MILLER, Albert Guy
Service Number: | Officer |
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Enlisted: | 1 January 1914, Place of enlistment - London, England Royal Army Medical Corps. Exact month and day of enlistment unknown. |
Last Rank: | Captain |
Last Unit: | Unspecified British Units |
Born: | Toorak, Victoria, Australia, 5 November 1884 |
Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
Schooling: | Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne University - Trinity College |
Occupation: | Medical Practioner |
Died: | Killed In Action, France, 29 December 1915, aged 31 years |
Cemetery: |
Meaulte Military Cemetery Row A, Grave 28 Headstone Inscription "IN ARDUIS FIDELIS" |
Memorials: | MCC Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918 - Melbourne Cricket Club, Melbourne Grammar School WW1 Fallen Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
1 Jan 1914: | Enlisted Place of enlistment - London, England Royal Army Medical Corps. Exact month and day of enlistment unknown. | |
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29 Dec 1915: | Involvement Captain, Officer, Unspecified British Units, Served in the Royal Medical Corps, Medical Officer with the 12th Middlesex Regiment in 54th Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of Albert and Mary MILLER, of Whernside, Toorak, Melbourne, Australia; husband of Marjorie Grice MILLER.
From Albany Road, Toorak. Educated at Melbourne Grammar School – Prefect, First XI, Tennis. Studied Medicine at Melbourne University, attending Trinity College. Played cricket for University CC. Diploma of Opthalmology, Oxford, in 1914. An authority on the history of music, he played the violin, cello and organ. Enlisted in London in October 1914 in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Medical Officer with the 12th Middlesex Regiment in 54th Brigade. He was killed near Fricourt on December 29, 1915 by a rifle grenade. He was buried at Meaulte. He was 31.