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Alexander Henderson MILLER

Place of birthBerwick, Gippsland, Victoria
SchoolBroadmeadows Public School, Victoria
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationSchool teacher
AddressBeechworth, Victoria
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation29
Next of kinWife, Mrs Isabel Hattie C Miller, The Avenue, East Malvern, Victoria
Enlistment date15 July 1915
Rank on enlistment2nd Lieutenant
Unit name57th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/74/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A31 Ajana on 8 July 1916
Rank from Nominal RollLieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll57th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 25 September 1917
Place of death or woundingHooge, Belgium
Age at death32
Age at death from cemetery records32
Place of burialHooge Crater Cemetery (Plot XIII, Row J, Grave No. 10), Zillebeke, Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
164
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Alexander and Marian MILLER; husband of Belle MILLER, "Wooragee", 28 Clendon Road, Toorak, Victoria. Native of Berwick, Victoria
Family/military connectionsCousin: 2nd Lt Alan Lindsay WARDLAW, 12th Bn, returned to Australia, 16 March 1919.
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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