George W MILLER [7646]

  General Notes:

George probably married Grace Cave in 1920 and died in 1961 at Wellingborough.

Echo April 15^th. 1918

HIGHAM FERRERS
CASUALTIES

MANY SOLDIERS WOUNDED IN
" THE GREAT BATTLE " .

Back in Blighty

" Heaven after the Hell over Yonder " .
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Mrs H. Miller of 90 High Street Higham Ferrers, has heard from her son, Lance-Corpl. George William Miller, Northants Regt. That he was wounded on March 27^th. and is now in hospital at St. Leonard ' s by the Sea. In the course of his letter he says; " Here I am in a splendid bed, and in one of the best and most comfortable places in England. My word it ' s heaven after that hell of a retreat over yonder. I have a small piece of shell in my right arm. I got hit by a shell that killed three of us and wounded four or five, so I was lucky once more, wasn ' t I? My word it lifted me up a little, but I managed to carry my poor chum from Kettering to safety. He has it rather stiff. We were standing to in a trench on a ridge just behind---- on the ---- and were expecting Fritz any minute to come over, and he was putting up his barrage on us, but I have heard since that our boys went out after him after I left. He caught lots of our chaps with his gunfire as they retired, but still we were holding him all right, and my word he ' s lost some men; everybody says the same. He didn ' t half mean doing this army in, but he ' s as far off as ever from it , and he won ' t now he has failed in this first week. " Lance-Corpl. Miller has now twice been wounded, but this is the first time he has got a Blighty. He has nearly four years of service to his credit, having joined the Colours in September of the year war broke out, and he has been in France nearly three years. ²⁵⁴⁸