MILLER, Gordon Hamilton
Service Number: | 943 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Bromley, Kent, England., 1891 |
Home Town: | Delungra, Inverell, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 2 August 1916 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France, Estaires Communal Cemetery and Extension, Estaires, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
12 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 943, 17th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
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12 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 943, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney | |
2 Aug 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 943, 17th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 943 awm_unit: 17th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-08-02 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 24 and the son of Ezekial and Jessie Miller; husband of Elizabeth Mary Miller,[nee Walker] of 93, Homesdale Rd., Bromley, Kent, England. They were married in the same year he was killed.
Civil Registration Details
Births Dec 1891 MILLER Gordon Bromley 2a 421
Marriages Jun 1916
Miller Gordon H Walker Bromley 2a 1150
Walker Elizabeth M Miller Bromley 2a 1150
He is one of 11 Australian casualties of the Great War honoured on the Bromley War Memorial in Kent, England.