Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | Archangel Memorial | B. 14. Murmansk | |
| 2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.130 | |
| 3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 18B GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | |||
Family :
Son of the Rev. J. Milner, M.A., of Chilton Rectory, Sudbury, Suffolk.Education & Career :
Oswestry School & St Catherine's College Cambridge
Schoolmaster & Chaplain
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
- The Russian Civil War 1917-1923, Russia.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: HMHS Garth Castle |
HMHS GARTH CASTLE was the sucessor to SS Garth Castle (1880). Built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow, Yard No 478, in 1910 for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company. She was 7,612 gross tonnes, 452 feet 6 inches by 54 feet 3 inches, twin screen, 2 x Quadruple Expansion, 647 Nautical Horsepower and 13 knots. She became a Naval Hospital Ship. YA.2, commissioned on 4th November 1914 as a hospital ship and could carry approximately 250 casualties. On 24th June 1917, during a fleet inspection, the surgeons and nursing staff were presented to H.M. King George V. She took part in the North Russian Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919. She was broken up in 1939. |
| Action : Russia |
The Allied intervention was a multi-national military expedition launched in 1918 during the Russian Civil War and World War I. With the end of the Great War, the Allies, fearful of Bolshevism, openly intervened in the Russian Civil War, giving support to the pro-Tsarist, anti-Bolshevik White forces. However, opposition for the ongoing campaign became widespread, due to a combination of a lack of public support and war weariness; divided objectives and a lack of an overarching strategy also hampered the effort. These factors, together with the evacuation of the Czechoslovak legion and the deteriorating situation compelled the Allies to withdraw from North Russia and Siberia in 1920.
Detail :
OSWESTRY SCHOOL http://www.oswestryschool.org.uk/extraDiary/991/January_P_A
The Rev Milner, was a well liked and respected member of the school, and after he left, to take up a Naval Chaplaincy, he maintained his connection with the school by contributing several articles to The Oswestrian magazine, on life at sea during wartime. Tragically, in 1919, aged 29, while attached to the hospital ship HMHS Garth Castle, Rev Milner was accidentally killed by the explosion of a bomb on board ship at Archangel, Russia during the Allied Intervention in Russia after the October Revolution. The Rev D R Milner is remembered in the Roll of Honour in the School Chapel The Revd Dermond Ross MILNER. Temporary Chaplain, Royal Navy. H.M. Hospital Ship Garth Castle. The son of the Revd. J. Milner, M.A. of Chilton Rectory, Sudbury, Suffolk, he was a Late Open Exhib. of St, Catherine's College, Cambridge where he obtained a B.A. in 1912. He was made a Deacon by the Bishop of Bangor for St. Asaph in 1914 and ordained Priest by the Bishop of St . Asaph in 1915. He was Chaplain and Assistant Master of Oswestry Grammar School, from 1914 to 1916.
He became a Temporary Chaplain to the Royal Navy. He served on H.M.S. Astroea in 1916. He was accidentally killed at the age of 29. He is buried in Archangel Allied Cemetery, Russian Federation B.14. H.M. Hospital Ship Garth Castle was built by Barclay Curle and Company of Glasgow in 1910 for the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company. She was commissioned in November 1914. She was part of the North Russian Expeditionary Force in 1918 - 1919.
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Lodge of St Oswald No. 1124 E.C. | Shropshire |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
23rd July 1918 | - | - |
Listed as a 28 year old Clerk in Holy Orders and resident at Oswestry at the time of his initiation in 1918. He advanced no higher degree than that of Entered Apprentice. The contribution record shows he was: "Killed in Action Aug 1919."
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley