Second Lieutenant Roy Denzil Pashley Milner

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Totley Hall, Yorkshire, 1st December 1902. Son of William Aldam Milner and Sarah Elizabeth Milner, of Titheacre, Baslow, Bakewell, Derbyshire. He was educated at Repton School, Derbyshire and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he received his commission in 22nd January 1913 into the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He went to France on 11th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th September 1914, aged 21, when the battalion was ordered to retake trenches taken by the Germans at the head of the Troyon Valley, France, during the Battle of the Aisne.

Buried: Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension, France. Plot 6. Row C. Grave 5.