Dame Mabel Flora MILLER DBE

MILLER, Mabel Flora

Service Number: 350028
Enlisted: 30 August 1941, Appointed acting section officer, Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force,
Last Rank: Squadron Leader
Last Unit: RAAF Recruit Centres
Born: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 30 November 1906
Home Town: Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling: Girton House Girls' Grammar School and University of Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation: Barrister
Died: New Town, Tasmania Australia , 30 December 1978, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

30 Aug 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 350028, RAAF Recruit Centres, Appointed acting section officer, Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force,
3 Oct 1944: Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Squadron Leader, 350028, RAAF Recruit Centres

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Biography contributed by Ned Young

Dame Mabel Flora Miller

by Stefan Petrow

Dame Mabel Flora Miller (1906-1978), politician, was born on 30 November 1906 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, second child of South Australian-born parents Joseph Christian Goodhart, draper, and his wife Alice Mary, née Humphries. Brought to Adelaide as a child, Mabel was educated at Girton House Girls' Grammar School. She attended a finishing school in Paris before entering the University of Adelaide (LL.B., 1927). Admitted to the South Australian Bar on 17 December 1927, she pursued her profession in London and Sydney before settling in Tasmania. At St George's Anglican Church, Hobart, on 24 July 1930 she married Alan John Richmond Miller (d.1965), a 31-year-old chemist.

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