Name
Frederick Charles Miller
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Gloucestershire Regiment
6th Bn. (Territorial), attached 5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. VENANT-ROBECQ ROAD BRITISH CEMETERY, ROBECQ
Plot IV, Row C, Grave 21.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour
Pre War
Son of Henry Septimus and Annie Elizabeth (nee POTTS) MILLER of Stoke Newington, London.
His parents married 22 June 1880 at St Mary’s, Stoke Newington. Annie died 7 September 1920 aged 66; Henry died 2 July 1928 aged 77; both in Stoke Newington.
Frederick was born 1883 in New Brunswick, Canada, and attended the Grocers’ Company School, Hackney, London, from 16 January 1896.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1891 Canadian Census, aged 8 he lived in New Brunswick, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1901 Census, a timber merchant’s clerk aged 18, he was a boarder in Colchester, Essex. On the 1911 Census, a timber agent’s clerk aged 28, he lived in Stoke Newington, with his parents and six siblings.
Wartime Service
He attested 22 November 1915 at Dukes Road, London W.C. in the Territorial Force for 4 years’ service in the U.K.: an assistant manager to a timber merchant aged 32, 5’4″ tall, Methodist; Private 5274 28th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles).
He served at Home 22 November 1915 to 3 August 1916, and was appointed unpaid Lance-Corporal 9 August 1916.
He was discharged in consequence of being appointed Second Lieutenant 6th (Reserve) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment 30 August 1916.
He was admitted to 1st London Hospital with gun shot wounds to the left leg and forearm 18 June 1917; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
His headstone reads: "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN".
There are articles about Frederick in the Western Daily Press dated 4 September 1916; and the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 18 May 1918.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
