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• Name MILNE
• Initials JE
• First name JOSEPH ELLIS
• Place of birth Fraserburgh
• Country Scotland
• Family Youngest Son of Capt. James Milne and Jessie Mitchell Milne, of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire; a sister Margaret, 74 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen
• Education Aberdeen Grammar School and University; graduated M.A 1888; M.B. (Hon.Dist.) 1891; M.D. (Com.) 1894
• Profession Doctor in Aberdeen
• Extra info Doctor to Aberdeen Football Club; commemorated on the plaque at Pittodrie football ground

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment April 1915, Aberdeen
• Rank Captain
• Medals D S O, Mentioned in Despatches
• Regiment and unit 1st/8th Bn. King's (Liverpool Regiment)
• Division - Brigade 164th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 55th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Attached or transferred from Royal Army Medical Corps
• Other data related to military career To France on 4 May 1915, with the Highland CCS; became medical officer to the King's Liverpool Regiment; D.S.O. for his work in the Battle of the Soome 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during operations. He has repeatedly tended the wounded under heavy shell fire and has shown himself utterly regardless of personal safety'.

Death

• Wounded Gully trench, near Railway Wood
• Type of wounds Killed in action, by a sniper
• Date of death 22 February 1917
• Died at the age of 48
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - A - 8

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