Harold John Milford (16 August 1914 – 6 April 1944), was a British Douglas Boston medium bomber observer who was taken prisoner during the Second World War.

At the height of the Battle of Britain he enlisted in the Royal Air Force in the summer of 1940 as an aircraftman aircrew candidate with the service number 1375447.

He was sent to Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland) where he quickly met Johnny Williams who he'd known earlier in his service and made friends with Tony Hayter who lived in the same accommodation block.

[7] Milford escaped from the exposed tunnel mouth into the woods with Sandy Gunn and John F Williams,[8] although on the afternoon of 27 March 1944 after surviving the freezing temperatures and blizzards they were recaptured in the vicinity of Żagań and taken to the local civil prison.

Milford's cell occupants were Cyril Swain, Mike Casey, Tom Leigh, Jack Grisman, Ian Cross, Sandy Gunn, Patrick Langford and George Wiley.

[10][11] Early on the morning of 6 April 1944 Tony Bethell heard a truck arrive at the prison and then six names being called out,[12][13] Denys Street, Neville McGarr, Jack Grisman, Sandy Gunn, Harold Milford and John F Williams were taken away.