Milner, W

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Corporal Willis Milner

Family/Last name:
Milner
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Willis
Place of birth:
Ashwell, UK
Date of birth:
6/9/1919
Nationality:
British
Service number:
2577637
Service:
British Army
Military Unit:
British Army, Royal Corps of Signals
Rank when captured:
Corporal
Place of capture:
Dunkirk
POW number:
325
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag VB Villingen
Data sources
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In September 1939 Willis Milner left England as a signalman attached to the Worcester and Sherwood Foresters as part of the British expeditionary force (BEF) the mission did not go well and the BEF withdrew to the coast and Dunkirk.

His battalion formed part of the defensive ring around Dunkirk with the aim of giving as much time as possible to the troops being evacuated from the beaches.

His signal communications vehicle was destroyed by the approaching enemy, and later he and his section took a direct hit from an enemy shell killing some of his comrades and seriously wounding him in the leg, arm, and abdomen.

He received life saving surgery at a field dressing station next to a church before being taken prisoner and was eventually moved in cattle trucks to Lamsdorf Stalag VIIIB in Poland  where he became POW number 325 and  remained until repatriation.

A strong and proud man, husband, father and grandfather he will be greatly missed by all of those whose lives he touched

Died: 4 February 2012

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