210605 Pte. Robert John Milligan British Army 2/3rd Btn Royal Irish Regiment from:Pernau St. Belfast Granda Robert Milligan was in a pub and heard the marching feet. It was the volunteers shouting "join us". This he did. He came home & told my Gran "I've tuk the king's shillun" she replied "go down the marra (to-morrow) & tell them you were drunk". He did that and was on the 1st shipment out! Granda was a p.o.w. for most of the war. On his release the Germans stamped "kaput" on his papers. He had chronic TB & had a medical pension, till his death in 1922. Plus this my Gran had 3 more children-girl twins and a boy they all died in infancy riddled with TB. They had 2 pre-war children who survived. One was my mother the other my uncle, who went on to serve in WW2.
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