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Cpl. William Granthan Millen
British Army 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
from:Croydon
(d.9th Apr 1917)
William Granthan Millen was one of my great uncles. A brother of my father's mother. Born in 1886, he was the son of George and Ellen Millen of 62, Oakfield Road, Croydon. He was educated at Oxford County School after which he became a journalist finally becoming editor of the Weekly Journal until enlisting with the Wiltshires in 1914. During his time with the Wiltshires he served in Galipoli and then in France.
The regimental diary for the action of the 9th April tells us that - "At 11.38am the 21st Brigade attacked with the 2nd Wltshire Regiment on their right and the 18th Kings (Liverpool) Regiment on the left with the 19th Manchester Regiment in support. - The distance between the Battalion and their objective (the Hindenburg Line) varied between 2000 and 2500 yards. - Considerable hostile shelling was experienced throughout the advance which became more intense as it proceeded. To reach the objective, 2 sunken roads had to be crossed where heavy machine gun fire was encountered. - The advance continued right up to the enemy wire by which time the ranks were consideraby depleted. It was found that though damaged the wire was not cut sufficiently for the troops to enter the enemy trenches. - Shelter was sought in available shell holes but finally the troops had to fall back to the sunken road running from Neuville Vitasse to St Martin sur Coseul where they dug in."
Total casualties for the action included the deaths of 2 Captains, 12 Subalterns and 328 Other Ranks, Great Uncle William being amongst them. His grave can be found in the Neuville-Vitasse Road War Cemetery to the south east of Arras.
Pte. A. S. H. Miller
British Army 5th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
I have come across a pen sketch of A.S.H. Miller along with some notes about him. The sketch was apparently done at Mt. St. Eloi in 1918. The notes say 5th Northumberland Fusiliers but also mention a Black Watch cap badge.
Pte Adam Roy Miller
U.S. Army 321 Field Artillery
from:Clarion, PA
(d.1918)
This was my grandmother's brother who was in killed in action in WW1.
Pte. Albert Miller
British Army 9th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Salford, Lancashire
(d.1st Nov 1918)
Albert Miller was husband to Lucy Adela Miller and father to four young children. He was killed in action.
Pte. Alexander Miller
British Army 12th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Ardenlea Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow
(d.1st January 1916)
Alexander Miller was the son of Alexander and Jessie Donaldson Miller of 4 Ardenlea Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow and was my great uncle. He served with the 12th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry and died of wounds on 1st January 1916. Alexander is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. ‘There is a link death cannot sever, love and memory last forever.’
Alfred Henry "Pops" Miller
British Army Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Actontown, London
Alfred Henry Miller was born 1883 in London, England. He and his wife, Beatrice Anne Woods, immigrated to New Westminster, British Columbia with their young children in the 1920's. After immigrating to Canada, Alfred worked for the CN Railway.
Alf or 'Pops" as all his grandchildren called him, was a slight man of 5 foot 2 inches, and he fought in 12 battles in the Great War. He was wounded by gunfire in the leg and hip, recovered and returned to battle. He lost a finger during battle. Pops was a happy gentleman, especially when he was surrounded by his loving children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. He often sang us sweet Cockney songs like 'Apples and Pears, up the Stairs" and "up came the nurse with a red hot poultice....".
Alfred is remembered by his surviving grandchildren in British Columbia.
Pte. Arthur Miller
British Army Manchester Regiment
from:Manchester
(d.4th Aug 1916)
Arthur Miller was a 40-year-old Yorkshireman from Otley in the West Riding, father of six children, the youngest 2 years old. His work had taken him to Manchester where he answered the call to arms, enlisting in the Manchester Pals. On 4th August 1916, he was reported 'missing, presumed killed'. No known grave but his name is recorded on the memorial at Thiepval, as well as in Otley parish church.
Pte. Arthur J. Miller
British Army Suffolk Regiment
Arthur Miller survived the war. No other information at present.
Sgt. Benjamin Robertson Miller
British Army 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Dundee
(d.23rd Oct 1916)
Born Benjamin Robertson in Dundee, Scotland in 1882, son of John Robertson and Lizzie Robertson (nee Miller). Seems to have changed his name to his mother's maiden name, Miller, when he enlisted in the Middlsex Regiment in 1903 in London. At the time of his attestation into the 1st Battalion, he annotated in his 'small book' that his mother and father were both dead, and that his only relative was his cousin, Miss B. Goldie of 63 Park Road, Regents Park, London.
Benjamin served as a regular soldier in the East Indies and in Malta. After serving as a Sergeant Instructor at the Infantry Training Centre, The Bullring, at Etaples, France, he was sent to the 2nd Battalion on the Somme, arriving as a Platoon Sergeant with C Company on 10th October 1916. He was killed in Spectrum Trench, near Trones Wood, on 23rd October 1916, and is listed on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 12D & 13B.
Benjamin was engaged to Rose Staples, of Southampton, and she later married and was my grandmother. I have in my possession his last letter to Rose, and his army paybook and WW1 Medals. I am trying to find any of Benjamin's family/relatives, as on the 1891 Scotland Census there appears to have been four brothers and a sister living with him in his father's household.
