Warrant Officer Percy Miller | DCM
A photograph of C Cox, 1st Oxfordshire and Bucks athletics team in India.
A photo of Stones Athletic Football team in 1920.
A photo of a regimental reunion in around 1960.
A certificate accompanying the Jubilee Medal of 1935.
A newspaper photo of Messrs Hoods Banbury, 1924.
Medal bar including the DCM and 1st and 2nd World War medals.
Miller joined the 43rd Light Infantry (officially 1st Battalion of Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry by then?) before 1913. He served with them in Mesopotamia and was captured and held as a p.o.w. in Turkey. (NB http://www.britisharmedforces.org/li_pages/regiments/obli/ox_index.htm states that only 9 men survived this, of 300 caputured).
May have been repatriated, and then served in France, where he was awarded the DCM. He was then still a private soldier.
After World War One he was probably transferred to the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars, with whom he served in World War Two. In 1935 he became Band Sergeant Major (? BSM).
He also served in India.
CONTRIBUTOR
Janet Ashton
DATE
1913 - 1945
LANGUAGE
deu
ITEMS
7
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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