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MILLER, Eric Sutherland

Service Number:	VX15227
Enlisted:	16 May 1940, 2/14 Infantry Battalion
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Euroa, Victoria, Australia , 1 April 1919
Home Town:	Seymour, Mitchell, Victoria
Schooling:	Ruffy Primary School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Natural Causes, 18 March 2003, aged 83 years, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Broadford Cemetery, Victoria Broadford, Mitchell Shire, Victoria, Australia. Plot: Lawn, Beam F, Grave 18.
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World War 2 Service

16 May 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX15227, 2/14 Infantry Battalion
16 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX15227, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
20 May 1940:	Transferred Private, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion, Puckapunyal, Victoria.
19 Oct 1940:	Embarked Private, VX15227, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Sydney - Disembarked Middle East 25th November 1940.
18 Mar 1941:	Wounded Private, VX15227, 1st Australian General Hospital, Middle East / Mediterranean Theatre, Evacuated to Hospital with illness at Gaza, Palestine.
26 Mar 1941:	Transferred Private, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion, Return to Unit from 1st Australian General Hospital Gaza.
6 Oct 1941:	Promoted Lance Corporal, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion, Middle East.
30 Jan 1942:	Embarked Lance Corporal, VX15227, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion, Embarked with unit from Port Tewfik, Egypt, Middle East on the Ship 'Kosciusko'
25 Mar 1942:	Embarked Lance Corporal, VX15227, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion, Disembarked in Adelaide, 2nd/14th Battalion granted a period of leave in South Australia.
9 Jun 1942:	Promoted Private, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion, Reverted to Private Soldier.
6 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX15227, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
6 Dec 1945:	Discharged Private, VX15227, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion, Discharged Royal Park, Victoria.
Date unknown:	Involvement Private, VX15227, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion

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