L/Cpl. Bertie Miller
British Army 2nd/5th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Scalford, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
(d.2nd Oct 1917)
Lance Corporal Miller was the eldest son of John and Emma Miller of Debdale Farm. Whilst engaged in fighting at Hill 37 near Ypres he was severely wounded and taken to No. 3 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station at Remy Sidings, Poperinghe. This was where Bertie Miller died aged 19 from gunshot wounds to the head. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Pte. Charles Fitzhardinge Miller
British Army 12th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Frankton, Warwickshire
(d.18th August 1916)
Lsgt. Cuthbert Miller
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blaydon
Cuthbert Miller suffered Shellshock in 1916
Pte. Edward Miller
British Army 8th Battalion South Lancashire
from:Birkenhead, Wirral
(d.10th July 1916)
Sgt. Edward Miller
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Beer, Devon
(d.6th Nov 1917)
Farrier Sergeant Edward Miller is buried in Beer Churchyard in Devon
Edwin John Miller
British Army Middlesex Regt
from:Hove, Sussex
(d.Nov 1917)
Rfmn. Eli Miller
British Army 7th (Service) Btn. King Royal Rifle Corps
from:Sherlock St. Birmingham
(d.6th Jul 1915)
Eli Miller, a tailor from Birmingham signed up for service with the Army and was sent to Winchester to begin training and was eventually taken on strength of the 7th (Service) Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps. He embarked for France on 19th May 1915 travelling by train through France into Belgium where his Battalion took up positions in the Ypres salient.
He is listed as having died on 6th July 1915 whilst the Bataliotn was manning front line trenches opposite Bellewaarde Farm to the East of Railway Wood and is Commemorated at Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.
Pvt. Emmit Miller
United States Army Coy. K 106th Infantry Regiment
from:San Jacinto Co, TX
(d.28th Sep 1918)
Emmit Miller was drafted in September 1917 and was eventually assigned to Coy, K, 106th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division (O'Ryan's Division). He sailed in USS Matsuma on 6th of June 1918 from Norfolk News, VA. He was a replacement troop.
On 28th of September 1918, he was declared missing in action and a year later was declared dead. His name is on the monument of unrecovered losses at Bony, France. He was my grandfather's cousin.
Sgt. Ernest Miller
US Marine Corps 79th Company 6th Regiment
from:Fairview, Kansas
Ernest Miller served with the US Marine Corps. Sergeant Miller sailed to France on board the USS Henderson leaving 19th of January 1918 and arriving in France on 8th of February 1918. Sergeant Miller qualified as a Marksman in Boot Camp at Paris Island, 24th of August 1917.
Frederick Harry Miller
British Army
from:Hove, Sussex
Frederick Harry Miller
British Army Essex Regiment
Frederick Harry Miller served with the Essex Regtiment, he survived the War dying in 1928 at 35, he had been gassed several times in WW1. One of the others would be Horace Philip Miller killed July 1918 and the third brother whose first name is unknown. No one in the family, including their two neices knew their names so I think it time they were remembered somewhere.
Rfmn. Frederick Thomas Miller
British Army 21st Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Poplar, London
(d.14th Aug 1917)
Fred Miller died in France, about one mile from the border with Belgium, in August 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres (known as Passchendaele). This was another attempt to break through the German line of trenches and bring the war to an end. It did not succeed. The war continued for another 15 months.
Fred Miller was the oldest child of Henry and Elizabeth Miller, who lived in Poplar, in the East end of London. Henry was born in Poplar and worked as a painter, mainly in the shipbuilding yards in the dock area, but also in the building industry. His own father had been in the same trade, originally at Gravesend, in Kent, moving to Poplar in the early 1860s. Elizabeth was also born in the East end, but had been a domestic servant in the city centre. They married in 1896 and Fred was born on 28 June 1898.
When the war started in August 1914, Fred was 16. He would have been at work for two years. He now had four younger brothers - Thomas, Charles, Sidney and Henry, and a younger sister, Grace. Just before he joined the Army, he was working at a clothing shop in East India Dock Road. We do not know whether he volunteered for service or just waited for his turn to be ‘called up’ under the compulsory military service scheme introduced in 1916 but we know he was taken into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps as Rifleman 27542 of the 21st Battalion. He would have joined with no illusions – his mother’s brother, a very frequent visitor to the house, was a regular soldier and had been killed in the first few weeks of the war.
His Army record was probably destroyed along with thousands of others during the Second World War when a bomb hit the Army Records Centre but he would have done his basic training in England in 1916, and he certainly came home on leave before he went out to France. One of his brothers remembered him leaving, saying to them, ‘Look after Mother’. We know he died of wounds in No 11 Casualty Clearing Station near Godeswaersvelde (a French village one mile inside the Belgian border, near Hazebrouck) on 14 August 1917. He was 19 years old.
