John Leonard Miller

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772502

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

February 10th, 1919

Cemetery:

Tournai Communal Cemetery, Allied Extension - Tournai, Belgium - IV.G.

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Lancashire

Birth city:

Liverpool

Address at enlistment:

153 Sydenham Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

153 Sydenham Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Driver

Religious denominations:

Roman Catholic

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Died (Pneumonia) at No. 51 Casualty Clearing Station.

BX February 17, 1919

Dangerously Ill

Mrs. Sarah Miller, 153 Sydenham Street, has received official word from Ottawa that Pte. John Leonard Miller, infantry, was officially reported to be dangerously ill in No. 51 Casualty Clearing Station, on Feb. 9, with bronchial-pneumonia. He was with the 125th First Brants.

BX February 19, 1919

Mrs. Sarah Miller, 153 Sydenham Street, has received official word from Ottawa that Pte. John Leonard Miller, infantry, is reported officially dead at No. 51 Casualty Clearing Station on February 10, 1919. He left Brantford with the 125th Battalion and went over to France with the first company of men from England in October and went all through the fighting and on into Germany without a wound. The sympathy of many will be extended to Mrs. Miller in her bereavement.

BX February 21, 1919

In a list of casualties issued from Ottawa this morning J.L. Miller, Brantford, is reported to have died.

BX March 8, 1919

Private J.L. Miller Makes Sacrifice – Died of Influenza on February 11 – Letter of Condolence Received

Mrs. S. Miller, 153 Sydenham Street has been called on to give up her son, Pte. John Leonard Miller, even after the war is over. Private Miller died of the flu on February 11. The following letter was received by the bereaved from Captain W.B. Durward, his O.C. He writes in part as follows:

It is with deepest sympathy that I write regarding the death of your son here. I received the following message from 51 clearing station:

“Regret to report the death of Pte. Miller, J.L., at 4.40 today. Funeral at 2 o’clock on the 11th, Tournai.

Your son has been with my company since October and he was a bright, clean, good living young man, and we all thought a lot of him. He went on leave to England some time ago and I understood on his way back he contracted the flu, which caused his death.

It is very sad that he should have gone through all the struggle and not be permitted to return to you, but we must remember that God takes his own unto Himself, and he died after doing his part nobly and bravely. At that time he had all his belongings with him and they will all be returned to you through the Record Officer, London.

The officers and men join with me in offering you our heartfelt sympathy in the great loss of your son.