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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)
Pte. Horace Philip "Holly" Miller
13th Btn.
from:Hoxton, London
(d.20th Jul 1918)
Horace Miller is one of 3 brothers who died within a week of each other. All 3 forgotten, the names of the other 2 unknown, not even found as yet on 1901 or 1911 censuses. We only found Horace (Holly) because we have a Middx Regt banner with his nickname on it and trolling through the CWGC list of casualties. His widowed mother did not talk about it, in fact the family were kept at a distance at the time of deaths. I would greatly appreciate it if Holly can be remembered and even more if his brothers can be found to be remembered by descendants including his 2 nieces.
Gnr. Horace Frederick Miller
British Army 144th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Worthing, Sussex
(d.28th November 1917)
Horace Miller was my grandfather, and he died in action leaving my grandmother Violet Kate Miller a widow, with five children. The youngest, my mother Zena Miller was only two years old.
Pte. J E Miller
British Army 2nd Battalion, B Coy. London Regiment
Pte J E Miller was wounded whilst serving with 2nd Londons.
Sgt. J. Miller
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
J Miller served with the 24th and 30th Battalions Northumberland Fusilers.
Pte. J. W Miller
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:High Felling
J Miller served with the Tyneside Irish and the D.L.I.
Pte. Jack Sydney Miller
British Army 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Ilford, Essex
(d.28th Aug 1914)
I have had Jack Miller's war medals since 1976 when clearing out my grandfather's house. Miller is not a family name at all. Now going through a pile of family history documents I inherited from my father I found the attached cutting from the Great Eastern Railway Magazine of July 1915. He must have been something to my family but I have no idea what that is at the moment.
James Miller
British Army Seaforth Highlanders
from:Wick, Caithness, Scotland.
My grandfather, James Miller, served in the Seaforth Highlanders but we have no details for him and it appears no service record survives either. All we have is this photograph of him sent from France (he is on the right and as far as we know the other chap is a friend of his from their home town of Wick, Caithness.
I was puzzled about the outfit they are wearing as I was expecting them to be wearing a kilt but it has been suggested that during the war sometimes they were short of uniforms and they were kitted out in fleece and knitted goods from civilians. There is nothing in the photograph to suggest a regiment. Unfortunately, like many, he suffered terribly from shell shock and this eventually contributed to his death in 1934 at the age of 44. I have also been told that he was in rehabilitation in a hospital in Edinburgh.
Editors Note:
Unfortunately there were at least 12 members of the regiment bearing this name so it is not possible to distinguish which one was him without further details. The jackets they are wearing were issued to soldiers in cold weather, the rest of the uniform is standard army issue. The Seaforth Highlanders were a kilted regiment, but later in the war they wore trousers as kilts offer little protection against mustard gas. Presumably trousers may have been worn during the winter months for practical reasons.
Pte. James Miller VC.
British Army 7th Btn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
(d.30th July 1916)
James Miller died of wounds on the 30th of July 1916 and is buried in the Dartmoor Cemetery in France.
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 29740, dated 8th Sept., 1916, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery. His Battalion was consolidating a position after its capture by assault. Private Miller was ordered to take an important message under heavy shell and rifle fire and to bring back a reply at all costs. He was compelled to cross the open, and on leaving the trench was shot almost immediately in the back, the bullet coming out through his abdomen. In spite of this, with heroic courage and self-sacrifice, he compressed with his hand the gaping wound in his abdomen, delivered his message, staggered back with the answer and fell at the feet of the officer to whom he delivered it. He gave his life with a supreme devotion to duty."
Pte. James "Snow" Miller
British Army 3rd Btn. A Company Cameron Highlanders
from:Greenock, Scotland
James Miller, is my Grandfather, born in Greenock, Scotland and immigrated to New Zealand in 1927. Unfortunately, we are unable to confirm all his records, due to the fire that destroyed records. All we have is this photo and the knowledge that he was gassed during the war which affected him for his remaining years. He died in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand in 1961 after a happy and successful life.
