Reference WMO/142016
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THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF / HENRY ROBERT MILNER, LATE MAJOR GENERAL IN THE ARMY / AND FORMERLY LIEUTENANT COLONEL OF HER MAJESTY’S 94TH REGIMENT. / HE WAS THE YOUNGEST AND LAST SURVIVING SON OF THE LATE CHARLES MILNER / OF PRESTON HALL IN THIS PARISH, BY HARRIETT, HIS WIFE / THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE SIR JOHN DIXON DYKE, BART / OF LULLINGSTONE CASTLE IN THIS COUNTY / HE WAS BORN AT PRESTON HALL, ON THE 29TH DAY OF JANUARY 1805, / AND DIED AT PORTSMOUTH IN THE 50TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. / MAJOR GENERAL MILNER ENTERED THE ARMY ON THE 7TH FEBRUARY 1822 / HE JOINED THE 94TH REGIMENT IN 1828, AND FROM THA PERIOD / SERVED UNINTERRUPTEDLY WITH IT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, / CEYLON, AND THE FAR EAST INDIES, / UNTIL THE RETURN OF THE REGIMENT FROM MADRAS IN JUNE 1854. / HE COMMANDED THE REGIMENT FOR 14 YEARS / AND WAS EMPLOYED ON THE STAFF OF THE MADRAS ARMY FOR 5 YEARS, / HIS BROTHER OFFICERS TESTIFY TO THE MANY ESTIMABLE QUALITIES / OF THEIR LATE COMMANDING OFFICER AND FRIEND. BY UNITING WITH HIS RELATIVES / IN DEDICATING THIS TABLET TO HIS MEMORY.
Maj-Gen H. R. Milner
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