The Anglia
Monday 10th January 1916: Private Bert Milliner of the 2nd
Bedfords is home at Biggleswade on ten days’ leave. He is an old militiaman and
enlisted in the 4th Bedfordshire Regiment practically a year ago. After
training at Dovercourt he went out in the early autumn to join the 2nd
Battalion. While serving with a bombing party in the Givenchy district he was
wounded in the shoulder and after being placed on a stretcher he was wounded in
the lower part of the body. His troubles did not end, for after a stay at the
base hospital he was being brought to England on the “Anglia” which struck a
mine in the Channel. Fortunately he was among those that were safely
transferred to the “Saint George”(1). After a lengthy stay in hospital at
Torquay, he was sufficiently well to come home on leave. He still walks very
lame, but is progressing. He is the possessor of a fine alpenstock, which he
secured from a Prussian Guardsman out in Flanders.
Source: Bedfordshire Standard 14th
January 1916
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