HULL’S FIRST WAR CASUALTY. BORN HULL, ON 16/11/1884. FOURTH SON OF GEORGE MILEHAM (1855-1932) & MARY ANN CAVE (1860-1896), OF 7 , MIDDLEBURG STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS.
HE WAS EDUCATED AT CONSTABLE STREET SCHOOL, HULL. HE WAS OF A SUPERIOR, HIGH STANDARD, FOR READING, WRITING AND MATHS. HOWEVER, THIS DID NOT STOP HIM BEING SENT TO THE CASTLE HOWARD REFORMATORY SCHOOL, AT WELBURN, YORKSHIRE, FOR 4 YEARS AND 217 DAYS. HE WAS DISCHARGED ON 15/11/1903.
HE JOINED THE ARMY IN 1903. HE ENLISTED IN THE QUEEN MARY’S OWN HUSSARS. SERVED AS A BANDSMAN, IN EGYPT & INDIA. RETIRED IN JANUARY 1914, AT TIDWORTH, UK AND JOINED THE ARMY RESERVES.
HE WAS WORKING IN GOOLE, WHEN WAR BEGAN IN 1914. HE RE-ENLISTED ON THE 4TH AUGUST 1914. SENT TO FRANCE ON 13TH AUGUST 1914 . HE FOUGHT AT THE BATTLE OF MONS. HE WAS REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING ON THE 24TH AUGUST 1914, FROM THE RETREAT FROM MONS.
HE WAS UNMARRIED. AGED 30. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN “THE HULL DAILY MAIL” NEWSPAPER, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 23RD NOVEMBER 1915. AND ALSO REPORTED IN “THE HULL TIMES”, ON 20TH NOVEMBER 1915.
HE IS BURIED IN A SOLITARY GRAVE AT MONTIGNIES-SUR-ROC CHURHYARD, FRANCE.
NOTE: HIS BROTHER, PTE, HAROLD MILEHAM, NUMBER, 1833, 5TH KING’S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY, WAS WOUNDED IN THE FOOT AND WAS PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 23/11/1915. HAROLD MILEHAM DIED IN 1920, AGED 30.
