Richard Crompton Lees-Milne served in the Royal Army Service Corps as a Temporary Captain (91388). He was awarded the 1939-45 War Medal and 1939-45 Star.
Served in a range of places in the Middle East – Western Desert, Sudan, Crete, Syria, Tobruk - and was Mentioned in Despatches (Gazette info. 1594; 6/4/1944).
The younger son of George and Helen Lees-Milne of Wickhamford Manor, he lived in Weathervane Cottage, Manor Road, Wickhamford after the War.