28/06/1915- Completed Medical Examination Bridgetown WA
6/07/1915- Allotted to 10th Reinforcements 11th Battalion Blackboy Hill WA as Private
13/09/1915- Embarked Fremantle WA aboard ” Themistocles ” bound for Egypt
8/10/1915- Disembarked Alexandria ex Australia to Overseas Training Base
7/01/1916- Taken on Strength ” D ” Company 11th Battalion in the field Tel-el-Kebir Egypt
27/01/1916- Admitted 8th Field Ambulance Serapeum Egypt ( Influenza )
3/02/1916- Rejoined Unit Egypt ex Sickness
16/02/1916- Admitted 1st Australian Stationary Hospital Ismailia Egypt then transferred to 1st Australian General Hospital Heliopolis Egypt ( Pneumonia ) ex 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station ex 2nd Field Ambulance
7/03/1916- Transferred to Convalescent Camp Helouan Egypt
14/03/1916- Taken on Strength 11th Battalion Serapeum ex Overseas Training Base Ghezireh Egypt
29/03/1916- Embarked Alexandria with British Expeditionary Forces bound for Marseilles France
5/04/1916- Disembarked Marseilles
20/08/1916- Reported Missing in Action France
20/06/1917- Court of Enquiry found soldier to have been Killed in Action Pozieres, France.
REPORTS on SOLDIER’S DEATH
Informant – WILLIAMS, Cpl. James Norman, 1656- 11th Battalion AIF – ” MILLER was one of the Machine Gun detachment and was in a shell hole about 10 yards from our detachment. I saw a heavy shell explode close to MILLER’s detachment killing two and wounding two. I spoke to the wounded men who told me that MILLER had been killed. He was 5 feet 7 inches, fair, clean-shaven with sharp features”.
Informant – LONG, Lieut. A.J.- ” D ” Company 11th Battalion AIF – ” On this occasion we were subjected to a very severe bombardment and many a good man was blown to fragments and buried under tons of earth before dawn. I checked the few of us that remained and MILLER was found to be missing along with many others. The Army records no man as dead until his body is found and buried. But I leave you to draw the obvious conclusion from this, death in any case would have been instantaneous . This action occurred in front of the Village of Pozieres”.
SERVICE MEDALS AWARDED
1914/15 Star – Medal No. 5019
British War Medal – No. 21691
Victory Medal – No. 21615
Memorial Plaque/Scroll – No. 326623.
MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS
Greenbushes War Memorial WA
Australian War Memorial Canberra ACT – Panel No. 63
Villers-Brettoneux Memorial France.