Herbert Milne Explained

Herbert Milne
Fullname:	Herbert Eric Day Milne
Nickname:	Boxer
Birth Date:	8 February 1884
Birth Place:	Benalla, Victoria
Death Place:	Colombo, Sri Lanka
Height:	183 cm
Weight:	76 kg
Position:	Midfielder
Statsend:	1912
Repstatsend:	1908
Years1:	1902–1910
Games Goals1:	122 (69)
Years2:	1911–1912
Games Goals2:	31 (14)
Games Goalstotal:	153 (83)
Sooyears1:	1908
Sooteam1:	Victoria
Soogames Goals1:	3 (1)
Careerhighlights:	2× VFL premiership player: 1904, 1905 2× Fitzroy Club Champion: 1908, 1910

Herbert "Boxer" Milne (8 February 1884 – 20 December 1930) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1900s.

Family

The son of John Milne (1855-1921),^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} and Mary Lavinia Milne, née Landorf,^{[5] [6]} Herbert Milne was born at Benalla, Victoria on 8 February 1884.

One of his two brothers, Hector Norman Milne (1880-1960), who played two seasons (1899-1900) with Richmond and two seasons with North Melbourne (1902-1903) in the VFA, enlisted in the First AIF (Service no.953) and lost an eye from a bayonet wound whilst serving.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

Football

Fitzroy

A follower, Milne had a distinguished career at Fitzroy where he won best and fairest awards in both 1908 and 1910. As part of a strong Fitzroy side he played in four successive Grand Finals, winning back to back flags in 1904 and 1905. He was also a Victorian interstate representative and appeared in the Australasian Championship, which took place at Melbourne in 1908.^{[11] [12]}

South Melbourne

Milne crossed to South Melbourne in 1911.

"After an internal political dispute in the summer of [late] 1910, Milne was one of ten Fitzroy players to leave for other clubs." — Donald (2005), p.59.

In 1912, he played in their Grand Final loss to Essendon. He suffered a knee injury in this game and retired as a result.

Military service

Milne enlisted in the First AIF in July 1915,^[13] and served overseas with the 14th Field Ambulance.^[14] In late 1917 suffered serious wounds when hit by machine gun bullets in his left thigh.^[15]

Death

An employee of the Vacuum Oil Company, he died at sea near Colombo, Sri Lanka when returning to Australia on the P & O's S.S. Moldavia,^[16] from a business trip to England.^[17] He was buried at sea, near Columbo.^{[18] [19]}

See also

• 1908 Melbourne Carnival

References

• League Football: The South Melbourne Team, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 13 June 1908), p.25.
• J.W., "Obituaries", The Australasian, (Saturday, 17 January 1931), p.41.
• First World War Nominal Roll: Private Herbert Milne (7886), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Embarkation Roll: Private Herbert Milne (7886), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
• First World War Service Record: Private Herbert Milne (7886), National Archives of Australia.
• Book: Donald, Chris. Fitzroy: For the Love of the Jumper. 2005. Pan Australia. 9781877029189.

Notes and References

1. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203965150 Deaths: Milne, The Age, (Monday, 25 April 1921), p.1.
2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1751062 Deaths: Milne, The Argus, (Tuesday, 26 April 1921), p.1.
3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83948637 Personal, The Zeehan and Dundas Herald, (Thursday, 28 April 1921), p.2.
4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article249943125 Comrade John Milne Dead: The Passing of a Good Laborite, The (Melbourne) Labor Call, (Thursday, 28 April 1921), p.3.
5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60094145 Marriages: Milne—Landorf, The Illustrated Australian News, (Wednesday, 24 December 1879), p.206.
6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244820377 Death Notices: Milne, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Tuesday, 28 January 1936), p.20.
7. http://www.thevfaproject.org/pages/Players/Milne,_Hector.php Hector Milne, at The VFA Project.
8. http://www.thevfaproject.org/pages/Players/Milne,__NM03.php "Milne, _NM03", at The VFA Project.
9. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103263381 North Melbourne v. Richmond: A Good Game Marred by Bad Umpiring, The North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Advertiser, (Friday, 6 June 1902), p.3.
10. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154553240 Footballers in Action: Hector Milne, The Winner, (Wednesday, 6 December 1916), p.8.
11. Donald (2005), pp.58–59.
12. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154553240 Footballers in Action: Boxer Milne, The Winner, (Wednesday, 6 December 1916), p.8.
13. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242366283 Old Footballer Enlists, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Monday, 19 July 1915), p.6.
14. Nominal Roll.
15. News: PRIVATE HERBERT MILNE. . The Ballarat Courier . VII . Victoria, Australia . 1 November 1917 . 4.
16. http://www.pandosnco.co.uk/moldavia.html ss Moldavia (1922—1938), pandosnco.co.uk.
17. [Wallace Sharland|Sharland, W.S.]
18. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128959672 Died at Sea: Passenger for Melbourne, The (Adelaide) News, (Tuesday, 30 December 1930), p.1.
19. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242879727 Deaths: Milne, The (Melbourne) Herald, Tuesday, 6 January 1931), p.15.