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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
April 5, 1890
Victoria, British Columbia
Enlistment:
September 25, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
September 2, 1918
France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
A. 21.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Stamper and Sarah Hope (nee Paton) Milligan, of Victoria, British Columbia. Brother of John, Charles and Lieutenant George Berry Milligan, MC, Royal Field Artillery, killed in action on 24 March 1918.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Alexander Wilson Milligan
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of March 25, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y90uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Daily Colonist of March 28, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y93uvic#mode/1up -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
From the Daily Colonist of September 11, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y239uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Alexander Wilson Milligan
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Alexander Wilson Milligan
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Alexander Wilson Milligan
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 471 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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