L/Cpl. James Miller
British Army 10th Btn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Londonderry
James Miller Joined the 10th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Aug 1915. He deployed to France on 5th Oct 1915 where he served with the Battalion. He was discharged on 15 Aug 1916, believed due to injuries (possibly from Gas - not confirmed).
Pte. Jampson Young Miller
British Army 20th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Sunderland, Co. Durham
Jampson Young Miller was born on 29 December 1882 in Church Walk which is the small lane that runs pass the Holy Trinity Church in the east end of Sunderland. His birth was also recorded wrongly as Jamson. Jampson was one of 9 children and his father was William Burlinson Miller and his mother was Eliza Usher, who were also both born in Sunderland.
Jampson served in the First World War in the Durham Light Infantry. He join up on 5 September 1915. Although records show he was attached to the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Durham Light Infantry his number is prefixed with a 20 indicating that he served overseas with the 20th (Wearside) Battalion. The 20th was raised in Sunderland on 10 July 1915 and landed in France on 5 May 1916.
The 20th Battalion DLI saw action at: Flers-Courcelette, Ancre Heights, Somme, 1916; Pilckem, Menin Road Ridge, Ypres, 1917; Bapaume, 1918; Somme, 1918; Ypres, 1918. and were disbanded in November 1918. The 20th Battalion was a part of the 123rd Brigade of the 41st Division. The Division formed in Britain in October 1915 from the Locally Raised or Pals Battalions from various parts of the country. Arrived in France in May 1916. Served in France and Flanders until November 1917 when the Division went to Italy, the Division served in Italy until March 1918 when it went back to France. The Division remained in France and Flanders until the Armistice. In March 1918 the 20th Balttalion was transferred to the 124th Brigade. The 124th was also part of the 41st Division.
The first battle in which Jampson was involved in was a very famous one, this was the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. Flers-Courcelette was the first battle during which Tanks were used in warfare. It is revealing to know that one of your ancestors was at a very famous event as this battle was. Jampson was known to have been gassed (this was likely during the Battles of Passchendaele when the German's used Mustard Gas). Jampson's army discharge papers show that Jampson was discharged on 12 February 1918 as been medically unfit for service. Jampson in fact from the war returned with a severe sharpnel wound in his back. This wound was so bad that you could place your fist in it. After the First World War worked as a labourer with the Sunderland Water Board doing sewage work.
The 20th Battalion DLI were involved in further battles of the Somme and Ypres in 1918. However, the next major battle on the Somme did not commence until 21 March 1918. Jampson was discharged in Febuary 1918 so it is possible he was wounded toward the end of the Third Battle of Ypres and was discharged when he had recovered sufficently to be released from hospital.
John Miller
Army Durham Light Infantry
This is a picture of my Grandfather, John Miller, and some comrades who served with the DLI during WW1. The photograph, I believe, was taken in a POW camp, somewhere in France.
Pte. John Henry Miller
British Army 5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:6 Elmtree Street, Rise Carr, Darlington
(d.24th Apr 1915)
John Henry Miller is Remembered with Honour at the Menin Gate Ypres
Notes on one man’s background and entry into the Great War. A portrait of the average soldier:
Private 1016 J.H. Miller of the 1/5 Durham Light Infantry, part of the York and Durham Brigade, Territorials, was my Great Grandfather. He was born in 1869 in the parish of St. Johns, Hull; his father Isaac was a stevedore in Hull docks. I have no idea yet, how and why John Henry came to Darlington but on 23rd December 1899 at age 30, he married Susannah Brown aged 21, in the parish church of St. Paul’s in Darlington. Susannah was originally from Brierly Hill in Staffordshire where her father Robert Brown had been a Brick maker. The 1901 census records John Henry as 31 years old and as a Railway Plate Layer; their first child Charlotte was not yet one year old. This new family of 3 lived with Susannah’s parents, Robert and Sarah Brown, and Susannah’s siblings in overcrowded conditions at 10 Boyne Street, Rise Carr in the Harrowgate Hill area of Darlington. By the time of the 1911 census, John Henry is recorded as being 43 and not 41 years of age and now living at 3 Boyne Street, with Susannah and their children, Charlotte (10), Isabel (8), John Robert (6) and Lillian (4). Louise Miller, my Grandmother was yet to be born and in fact was 2 days short of her first birthday when John Henry was eventually killed in action. The same census records my Great Grandad as being a Blacksmith Striker and Puddler in an iron works.
