Harold Kiffen (Micky) MILLER

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MILLER, Harold Kiffen

Service Number:	WX7013
Enlisted:	30 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Fremantle, Western Australia, 5 June 1916
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Accidental, At sea (Nino Bixio), Mediterranean Sea, 17 August 1942, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Col 93
Memorials:	Alamein Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, WX7013
30 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX7013, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion

Biography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin

Harold was the youngest son of Charles and Henrietta, and the third of their five children. His father died in 1922 aged 47 (see obituary: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/83155586). His mother Matilda (Ettie) did not remarry and died in 1956 aged 69.

Harold was one of 41 Australian POWs killed when the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident, four died later by execution. Most of the Australian casualties were from the 2/28th Infantry Battalion.

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