Joseph MILLER

MILLER, Joseph

    Service Number: 6297
    Enlisted: 10 April 1916, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
    Born: Killanhue, Wexford, Ireland , 7 February 1884
    Home Town: Beverley, Beverley, Western Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Farm hand
    Died: Shot dead by sentry - POW of Germany, Valenciennes, France, 7 July 1917, aged 33 years
    Cemetery: Valenciennes (St. Roch) Communal Cemetery
    St Roch Communal Cemetery, Valenciennes, Nord Pas de Calais, France
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Beverley District Honour Roll WW1, Beverley War Memorial
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    World War 1 Service

    10 Apr 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6297, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
    13 Oct 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6297, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''
    13 Oct 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6297, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Suffolk, Fremantle
    11 Apr 1917: Imprisoned Bullecourt (First)

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    Biography contributed by John Edwards

    "At Valenciennes, Pte Miller, who was in a starving condition, attempted to take some potatoes growing in a field close by and was shot dead by one of the sentries." - Witness 2012 Pte Harry Bruce Kyle

    Stated by German authorties to have been "attempting escape" - but by all other reports appears that he was returning to the enclosure having secured some potatoes and was shot in the head at short range.

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