John Charles Milling

Died

30 March 1919

Age

Rank

District Inspector

Force

Royal Irish Constabulary

Cause

Homicide - Shot

Duty Status

Retired

Roll of Honour Citation

Died the day after being shot five times through the window of his home.

Roll of Honour Citation

Died the day after being shot five times through the window of his home.

Circumstances

Appointed as a Magistrate after a distinguished police career he was targeted in his home in Westport, Co. Mayo on 29 March when he was shot five times. Found wounded he died the following day from his injuries.

Shot five times by two men using revolvers to fire through the front window of his house on the Newport Road in his home town, when he entered the dining room to wind up the clock and adjust it to British Summer Time before going to bed.

Despite being tended to by a specialist doctor from Dublin and two local doctors, District Inspector Milling died the next day having lost too much blood.

He had been married for 14 years and had had three children, only two of whom were still living at the time of his death.