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Corporal Elaine Mary Miller (Service No:93487) enlisted in the WAAAF as Elaine Mary Jones on 31 March 1942 at No 2 Recruiting Centre Sydney as an Aircraftwoman - mustered as Trainee Wireless Operator, re mustered as Wireless Operator and later Telegarphist. Corporal Miller was attached to 5 Operational Training Unit at Discharge on 10 April 1945.

Lainey was born at Broken Hill, NSW in 1921, third of four children of Ernest Richardson Johns (b1889 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Muriel Isabella Hogg (b1893 in Melbourne, Victoria). Ernest (a Commercial Traveller) and Muriel married in 1915 in Broken Hill, where they settled and raised their family and, in 1928, established - and were Directors of - Campbell & Sutton (wholesale merchants, importers and agents). In the mid 1930s Ernest and Muriel moved their family to Sydney, where Ernest was a Merchant, and served as a Lieutenant in the ACMF. By 1947 they had moved to Grose Vale in Kurrajong, NSW where Ernest was a Farmer. Following Muriel's death in 1954, Ernest remained at Grose Vale before moving to Sydney by the early 1960s. Ernest lived in Sydney with youngest daughter Wilga, a Nurse.

Lainey worked in Sydney as a Bookkeeping Machine Operator for Anthony Hordern & Sons and was an Adding Machine Operator for Dunlop Perdriau Rubber Coy in 1942 when she enlisted in the WAAAF. In 1944 in Sydney, Lainey married Douglas Claude Miller (b1920 in Manildra, NSW) - Doug was a Sergeant in the AIF (Service No:NX50770). Following Discharge, Lainey and Doug (a Farmer) initially on the Miller family property - Moolahway in Manildra - before settling in the early 1950s at Woolgarlo via Manildra, where they raised their family and Doug was a Farmer. Doug died in 1987 and Lainey in 2005.