MYLNE Euan Louis

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Weekly Messenger, March 1917:
ALVECHURCH OFFICER
THE LATE LIEUT. E.L. MYLNE, M.C.
Lieutenant Euan Louis Mylne, M.C., Irish Guards, whose death from wounds on September 26th 1916 [Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Soldiers Died in the Great War record his date of death as September 15th], was officially announced last week, was the sixth son of Bishop Mylne, Rector of Alvechurch, formerly Bishop of Bombay.  He received a commission in the Irish Guards in January 1916 having left Uppingham at Christmas.  On his 19th birthday he accepted an offer of going to the front at once instead of completing a machine-gun course.  His services on the day of his death were thus stated in the posthumously conferred Military Cross:- “Showed great coolness in reorganising the men in the final stages of the attack, when different units were mixed up.  He led on to an advanced position with great dash and consolidated under heavy fire. While doing this he was severely wounded.”  Beyond these facts nothing was known for nearly a month when news reached his family through a private source that they must not think of him as possibly alive.  The trench in which he was unavoidably left, when a counter-attack at tremendous odds retook it late in the evening, was visited next day by a wounded soldier dragging himself back to the British lines.  He found it “No Man’s Land” for the time being, and spent some time in it by the side of his gallant young officer’s body.  It was lying in a posture of perfect repose, which showed that he had not moved or been touched, but had quietly bled to death where they had left him (“very tired,” he said) on the previous evening.