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DAVID MILLER

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Rank
Guardsman
Regiment
SCOTS GUARDS 1ST BATTALION
Military Number
7341
Address
"FRITHFIELD" HOUSE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL. HU8 8QS
Background

BORN BANNOCKBURN, STIRLING 1890. SON OF HUGH MILLER & ELIZABETH MELROSE (1859-1932), OF "FRITHFIELD" HOUSE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL. (CWGC ADDRESS).

HE ENLISTED IN GLASGOW. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER, SERVING WITH THE 1ST BATTALION, SCOTS GUARDS, BEFORE WAR BEGAN. HE ARRIVED IN FRANCE, WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE., ON 13/08/1914. KILLED AT YPRES, ON 29/10/1914, AGED 24.

HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.

HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, HUGH.

HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, HUGH WILSON MILLER, 72ND CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, WAS KILLED ON 29/09/1918, AGED 24 AND IS BURIED AT SANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE.

Date Died
29/10/1914
Died
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age
24

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