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Lieutenant Alexander Wilson Milligan

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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
Death: September 2, 1918 France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: A. 21.
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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.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 471 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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UPTON WOOD CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais about 16 kilometres south-east of Arras and about 4 kilometres south of the Arras to Cambrai main road. Upton Wood is a small wood half-way between Hendecourt and Haucourt and UPTON WOOD CEMETERY is 110 metres south of the wood and about 2 kilometres north of the village.

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