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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.
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