds 1861 and Eliza Batty Born Kendal Westmoreland 1858, they married at Leeds in 1881.

Arthur left Leeds Boys Modern to join the Civil service, and in April 1914 he enlisted into the Army joining the County of London Regiment in Yeomanry.

At the outbreak of war he trained and was sent to Egypt in April 1915, Arthur went onto Gallipoli in Turkey and was involved in the landing at Suvla Bay.

Arthur was wounded at Sari Bair and was sent to Hospital on the Greek island of Lemnos to recuperate, then back to Suvla until his Battalion was evacuated.

Arthur saw action around the Suez Canal area and was then sent to salonica to take part in the Balkan campaign against the Bulgarians.

Arthur was on the move again in May 1917 joining the Palestine Expiditionary Force, on the 27th October 1917 whilst protecting an advanced poat a large group of Turkish troops attacked his position, it was reported that Arthur's troop held out for over twelve hours, it was during this encounter Arthur lost his life when a shell landed on his position.

The CWGC shows the following details:

"Son of Frederick William and Eliza Milner, of "The Beeches," Stepney Rd., Scarborough. Civil Servant and an Associate in Arts of the University of Oxford."


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