Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- George Frederick Milligan -

ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY

Friday, February 2, 1917 Page 4

Ventnor Tribunal.

A meeting of the Tribunal was held on Tuesday, Mr. F. Blake, J.P., C.A., presiding, and there being also present Colonel Guild, C.C. (Military Representative), Dr. R. Robertson, J.P., C.C., and Messrs. E.G.H. Wetherick, C.C., G. Burroughs, Martin Draper, F.H. Sheppard, and the Clerk (Mr. H. Hughes Oakes).
A HARD CASE
Mr. H. Milligan, posting master and cab proprietor, wrote asking permission for the case of his son, Mr. G.F. Milligan, to be brought up again in order to get a further two months' extension. A long discussion, which to say the least was at times a little involved and difficult to follow, took place on the merits of the application.
The Clerk said the latest instructions were that men under 31 must not be exempted unless the strongest possible case could be made out in their behalf.
The Chairman: What is a strong case?
Mr. Burroughs: Mr. Milligan's an invalid.
Colonel Guild: you are taking a great responsibility if you refuse to the Army a fit man of 31.
No action was taken.

ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY

Friday, December 7, 1917 Page 2

Another war bereavement has befallen a Ventnor family this week. Information is to hand that Pte. Fred Milligan, 2nd Hants, was killed in action on Nov. 21st. He had been in the Army about nine months, and it will be remembered that he was given one or two periods of exemption by the Ventnor Tribunal. Pte. Milligan was the son of Mr. Harry Milligan, of the Posting Establishment, Dudley Road. He was a respected local man and a member of the P.S.A. Brotherhood. He leaves a wife and child.

ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY

Friday, December 14, 1917 Page 2

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MR. AND MRS. MILLIGAN and family wish to return heartfelt thanks for letters and other kind expressions of sympathy in their sad bereavement.
MRS. F. MILLIGAN thanks all friends for the many messages of condolence she has received in the death of her husband, Pte. F. Milligan.

ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY

Friday, December 14 1917 Page 2

Ventnor District Council.
CONDOLENCE.
The Chairman said he was sorry to say there were further reports of local men having been killed in action and died for their country, Rifleman Godsell, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Godsell, C.-S.-M. Jenkins, son of Sergt. and Mrs. C. Jenkins, who were killed in Palestine, Pte. Milligan, who they all knew, and Pte. Drudge. Nothing they could say could compensate the parents and relatives of those who had given their lives, but they offered them all the sincerest sympathy in their bereavement. The Councillors stood in their places as a mark of sympathy in their bereavement.
(not all the report has been transcribed)

ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY

Friday, November 19, 1920 Page 2

IN MEMORIAM
MILLIGAN. - In loving memory of my dear husband, George Frederick Milligan, who fell in action in France November 21st, 1917. - Absent from sight but to memory ever dear. - From his sorrowing wife and daughter Freda.