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Private JAMES MILLER

Service Number: 12639
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 July 1916

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DARTMOOR CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT

I. C. 64.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Victoria Cross
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
  • Additional Citation note

    An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 29740, dated 8th Sept., 1916, records the following:-"For most conspicuous bravery. His Battalion was consolidating a position after its capture by assault. Private Miller was ordered to take an important message under heavy shell and rifle fire and to bring back a reply at all costs. He was compelled to cross the open, and on leaving the trench was shot almost immediately in the back, the bullet coming out through his abdomen. In spite of this, with heroic courage and self-sacrifice, he compressed with his hand the gaping wound in his abdomen, delivered his message, staggered back with the answer and fell at the feet of the officer to whom he delivered it. He gave his life with a supreme devotion to duty."

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