ARTHUR WILLIAM MILLER
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 1917
Born: 18th November 1892, Wetherden, Suffolk.
Died: 3rd August 1917; age: 25; died of wounds received in action at the 12th Casualty Clearing Station.
Residence: 28, Parliament Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: Carter.
Enlistment: Ipswich.
Rank: Corporal; Service Number: 55453.
Regiment: Machine Gun Corps, 166th Coy – Infantry.
Formerly 20153, East Kent Regiment, The Buffs.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
III.E.19.
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
Relatives Notified & Address: Husband of M.E. Miller, of Well House, Brantham, Essex.
CENSUS
1901 Stow Road, Old Newton, Suffolk.
Arthur was 8 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Arthur Miller, 34, an Agricultural Labourer, born Wetherden, Suffolk.
Rosa Ellen Miller (nee Lomas), 34, born Cotton, Suffolk.
Rose Matilda Ellen Miller, 12, born Bacton, Suffolk.
Ethel Agnes Miller, 6, born Wetherden.
Harry Thomas Miller, 3, born Old Newton, Suffolk.
Stanley Robert Miller, 11 months, born Old Newton.
1911 91, Alan Road, Ipswich.
Arthur was 18 years old, a Carter. He was living with his parents & siblings.
Arthur, 44, a General Labourer.
Rosa, 44.
Ethel, 16.
Harry, 13, a Baker’s Boy.
Stanley, 10.
Lily Winifred Miller, 9, born Old Newton.
Olive May Miller, 6, born Old Newton.
On the 13th May 1911, at St. Mary’s Church, Capel St. Mary, Suffolk, 18 year old Arthur, a carter, married 20 year old Mary Emily Webb, born October 1890, Stonham Aspall, Suffolk – daughter of Isaac Webb, a stockman, and Emily Judith Webb (nee West), of The Street, Capel St. Mary.
Mary and Arthur had five children:
Mary E. Miller, born 1911, Ipswich. Mary died on the 3rd August 1911 and was buried in Section S at Ipswich Old Cemetery.
Wilfred Arthur Miller, born July 1912, Ipswich.
Rose Mary Emily Miller, born September 1913, Ipswich.
Edna Grace Miller, born August 1915, Ipswich.
Harry Thomas Miller, born November 1916, Ipswich. Arthur never got to meet his son Harry.
Soldiers’ Effects to Mrs. Mary E. Beeston – widow.
Arthur is also remembered on the war memorial at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich.
2 Comments
This would be my great, great Grandfather its so lovely to put a face to the name
Same here, Rose was my Great grandmother.