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Alexander Anderson Milne

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Alexander Milne (image courtesy of Ann Stewart)

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: 26.04.1915
  • Place of enlistment: Yorkhill, Glasgow
  • Service no: 316263
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Unit/Ship: 3rd/1st Lowland Field Ambulance
  • Place of Death: 17th Military Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt
  • Age at Death: 40
  • Date of Death: 06.11.1918
  • Burial Country: Egypt
  • Cemetery: Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: A.187

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Monifieth
  • Address: 38 James St, Helensburgh
  • Occupation: Postal Worker, Helensburgh
  • Mother:

    Elizabeth Chalmers Milne, Monifieth

  • Father:

    George Rose Milne, Monifieth

  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:

    Joan Milne, 38 James St, Helensburgh

  • Children:

    Jane, born 28.06.1906, George, born 08.01.1908 & Elizabeth, 30.09.1915

More about Alexander Anderson Milne

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour.

1793 Pte Alexander Anderson Milne RAMC,  (re numbered under National re numbering of Territorial Force units to 316263 late 1916 )
3/1 Lowland Field Ambulance, RAMC,  a Glasgow raised Territorial Force Field Ambulance.
Enlisted at Yorkhill, Glasgow on 26 April 1915 at age 34 yrs. previous employment Postman.  Born Monifeith, Forfarshire.  A married man resident at 38 James Street Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire.  NOK,  Mrs Joan Milne, wife of same address
After training in UK he deployed to Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and served in the Sanitary Section, later being attached to 1/1 South Midlands Mountain Field Ambulance, RAMC.  He was hospitalised a number of times in the Middle East with various illnesses including Influenza, and Renal Colic amongst others.  His final illness was Malaria complicated by Dysentery to which he succumbed in 17 General Hospital, RAMC, Alexandria on 6 Nov 1918.

Information supplied by Gary Thomson, additional information kindly supplied by Ann Stewart and Jim Flood

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