245658 Pte. Matthew Miller British Army 4th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment from:Liverpool My father Matthew Miller, was born in 1885 and was conscripted into WWI with the East Lancashire Regiment. He was a middleweight boxer in the unit and got to the finals. He fought at Somme and told stories of the Labasse Canal and the mud. He was taken prisoner at Passchendaele and apparently saved the life of a POW at the POW camp from drowning. The German Camp Commander who was a brewmeister in Berlin said my father should come to Berlin after the war and drink beer. He was transferred to another camp under control of the Hungarians. He recalled an tragic incident of being in a shell hole with 24 other men and a a guy from Leeds said "eeh I could just eat a piece of my mams fat cake" when another shell blew up in the hole and out of the 24 men only three survived, my father was one of them.
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