Born George Gordon Darley Miller, eldest son of Colonel Miller. At Harrow 1913 - 1917. Killed in action, north Russia. From : "2ND LIEUTENANT G. G. D. MILLER Royal Horse Artillery ...", followed by some touching memories of the boy when at Harrow.
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, adds that George Gordon Darley Miller was born on 20 February 1900, the elder child of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Darley Miller (1865-1930) and Irene Helen Miller née Langtry (1875-1969). On 17 March 1900 he was baptised in St Andrew's Church, Rugby, Warwickshire, where in the baptismal register his family are recorded as living in Springhill and that his father was a gentleman. His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1900 in the Rugby Registration District, Warwickshire.
He is shown as George G. D. Miller, aged 1 year in the census that was undertaken on 31 March 1901. He was living at Widdington, Clifton Road, Rugby, with his parents, together with a cook, a parlourmaid, a housemaid and a nurse. His father was recorded as "Officer. Lieutenant. Reserve of Officers".
His brother, Desmond Charles John Miller (1903-1942), was born on 26 March 1903.
He was listed as aged 11 years, one of the 63 schoolboys who were boarding at Bilton Grange Preparatory School, Dunchurch, Rugby, on the census that was compiled on 2 April 1911. Whilst there he won the Boy Scouts Medal for Gallantry, for helping to rescue a drowning woman from a lake in Cheshire.
Having attended as a Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he was in the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 20 September 1918. He was too young to go to France and was sent as an Instructor at Weedon, Northamptonshire. After the Armistice he went to Belgium, serving with 'E' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, but suffered a fractured collar bone in a steeplechase in Spa and was invalided home in March 1919.
He volunteered for service in the Royal Field Artillery in North Russia to fight against the Bolsheviks on the side of the White movement during the Russian Civil War. He arrived there in July 1919, but was shot dead, aged 19 years, on 15 September 1919 when acting as the forward liaison officer for an armoured train, while getting a wounded man onto an engine at Siding 5 on the Murman Railway. His body was buried in the Murmansk New British Cemetery and is .
He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal. On 20 April 1920 his army effects totalling £35-0s-0d were sent to his father.
He is shown as "Gordon Darley Miller" on the memorial plaque attached to the west pier of the Harrow School gates, Church Hill, Harrow, HA1 3HN. He is also commemorated as "GORDON DARLEY MILLER. R.H.A." on the , High Street, Hillmorton, Rugby, CV21 4EE, on the , on the , on the and on the .
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