MILLIGAN Herbert Ward

Herbert Milligan was born in 1884. He attended Bromsgrove School from 1901 to 1903 where he played for the school XV team. Milligan came to Bromsgrove from King Edward’s School and soon reached a high position in the Sixth Form. He was a Cookes’ Scholar at Worcester College, Oxford where he obtained a Second Class in Classical Moderations and a Second Class in “Greats”. On leaving Oxford he entered for the Colonial Civil Service and accepted a post in Ceylon. At the outbreak of war he obtained permission to join a contingent of the Ceylon Planters’ Rifle Corps, which had volunteered for active service and went with them to Egypt. He was offered a commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers and went to Gallipoli. He took part in the historic landing of April 14th 1915 and was later wounded and sent home. Afterwards he was three times wounded in France and finally killed in action. While in Ceylon he was awarded the Royal Humane Society Medal for bravery in saving the lives of fishermen at Negombo.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

Herbert Milligan has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Cambrai Memorial.