Miller, Richard

Sergeant, RICHARD MILLER, 10/493. Born Orange River, Kronstadt, Cape Colony, South Africa, 1895, Resident in Hull when war broke out, Richard enlisted on 2nd September 1914 as part of the fledgling 10th Battalion. He fought in first Egypt and then the Somme and Oppy Wood before being killed in action on 29th June 1917. His ar,y effects were left to his mother, Sarah Miller and sister, Edith, at Burton Cottages, Burton Road, Hornsea (Probate & war pension address). He also left £118 in his will to his mother.

He is buried at Albuera Cemetery, Bailleul-Sire-Berthoult. The cemetery was a burial centre for bodies retrieved from the Arras battlefields after the Armistice, and Richard was most likely hurriedly buried beneath a wooden cross that June and exhumed in 1919. Unfortunately, he was in good company. The 10th Battalion reported a total of 623 soldiers at the end of June 1917; when they had first sailed for Egypt in December 1915, there had been 920.