In spite of being only 5’ 7” tall John Henry Miller was clearly a fit and strong man involved in heavy industrial labour. Additionally, it is clear that by this time, this man had already become a “Saturday Night Soldier.” Enlistment Papers and Army Medial Reports show Private Miller as fit on 11th March 1908. The same papers also indicate previous military service by John Henry as a gunner with the Royal Garrison Artillery Regiment, being discharged from the terms of his engagement at Dover on 9th August 1907. Previous service in the West Indies and Boer Wars are not the focus of attention here and remain the subject of research elsewhere. Suffice to say all indications are that he was a very good soldier and bandsman. Why was my Great Grandad in the T.A.? Perhaps the reorganization of the army in 1908, perhaps a sense of duty and pride, but more likely the need for extra money for a large and growing family. The King’s shilling was of great importance to many struggling working class North Eastern families at that time.
At the outbreak of war in August 1914, Private 1016 Miller was a member of the 5th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, in D, E or H company (Darlington) and based at Stockton on Tees as part of the York and Durham Brigade. Kitchener’s Saturday Night Soldiers were the object of scorn and contempt from many senior army officials at that time. Ironic that their contribution to the war effort would prove to be so significant and invaluable. There is to me additional and greater irony that Lord Kitchener should add his stamp to the pro forma message of condolence and sympathy from His Majesty following Private Miller’s eventual death.
On 10th August 1914 the battalion moved from Stockton on Tees up to Hartlepool and by October that year via Ravensworth Park, the battalion were billeted in Newcastle. It is worth noting that during this time many Officers were taken ill due to the apparently poor living conditions in which they were placed. Also during this time Private Miller signed along with thousands of others an agreement to serve overseas. This was a period of increasingly intense preparation and training.
On 16th April 1915 the battalion boarded a train at Newcastle station and departed at 1.30 pm bound for Folkestone via York, Doncaster, Spalding, March and London. 17th April 1915 saw the arrival of the Battalion at Folkestone between 12.45 and 1.00 am. and there began the immediate embarkation on board the Invicta. Records show that by 2.00 am they were underway on a very calm sea. A famous poem by a Sgt. Wilkes notes there was “no merriment or singing.” As an aside the Invicta was a cross channel turbine steamer of 1680 tonnes built in 1905 by William Denny and Sons in Dumbarton, owned and operated by the South Eastern and Chatham Rail Company before she was sold in 1923 to a French company Saga. The battalion arrived at Boulogne in France shortly before dawn on the 17th April. They disembarked immediately and began a cold and damp march up a steep hill to the outskirts of Boulogne and St. Martin’s Camp. Here the battalion rested until 5.30 pm that day. In the early evening John Henry and his comrades marched some seven miles to Pont de Briques where they entrained for Cassell at approximately 2.00 am.
18th April, the whole battalion marched 8 miles to Steenvoorde and were billeted by company in various local farms. The march had been accompanied by the sound of distant gunfire as a reminder that their 5 day stay was a preparation for war in the trenches.
22nd April was prior to my Great Grandad’s involvement but records (falsely) the first gas attack by German forces on French Algerian and Moroccan troops. Some 5700 canisters/168 tons of chlorine gas were unleashed and the devastating effects are well recorded elsewhere. This new lethal weapon of mass destruction had been in place and prepared since early February and it was only poor weather conditions that prevented its earlier use. At 5.00 pm the same day heavy shelling on Ypres and French trenches recommenced as a prelude to a German Infantry attack. Numerous texts explain in great detail the events of that day and the courageous actions of, for example, Canadian troops near Kitcheners’ Wood. NB: the use of the apostrophe in Kitcheners’ Wood is because it has nothing to do with Lord Kitchener but rather the “Bois de Cuisinieres”, and is therefore appropriately placed.
