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MILLIKEN, Robert Hilditch
(Service number 6/2201)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	31/03/1873	Place of Birth	Ballycarry, County Antrim, Ireland

Enlistment Information

Date	14 July 1915	Age	42 years 3 months
Address at Enlistment	Arthur Street, Timaru
Occupation	Storekeeper
Previous Military Experience	Hanmer Rifle Club - 3 years
Marital Status	Married. Six children
Next of Kin	Mrs Helen Ann MILLIKEN (wife), Arthur Street, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 9 inches. Weight 143 lbs. Chest measurement 32½ -35 inches. complexion fair. Eyes brown. Hair brown. Sight & hearing both good. Colour vision correct. Limbs well formed. full & perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. Heart & lungs normal. Teeth false upper & lower. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. good bodily & mental health. No slight defects.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	5th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date
Transport	Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Balkan (Gallipoli); Egyptian; Egyptian Expeditionary; Western European.
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	19 November 1917	Reason	Being no longer physically fit for War Service on account of pre-enlistment disability aggravated by Active Service.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	24 August 1954	Age	80 years
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 25 August 1954
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	General Section, Row 57, Plot 1258
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert Hilditch Milliken was born on 31 March 1872 at Ballygarry, County Antrim, Ireland, the son of Catherine Milliken and Robert Montgomery. This married man, the father of six children, two years and 280 days of war service, the majority abroad, before he was discharged following the aggravation of a pre-enlistment disability. He married Helen Ann McDonald on 30 April 1902 at Hanmer Springs, New Zealand. They had the following children - Elizabeth Mary Hellen Milliken born on 1 December 1902 at Hanmer Springs, Duncan Hilditch Milliken born on 26 February 1904 at Hanmer Springs, Margaret Ann Milliken born on 23 March 1905 at Hanmer Springs, Mary Janet Milliken born on 18 March 1907 at Hanmer Springs, donald McDonald Milliken born on 13 April 1910 at Timaru, and John McFarlane Milliken born on 6 August 1912 at Timaru.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [15 August 2016]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ ref. AABK 18805 W5549 0081168) [16 August 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [15 August 2016]; Timaru Herald, 25 August 1954 (Timaru District Library) [15 August 2016]; Sun, 6 September 1915, Star, 23 November 1915, 22 October 1917 (Papers Past) [15 August 2016]; Probate record (Archives NZ/FamilySearch) [18 August 2016]

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