Alexander Brenner (Sandy) MILLER

MILLER, Alexander Brenner

Service Number: 644
Enlisted: 19 October 1916, Warwick, Qld.
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd Machine Gun Company
Born: Mill Hill, Qld., 1893
Home Town: Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Carter
Died: Myocardial Infarction, Cerebral Infarction and Pulmonary Oedma, Repatriation General Hospital, Greenslopes, Brisbane., 30 July 1972
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Warwick War Memorial Gates
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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Alexander was the 5th of 8 children of Margaret Isabella Bremner and Daniel Miller  He was born 2nd June 1893 in Warwick.   Army records show that Alexander Bremner Miller enlisted in the AIF in 1916.  He gave his mother, Margaret Miller, as his next-of-kin, (his father died 1912)  and his occupation as painter.  The 1919 and 1922 Electoral Rolls, shows Alexander  living with his mother and siblings, at Mill Hill (Warwick).  His occupation at this time was grocer’s assistant.  Alexander seems to have left Warwick sometime after 1922. He met Mabel Olive Rose BEWS, being friends since the war, Oll & Alex married on 11th August 1945 in Brisbane and lived at 22 Regatta Street, Chelmer.  After Alex passed away on 30th July 1972.  Oll 's doctor then admitted her to Nunyara Nursing Home, New Farm where she passed away after many years on 29th September, 1996.

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