MILLER, Percy
| Service Number: | 2046 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 February 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Footscray State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Ironmoulder |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 21 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2046, 14th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 2046, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 2046, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Percy Miller was employed at Laughton’s Foundry in Footscray prior to enlisting. He was involved in the 14th Battalion’s attack on Hill 60 on the 21 August 1915, an engagement which cost the battalion heavy casualties. He was reported missing and no further trace of him was found. He was found by a Court of Enquiry held during April 1916 to be killed in action.
His family was quite convinced by dubious reports that he was a prisoner of war of the Turks. His sister wrote several long letters to Base Records in 1917 demanding some sort of enquiry or investigation into her brother’s fate be instigated. She stated “I do not think for one minute he is dead, and I feel quite sure that everything or all that could be done, has not been done, regarding his end.”
Percy’s younger brother, 3359 Pte. Walter Henson Miller 5th Battalion AIF, was only months later killed in action near Fleurbaix on 8 May 1916, aged 20.
They were the sons of George and Kate Miller, of Gordon St., Footscray, Victoria. Kate was awarded a pension of 40 shillings per fortnight for Percy, as well as 20 shillings per fortnight for the loss of Walter.