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The fairways, greens and sometimes the rough of the Brora and Minchinhampton Golf Courses. As the commanding officer of the Wessex Yeomanry and full Colonel with the wider Yeomanry.
The village Hall at Beverston, being the Chair for many years, from branch meetings of the local N.F.U. In the roles of High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Gloucestershire, from the Stewards Room at the National Hunt courses of Stratford, Warwick and Worcester.
At meetings of the regional Historic Houses Association, as well as for many years a member of the HHA Executive Committee.
From the squash court and the attics of Chavenage, where he established his beloved model railway, though most notably in his role of guide, where he felt it was his privilege to show so many around his home.
He touched so many lives and his legacy at Chavenage endures, with his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren liv- ing on the estate, alongside the many visitors, functions and events at the house even to the present day with the current filming of ‘Rivals’ at the house.
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It was whilst serving as a service fund accountant that he was selected as possible Officer material, and as with everything Paul did during his Army Career, he put his heart and soul into his Officer Training. He was commissioned and posted to 40 Regiment, Royal Artillery.
The highlight for Paul in his capacity as a unit Admin Officer was when he was posted to The King’s Royal Hussars as the Unit Admin Officer in the rank of Major, he felt he was back home once again.
After leaving the Army, having served for 39 continuous years from Junior Leaders Regiment through to the Adjutants General Corps, Paul took up a number of posts working as Chief Finance Officer for security Companies. This took him to a number of different Countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, finally returning home to Tidworth where his journey began so many years before.
Paul is survived by Sharon, his wife and companion for 53 years, and his sons Gareth and David, and grandchildren Ellie and Theo. He will be dearly missed by all who knew him. JG
Major P P Millings
11thHussars(PAO)–1969 TheRoyalHussars(PWO)-1969–1990 Royal Army Pay Corps - 1990 – 1992 AdjutantGeneralCorps1992–2005
Paul Millings was a loyal and conscientious member of the Regiment and an integral part of the Regimental family. He joined the 11th Hussars shortly before amalgamation with the 10th Royal Hussars in October 1969; he went on to complete 21 years of Regimental duty.
Paul soon settled into Regimental life, and it was evident that he had a flair for most sports, willing to have a go at anything to support both Squadron and Regiment teams. His passion of course was Rugby and Golf in that order.
Paul was always driven to improve his knowledge and Learning, and once he had successfully completed both a gun- nery and D&M instructor’s course he enrolled as a student with the Open University completing many courses including Maths and Social Science, which would hold him in good stead in his extended Army career.
Once Paul decided that his Regimental career was coming to end, it was time to put his Open University qualifications to good use; he made the decision to transfer to the Army Pay Corps as a Service Fund Accountant.
Captain M D Mylchreest Légion d’honneur
HampshireRegiment1942–1943 DevonshireRegimentandSomersetLightInfantry1944–1946 RoyalSussexRegiment1946–1947 6RegimentRoyalHorseArtillery1947-1948 14th/20thKing’sHussars1949–53
Michael David Mylchreest was born on 3rd February 1924, the son of a protestant pastor who had served as a British army chaplain in Belgium during the First World War. Michael’s uncle David had been killed in 1916, aged 18, during the Battle of the Somme so his parents gave him
the middle name David, which he preferred.
At the age of 17, David skipped school and went to the local army recruitment bureau in Exeter and signed up. Returning to school, he told his headmaster he had enlisted. “We’ll see
about that; I’m calling your father.” He did but David’s father replied: “Tell my son congratulations” and hung up the phone.
After two years in the Home Guard David commissioned into the Devonshire Regiment and landed in Normandy on 12th June 1944, he was attached to the 4th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry and took part in some of the fiercest fighting of the Normandy campaign with the 43rd Wessex Division around the towns of Argentan, Caen and Falaise, as well as the weeks- long battle for the strategically vital Hill 112 and Mont Pincon, both near Caen.
He later recounted: “My first engagement with the enemy was at Maltot south of Caen at the foot of Hill 112. After that
