UNCLE AND NEPHEW

LEADING STOKER

TOM MURGATORYD MILLER

Tom Murgatroyd Miller
War Graves Certificate

Mr. and Mrs. Miller, of Manor House Farm, Knottingley, have received word that their son, Leading Stoker Tom Murgatroyd Miller, who was previously reported missing, is now presumed to have been drowned when his ship, H.M.S. Panther, was sunk.

He was 22 and joined the Navy in June 1939 being called up in the following September and posted to a destroyer which took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. During the operations his ship was attacked by 12 German planes, six of which she shot down before her steering gear was blown away, which caused her to collide with a Spanish trawler and sink. Stoker Miller was a survivor and was posted to the Panther. He took part in the North African and Salerno landings.

Before joining the Navy he was employed by Messrs. Stephen Toulson and Sons, sand and gravel merchants.  His father, Mr. 'Bob' Miller, was in the K.O.Y.L.I. in the last war, was wounded at Bethune in 1919 and had both his legs amputated in a German prison camp.

PILOT OFFICER

GEORGE HENRY MILLER

The Miller family have sustained a double blow, for it is learned that Stoker Miller's uncle, Pilot Officer G. H. Miller, D.F.M., who had been reported as missing since February, must now be presumed killed.  He had made 67 flights over enemy territory.  Pilot Officer Miller was educated at the King's School, Pontefract and before joining the Air Force, in which he had five years service, he was a chemist's assistant.  He was awarded the D.F.M. in 1942 and in recognition of the honour, members of the National Association of Discharged Soldiers and Sailors Club presented him with a gold watch.

As published in the Pontefract and Castleford Express
Submitted by Mrs. A Haggerty

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