INDENTM.M. London Gazette 15.6.1943. "Sergeant Alec Milner, Royal Regiment of Artillery" The recommendation states: "For conspicuous gallantry and outstanding devotion to duty during the Battle of Tamara March 5th. - 17th. 1943 During the period Sergeant Milner's Battery was almost constantly subjected to accurate observed counter-battery fire and was dive-bombed on eleven occasions. Sergeant Milner who was Battery NCO in charge of Signals, kept line communications from Battery Command Post through to Troop Command Posts throughout this period. Immediately a line was broken by enemy shell fire or bombing no matter how intense the shelling or bombing, he personally led his line party out and quickly re-established communications. So efficiently and conscientiously did he carry out his duty that on no occasion was the Battery Command Post in the position of not being able to get fire orders through to the troops".