An%C3%ADbal Milhais


Anbal Augusto Milhais GOTE was the most decorated Portuguese soldier of World War I and the only Portuguese soldier awarded the highest national honour, the Military Order of the Tower and of the Sword, of Valour, Loyalty and Merit on the battlefield instead of the usual public ceremony in Lisbon.

Milhais was a farmer, born on July 9, 1895, in the small village of Valongo de Milhais, a parish of Mura, in north of Portugal. On July 30, 1915, he was drafted into the Infantry of Bragana. In 1917 he was mobilized to join the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps. He arrived in France in the same year, as a member of the Trs os Montes brigade from the 2nd Infantry Division of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps. The 2nd Infantry Division was deployed to the front line.

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