Harold Ernest's Story.
News Report
A Chivalrous Spirit
The sad intelligence has been received that Lance-Corpl. Harold Ernest Milligan was killed in action on March 28. He was mobilised on August 4, 1914, with the Territorials, A.S.C., had been over two years in France, and was recently transferred to the Anson Battalion, R.N.D, attached to the King’s Liverpool Regt. He was 32 years of age and was for ten years in the Water Department of the Liverpool Corporation. He was also a member of the Broadsmith Masonic Lodge (3593). He attended Seacombe Presbyterian Church and held several important offices. He was the fifth son of Mr and Mrs Alexander Milligan, 30, Sandrock Road, Liscard.
Preaching at the Seacombe Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening the Rev. C.C. Lundie made feeling allusion to the death of Lance-Corpl. Milligan. He said: “We shall miss him also sorely as a worker. We shall miss him also as a man. He was the soul of honour, he had a chivalrous spirit, and not only is the loss ours, but our country has lost in him a man of a fine type who would have made a useful citizen. He was valued at his office in the Liverpool Corporation. Many will miss him as a sportsman, for he was a good sample of muscular Christianity, being a member of a local rowing club, while of the loss to his home, to parents, brothers, and sisters we dare not speak.”