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MILLER, Robert Gilland
(Service number 24912)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	12 August 1888	Place of Birth	Pareora West

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Pareora West
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	James MILLER (father), Pareora West, Timaru
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	14th reinforcements, New Zealand Mounted rifles
Date	10 July 1916
Transport	Waihora
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Military Awards

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No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
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Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Admitted to 45th Stationary Hospital, El Arish, on 26 November 1917, with gunshot wound to right thigh.

Post-war Occupations

Death

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Place of Death
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Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Robert Gilland Miller was the only son of James and Deborah (née Priest) Miller. He suffered 50% permanent disability from the war.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [09 January 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [09 January 2017]; Timaru Herald, 5 December 1917 (Papers Past) [29 November 2015]

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