Early life Terence Alan Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India on 16 April 1918 during the British Raj, the son of an Irish father, Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA (1890–1969), a regimental sergeant-major in the British Indian Army,Encyclopedia of British Humorists vol. I- Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, ed. Steven H. Gale, Garland Publishing Inc., 1996, p. 764 and English mother, Florence Mary Winifred (née Kettleband; 1893–1990). He spent his childhood in Poona and later in Rangoon, capital of British Burma. He was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and later at St Paul's High School, Rangoon. His father remained in the Indian Army after the end of the First World War, steadily promoted till "the family's lifestyle became almost lavish"; Milligan considered that "My old man lived the life of a gentleman on sergeant's pay".
Early life Terence Alan Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India on 16 April 1918 during the British Raj, the son of an Irish father, Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA (1890–1969), a regimental sergeant-major in the British Indian Army,Encyclopedia of British Humorists vol. I- Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, ed. Steven H. Gale, Garland Publishing Inc., 1996 p. 764 and English mother, Florence Mary Winifred (née Kettleband; 1893–1990). He spent his childhood in Poona and later in Rangoon, capital of British Burma. He was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and later at St Paul's High School, Rangoon His father remained in the Indian Army after the end of the First World War steadily promoted till "the family's lifestyle became almost lavish"; Milligan considered that "My old man lived the life of a gentleman on sergeant's pay".