23rd April was as usual St. George’s Day of 1915. At this point the battalion was 103 strong and commanded by Lt. Col. G.O. Spence. Spence had been warned the previous day to be ready at a moment’s notice. The more usual 4 company structure had been adopted and Private J.H. Miller was recorded as one of two official stretcher bearers with C company; he along with a Private Filtcroft and 3 attached RAMC are in evidence. I have no indication at this point why John Henry Miller was a stretcher Bearer – age, inclination, objection, experience and more research is required.
The battalion was moved closer to the action en masse by motor bus to Poperinghe and then marched in silence and darkness to Vlamertinghe. From Vlamertinghe John Henry and his comrades marched to Brierlen where a hutted camp was to be their rest. Brierlen was, however, already under shell fire and the men were forced to lay on open ground during a wet, cold, grizzly night. No casualties are recorded at this time and Brierlen marked the boundary with French and Belgian troops.
On 24th April at 1.00 am the battalion was assembled to move into action. They moved to take up positions on both banks of the Yser canal. From here the men moved to Potijze and in the early daylight they passed refugees and the gassed and wounded soldiers from the Front who warned them of their impending death. Ypres was to their right flank and visibly in flames. In occupying a line of reserve trenches at Potijze the first casualties were recorded and it appears that John Henry Miller was among the six that died that day. Three had belonged to A company and had died at Fortuin in support of Canadian troops. Private J.H. Miller was the only one listed with C company and the only official stretcher bearer killed. It had been noted in dispatches that 2ndLt. E.W. Faber and 2 or 3 of the old bandsmen were doing “splendid work as stretcher bearers.”
My Great Grandfather was now dead and Susannah Miller was now a widow with 5 children living in 6 Elmtree Street, Rise Carr, Darlington. John Henry Miller had lasted 6 days from landing in France and had made the ultimate sacrifice for his King, Country and Comrades. Thousands had already died and many thousands more were to die on both sides in the following months and years.
To some, 1016 Pte. J.H. Miller may have been mere working class cannon fodder … but to me he was, alongside many others, a hero. To my immense satisfaction and pride his name is recorded at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium and his name and contribution are remembered with sorrow and honour. “… At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember them.”
Editors Note: Bandsmen traditionally serve the role of stretcher bearers during combat.
Gnr. John Miller
British Army 177th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
from:London
(d.30th Oct 1917)
Gunner John Miller, 31509 177th Royal Field Artillery was my Great-Grandfather who died whilst serving in Ireland. He is buried in the Curragh Cemetery, just outside Dublin. John was transferred to the 320th Home Service Company Labour Corp at some point and he was serving with them at the time of his death.
I have always been told that John had visited the doctor a number of times complaining of headaches, only to be sent away without further investigation. Sadly, on 30th October 1917, John died whilst on duty and it was discovered that he had suffered a brain haemorrhage. John's wife Ellen was a strong lady and having just lost her husband and having a young daughter, Kathleen, must have kicked up a bit of a stink as she was taken over to Ireland for John's burial on the Curragh in 1917.
At the bottom of John's headstone, there is the inscription "Always remembered, never forgotten" and he hasn't been. I visited his grave for my 30th birthday in 2000 and plan to go back soon - hopefully, 2017. I know that the Curragh Barracks were handed back to the Irish in 1922 but feel very sad that the War Graves in the Curragh Cemetery are not tended with the same respect and dedication that I have seen in every other war cemetery (both WWI and WWII) that I have visited. It appears sufficient to chuck a couple of sheep over the wall and leave them to keep the grass under control, but this piece is about John's story.
Pte. John Lamb Miller
British Army 15th Service Btn. 13 Coy Highland Light Infantry
from:130 Gairbraid Street, Maryhill, Glasgow
I have the New Testament given to John Lamb Miller by the Corporation of the City of Glasgow. It is in great condition. He was a relation of mine, but I know very little about him. Any information, no matter how small would be great.
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