BORN HULL 1882. SON OF THOMAS AND AGNES MILLER, OF 5, ALEXANDER TERRACE, GRANGE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF AN OIL MILL PRESSMAN. A GENERAL (SUGAR BAY) LABOURER. HE HAD ONE YOUNGER BROTHER, THOMAS AND FOUR SISTERS. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 29/09/1918. BURIED AT LA KREULE MILITARY CEMETERY, HAZEBROUCK, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER THOMAS. HIS SURNAME IS SPELT J. MILLAR IN CWGC RECORDS.
Hull Pals Memorial Post: PRIVATE JOHN MILLER 33420. Born in Hull and son of Thomas Miller, further details are hard to confirm owing to the sheer volume of men with that name, but we do know John served with the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment and that he was fatally wounded during the fighting around Soyer Farm and died on 29th September 1918. He is buried in La Kreule Military Cemetery. It may not be much to go on, it may not adequately sum up the fragmented terror and desperation of a young man being shelled, shot at and gassed for his country while being ordered around sodden ditches in northern France by his ‘superiors’, but it’s enough to remember him by.
