WW1 casualty medal pair awarded to Corporal William Ernest Miller, of ‘D’ Company, 2nd Battalion Australian Infantry Force, who died of wounds on 9 August 1915, during the Battle of Lone Pine

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WW1 casualty medal pair awarded to Corporal William Ernest Miller, of ‘D’ Company, 2nd Battalion Australian Infantry Force, who died of wounds on 9 August 1915, during the Battle of Lone Pine. Comprising: British War & Victory Medals, impressed named 436 CPL. W. E. MILLER. 2-BN. A.I.F.). Medals court mounted for display. Corporal William Ernest Miller was born in 1886, Ponders End, Middlesex, and was living and working at the Railway Construction Work in Yass, New South Wales before the Great War. He enlisted for service in WW1 on 18 August 1914, joining the 2nd Battalion. He landed with the battalion at Gallipoli on the 25th April 1915 and is shown to have received a bullet wound to left should between 25th and 30th April, and died of gangrene as a result of a bullet wound he received in the left leg during the Battle of Lone Pine on 9 August 1915. The 2nd Battalion suffered considerably during the battle, having started the action with 22 officers and 560 other ranks, they lost 21 officers and 409 other ranks killed or wounded. Miller was buried at sea, presumably having been evacuated to a hospital ship, and is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.