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|Surname and forenames=Milligan Thomas
|Army number=14213676
|Rank=Sapper
|Decorations=Service Medals and awards.
|Date of birth=11/4/1922
|Age=(At time of death).
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Engineers 14/5/1942.  Basic Training Fort George, Inverness.  Posted 75th R.C. Company, Royal Engineers.  Posted to 507th Field Company, Royal Engineers on 20/12/1943.  Served Normandy - landed initially with Queen's Brigade of 7th Armoured Division.  Back in the UK worked on mine-clearing in Norfolk.  In 1946 posted to Biet Nabal RE Workshop in Palestine.  Joined the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (TA) following discharge from wartime service.
|Company/Battery=75th R.C. Company.  507th Field Company.  
|Platoon or other Sub-Unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Mine and bomb clearance.
|Joined Brigade=Probably at the time the Field Company joined the Brigade Group.
|Promotions=Corporal 27/4/1944, Sergeant.  Colour Sergeant with the TA post-war.
|Wounded=Yes - shrapnel and bayonet injuries.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 17/12/2006 in Bedford Hospital.
|Home address=Worked as an Apprentice Joiner at Lightbodys in Glasgow and lived in Sidney Street.  Keen violinist.  Post-war he studied journalism and worked in Glasgow, Ayr, Bletchley and Kempston.  Finally worked in London as Editor of Construction News Scotland.
}}