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224907 Able Sea. Joseph Alexander Miller Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve Hood Battalion from:St Margarets Rd, Scotswood, Newcastle Upon Tyne (d.4th Feb 1917) My great granddad, Joe Miller, first enlisted for the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers on 4th of September 1914 as private 10696. He transferred to the RNVR on the 7th of September 1914 and joined Hood Battalion two days later. He was at Antwerp and must have managed to get out before the rest were interned for the rest of the war. He then went to Gallipoli where he was wounded with shrapnel in both his legs and was hospitalised in Malta. He rejoined Hood Battalion on the 24th of July 1915 but then had yellow jaundice. He rejoined Hood Battalion on the 2nd of December 1915 and was transferred to base depot at Mudros. He stayed there until arriving back in England from the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Forces on the 22nd of August 1916. He was drafted for the BEF on the 9th of October and joined Hawke Battalion on the 26th of November 196. He died on the 4th of February 1917 and is buried in Queens Cemetery Bucquoy, France. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please put first part of your email, (before the @ sign) in the first box, and the second part in the second box. Do not include @, it is automatic. Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.**