| Surname: | Milne |
| Forename(s): | John |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Service number: | 38277 and 19282 |
| Regiment: | Royal Scots attached to 10/11 HLI |
| Date of death: | 24 April 1917 Aged 37 |
| Place of death: | Arras |
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Buried Commemorated |
Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery, Arras IV.C.20 Kingussie War Memorial |
Background
John was born on 6 May 1880 at 6 North Church Place, Inverness.
John remained with his family living in Inverness for some years. 1881 Census living at 6 Beatons Lane, 1891 and 1901 Census living at 2 Crown Street all Inverness. in 1901 John is described as a house painter.
John Milne, painter, married Mary Elizabeth (m.s. McIntosh) of Ashwood, Kingussie (103 High Street) at Kingussie Parish Church on 2 October 1903.
1911 Census shows John and his wife Mary living at 11 Westfield Road, Gorgie, Edinburgh with John’s brother, Samuel living with them. John was working as a house painter. They had three children at that time and another son, Donald, was born in 1912.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission record John Milne, at the time of his death, as husband of Mary Milne, Carron, King Street, Kingussie.
War Record
John enlisted December 1914 and the family were still living at 11 Westfield Road, Edinburgh.
He died of wounds 24 April 1917 and is buried at Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery, Arras. He is also remembered on the Kingussie and Insh Memorial in Kingussie Parish Church, the Gorgie War Memorial, Edinburgh and Ring of Remembrance Notre Dame-de-Lorette.
John’s brother, Private Samuel Milne 14338, enlisted in Edinburgh and died, aged 31 Killed in Action while serving with the 1st Cameron Highlanders on 28 September 1915. Samuel is buried at Ninth Avenue Cemetery, Haisnes.
1923 Gorgie War Memorial “Gorgie and Beyond,” a booklet, compiled by Edward S Flint notes the following
“Men were demobilized and returned to civilian life, but the fallen were not forgotten. Through a carnival at Waverley Market, a sports day at Tynecastle, a service and music at Saughton Park, donation, a fund was raised, for the purchase of the former Gorgie Free Church “The Little Church in the Field”, on Gorgie Road, at Westfield Street, which itself was to be a functional war memorial, a hall to be used as a community resource.” Remembered on the Memorial
L/Corp John Milne ( ) R. Scots, attached HLI. DoW 24 Apr 1917.
Pte Samuel Milne (31) No. 14338, 1 Cam Hdrs. KiA 28 Sep 1915