The family were told that he had been shot by a German sniper. The exact circumstances are not known but they understood that he was a Signaller, so he may have been out of the trench, working on telegraph lines. His battalion had fought in the second phase of the battle (Pilckem Ridge, which finished on 2 August) and was probably in preparation for the third phase of the battle in September. The Battalion War Diary records that 3 Officers and 26 Other Ranks were killed in August but gives no real clue as to how Fred received his deadly wounds. The Battalion was taken out of the front line on 6 August and returned on 10 August, spending the next three days ‘consolidating the line’ with various working parties. On the morning of the 14th, ‘a raid was attempted against enemy dug outs’ but the raiding party returned with only ‘slight casualties’. Fred may have been among them, or he may have been hit during one of the ‘working parties’ in the previous few days. He must have arrived in the Casualty Clearing Station within a few days of his death because the wounded who survived the first few days were sent to hospitals much further behind the lines. Thousands died, on both sides, in the September attack and if Fred had not been killed a few weeks earlier, he might well have been killed then.
The Cemetery where he is buried is one of the many smaller military cemeteries in that part of northern France – some 900 graves. It must have been very close to the Casualty Clearing Station. In 1917 the grave was marked with a wooden cross, and family were sent a photograph of it with very brief details written on the back. A little later, headstones were placed there with details of the dead and a short verse chosen by the family. The verse on his stone reads ‘How I miss the sunshine of your smile Mother’.
Back home, it was the custom for the bereaved family to put a little display in the window of their house – a picture of the soldier, some flowers, and a slogan, ‘For King and Country’. The Miller family did this too but, no royalists, made their slogan, ‘For Home and Country’. -
Pte. Frederick Miller
British Army 9th Btn. Black Watch
from:Yeovil, Somerset
(d.11th February 1916)
Frederick Miller was born Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire about 1898 to William Darling Miller and Elizabeth McWhirter. During WW1 he served with the 9th Battalion, Black Watch and died 11th off February 1916 age 18 years and is remembered on the Loos Memorial in France.
Sjt. G. Miller
Army 2/7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Gnr. George William Miller
50th Brigade, A Bty.
from:Hove, Sussex
(d.15th Nov 1917)
George William Miller is one of 3 brothers to died in WW1 he was the eldest born 1889. He died in Nov 1917 whilst serving with the RFA, his brothers Edwin John Miller born 1891 died Nov 1917 and Horace Philip Miller born 1895 died July 1918, both were in the Middx regt. Their brother Frederick Harry Miller born 1892 died in 1928 having been gassed 3 times in the trenches. Their father had predeceased them aged 35 in 1906. Their mother lived to 1956 but was never a happy woman. God bless them all.
Pte George Raimes Miller
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:129, Wharton St., South Shields.
(d.14th April 1918)
Miller, George Raimes, Private 19/1495, Killed in action on 14th April 1918, aged 25 years. Son of William and Eleanor Miller, of 129, Wharton St., South Shields. .
Remembered on the Pozieres Memorial panel 16 to 18.
From the Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour
A/Sjt. George Murphy Miller
British Army 2nd Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Regiment
from:Dundee, Scotland
George Miller was born on the 23rd of November 1886. I have no information other than the fact I am in possession of this gentleman's War Medal and the information on it from my father's collection of medals and other research.
Pte. George James Miller
British Army 10th Battalion Devonshire Regiment
According to Private George Miller's Medal Rolls Index Card, he served in the 10th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment and entered the French theatre on 22nd of September 1915, thereby qualifying for the 1914-15 Star. The card also indicates that he was discharged on 26th of February 1918 and that he was awarded the Silver War Badge. Each of his Service Medal and Awards Rolls confirm Private Miller's discharge date. According to a Roll of Individuals Entitled to the War Badge, No. 11738 Private Miller was awarded War Badge No. 401315, his cause of discharge listed as "XVI Wounded 23 2(b)", King's Regulations.
The 10th (Service) Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment initially landed in France, but was diverted to Salonika (in response to a request from Greece) under threat by Bulgaria. During this period, the 10th Battalion continuously patrolled and skirmished in vicinity of Dorian and the Bulgarian position at Petit Coronne and made two unsuccessful and costly attacks in 1917. Continuing from this source, during the second British attack in 1917, the Devons "were the only British troops to have taken and held part of the enemy front line", but were recalled when the general attack failed.
Based upon his discharge date, it is apparent that Private Miller was probably wounded in 1917. Unfortunately, attempts to access either his Service Record or Pension Record were unsuccessful. It is very possible that these records were destroyed in the Second World War. In addition to the 1914-15 Star and the War Badge, he was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Lt. Godfrey Lyall Miller
British Army 11th Field Coy Royal Engineers
(d.14th Sep 1914)
Lieutenant Godfrey Lyall Miller was killed in action at Port Arcy. He left a diary later published privately detailing his military service from the start of the war.
Sgt. Henry Miller
British Army 1st Btn. Cameron Highlanders
(d.9th May 1915)
Horace Philip Miller
British Army Middlesex Regt
from:Hove, Sussex
(d.Jul 1918)
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