- First Name(s):EdwardGraham
- Surname:MYLNE
- Service Number:Unknown
- Rank:
Captain
- Conflict:WW1
- Service:Army
- Army Sector:Infantry
- Regiment:Irish Guards
- Battalion:1st Battalion
- Former Units:None
- Date of Death:12th June 1915
- Age At Death:32
- Cause of Death:Died of wounds
- Place of Death:Unknown
- Place of Burial:St Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France, Grave Officers, A. 1. 5.
- Place of Birth:Bombay, India
- Home Town:Unknown
- Casualty's Relatives:
Son of Louis George and Amy Frederica Mylne
MYLNE Edward Graham Is Named On These Memorials
Further Information About MYLNE Edward Graham
Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.
Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Weekly Messenger, May 1915:
ALVECHURCH OFFICER WOUNDED
SON OF BISHOP MYLNE
Official news has been received at the Rectory, Alvechurch, that Captain Graham Mylne, of the 1st Irish Guards, eldest son of the Rector (Bishop Mylne) and Mrs Mylne has been seriously wounded in the recent fighting in France and is now in hospital at Rouen. Captain Mylne was returning to the trenches after a reconnaissance when he received his wounds. Satisfactory progress towards recovery was at first made, but later information states that the improvement has not been maintained, and he is not so well. The Rector has two other sons in the army and one in the navy.
The Rector (Bishop Mylne), Mrs Mylne and the Rev. Alan Mylne proceeded to the hospital at Rouen on Thursday morning to visit their son Captain Graham Mylne. Information had been received during the week that he was making good progress, but a telegram was received on Wednesday night stating that his condition was serious.
Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Weekly Messenger, May 1915:
DEATH OF BISHOP MYLNE’S SON
RESULT OF WOUNDS
Captain Edward Graham Mylne, of the 1st Irish Guards, eldest son of the Rector of Alvechurch (Bishop Mylne) and Mrs Mylne, succumbed to his wounds at No 11 Red Cross Hospital, Rouen, early on Saturday morning and the funeral took place on Sunday. The deceased officer was wounded in the lungs by a bullet, near Bethune, on May 13th and though progress towards recovery was at first made, pneumonia supervened, with fatal results. The Rector and Mrs Mylne were with Captain Mylne during the fortnight previous to his death. The deceased was born at Bombay in January 1883, and was educated at Marlborough College and Keble College, Oxford, of which he was a scholar. He ran for Oxford against Cambridge in the 100 yards in 1905. In the same year he received an appointment in the Royal Irish Constabulary, in which he served with distinction, obtaining special good service pay, and other honours. He was one of the first Constabulary officers who obtained commissions in the Irish Guards about ten weeks after the outbreak of the war.
At the evening service at the Parish Church, Alvechurch on Sunday the Rev. H. Gratton Kane, A.K.C. (curate), referred to the Rector’s bereavement. He said that he felt sure that everyone in the whole parish felt sympathy for Bishop Mylne and his family, and urged the congregation to make it practical sympathy, pointing out that it the great aim of their Spiritual Chief was to deepen the spiritual life of his people, and they had now an opportunity given them to prove the depth of their feeling by giving him in the future the joy of feeling that his pastoral efforts were helping them to know God better and to realise the beauty of worship. If this be the fruit of their sympathy then their Rector would feel that he gave his son up not without reaping a blessing. At the close of the service the organist played the “Dead March” from “Saul”.