William Chalmers Milne

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William Chalmers Milne

Argylls

1/7th Batt. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
He is remembered with honour on the Scottish National War Memorial, the Congregational Church Memorial and Helensburgh War Memorial, Column 3 Line 20.

The family home was at 43, West King Street, Helensburgh. The son of James Milne (mason) and Cecilia Milne.
Siblings: William had two brothers, Robert and Alexander (too young to fight), and sisters, Cecilia and Margaret.
 William Milne was born at Portsoy in Banff and moved to Helensburgh, the eldest of a family of five, where his father was a mason. It would appear that he enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders immediately on leaving school.
William died, killed by a sniper, at Arras. He was 19 years old.
The inscription on his headstone reads: 'Until He Come'.