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John Henry Milson was born in Beverley the 20 Jan 1898 one of thirteen children born to John Carr and Fanny Milson (nee Baker) who married in Beverley in 1885. Fanny was from Leconfield and John was from Sheffield. He was a shoemaker. The family spent much of the 1890s living in Market Weighton before returning to Norton Street, Cartwright Lane, Beverley and then Minstermoorgate. In 1911 John was recorded an errand boy for a stationer.
John spent time before the war as a territorial soldier in the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, the Beverley Terriers. John joined the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and served as a private in the 9th and 10th Battalions that fought in various actions in France from 1915 to 1918. The Beverley Guardian of 17 Jul 1917 had a photo of John, wrongly labelled as “G. Milson” but also saying that he was a bugler. John was awarded the War and Victory Medals and discharged from the army on 16 Apr 1919.
On 14 Aug 1920 John married Annie Elizabeth Needham at Beverley Minster. They lived at West Terrace off Potter Hill. They had one child Frank born 1921. In1939 John was a plater’s labourer at the Beverley shipyard the family were living at 311 Grovehill Road. John died, aged 90, in Huntingdon in 1988, Annie died in 1983.
John is remembered on the St Andrew Street Street Shrine along with his brother George Milson who served in the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment.
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