Milne, William Charles
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: 121st Pioneers (Indian Army)
Biography: Elder son of John Milne, chemist ; born Fetterangus, 26 July 1886 ; educated Aberdeen Grammar School ; graduated M.A., 1908. He studied at Oxford and in Germany as a probationer for the Indian Forest Service and was appointed in 1911 Assistant Conservator, attached to the Northern Circle of the Bombay Presidency. In 1913 he was placed in charge of the East Khandesh Forest Division. Transferred on the outbreak of war to the Indian Army Reserve, he was later attached to the Indian Infantry and sent to Mesopotamia where he was stationed at Samarrah. He died of enteric at the Officers' Hospital, Baghdad, on 29 October 1917.
Date of Death: 29 October 1917
Burial Details: Buried at North Gate War Cemetery, Baghdad, Plot 6, Row D, Grave 3.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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