SBS In World War Two
By Godfrey Basil Courtney
Fred Milner
John Robertson

Fred Milner

Frederick Stanley Milner
Major
STS 103 21.11.1941 (explosives instructor)

born 26.3.1916 Birmingham,England
Dorsetshire Regiment
SOE February 1941 (Lt)
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Frederick Stanley Milner was commended by Peter Wilkinson for his work with the Czechoslovakian party some of whom would go on to assassinate Heydrich . Major Milner gave instruction on the burial of the canasters timed in different terrain at night under attack . After instructing the fledgling OSS at STS 103 he gave instruction in North Africa and Sicily before being dropped into the Karen Hills as part of operation Character in a Jedburgh team. He was a fearless leader winning the Military Cross then being strongly recommended for a second immediate M.C. Post 1945 he held high rank in the second Burma rifles ..
 
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