| This is the first attempt to detail the life of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Thomas Milnes-Gaskell and the information will be the subject of many revisions and corrections as more details are added.
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| Charles Thomas Milnes-Gaskell was the son of Major Evelyn Milnes-Gaskell and Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes-Gaskell. Evelyn Milnes-Gaskell and Constance Harriet Stuart Knox were married on 7th November 1905 in St George’s, Hanover Square, London.
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| Constance Harriet Stuart Knox was the daughter of the Earl of Ranfurly and the brother of Viscount Northland who died in World War One. She was brought up in Northland House in Dungannon.
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| Charles Thomas Milnes-Gaskell was born on 5th November 1908 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire. He was the nephew of Viscount Northland.
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| Known family: Evelyn Milnes-Gaskell, Constance Milnes-Gaskell, Charles Thomas Milnes-Gaskell (born 5th November 1908).
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| Charles Thomas Milnes-Gaskell married Lady Ethel Patricia Hare on 12th November 1936, possibly in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. She was the daughter of Richard Granville Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel.
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| Known family: Charles Thomas Milnes-Gaskell, Ethel Patricia Milnes-Gaskell, James Milnes-Gaskell (born about 1937), Andrew Milnes-Gaskell (born about 1939), Thomas Milnes-Gaskell1 (born about 1942).
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| It is thought the family lived in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
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| Like his late uncle, Viscount Northland, Charles Milnes-Gaskell joined the Coldstream Guards.
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| Lieutenant Colonel Charles Milnes-Gaskell became part of the Special Operations Executive – The S.O.E. conducted espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe
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| Lieutenant Colonel Milnes-Gaskell was liaison officer with the N.K.V.D. The NKVD was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union, which would have been responsible, amongst other things, for Russian spies.
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| Lieutenant Colonel Charles Thomas Milnes-Gaskell, died on the 5th November 1943. He was killed in an air crash whilst returning from Moscow. It was his 35th birthday.
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| Lieutenant Colonel Charles Thomas Milnes-Gaskell is buried in Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery in Egypt. His inscription reads: KILLED ON HIS BIRTHDAY IN AIR ACCIDENT COMING HOME FROM MOSCOW.
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| Lieutenant Colonel Charles Milnes-Gaskell is commemorated locally on the Memorial window in St Anne’s Church in Dungannon and on Dungannon War Memorial.
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| Lieutenant Colonel Charles Milnes-Gaskell is also commemorated on the World War Two Memorial in Holy Trinity Church, Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
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| Lieutenant Colonel Charles Milnes-Gaskell is also commemorated on a separate family memorial plaque in Holy Trinity Church, Much Wenlock, Shropshire. It reads:
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| ‘Also his grandson, Charles Thomas Milnes Gaskell, Lieutenant Colonel, Coldstream Guards, born 5th November 1908.Killed in an air accident 5th November 1943. Buried in Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery. ‘He made perfect in a short time fulfilled a long ime.’ Book of Wisdom Chapter 4, Verse 13.’
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| The CWGC record Lieutenant Colonel Charles Thomas Milnes Gaskell as the son of Evelyn and Constance Milnes Gaskell. He is also recorded as the husband of Patricia Milnes Gaskell (nee Hare) of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
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| It seems doubtful Lieutenant Colonel Charles Thomas Milnes Gaskell ever lived in the Dungannon area.
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