DEATHS.
FOR THE EMPIRE'S CAUSE.
MILLER. — Believed by Court of Inquiry to have been killed while in action at the Dardanelles, David Pryde Miller, second son of Robert Miller, Seacliff, aged 24 years. -Otago Daily Times, 10/2/1916.
David Miller was working as a farm labourer on the family farm at Seacliff when he enlisted in the 4th Reinforcements in 1915.
The circumstances of David Miller's death, on September 27th, 1915, seem to be a mystery. The Official History of his Regiment, the Otago, report that, after the furious and tragic attacks of the August offensive on Gallipoli, the Regiment went to the island of Mudros to rest and recuperate.
They were relieved on the Peninsula on September 14th and returned to the fight on November 11.
A Court of Enquiry in Egypt found he had died on the 27th. He has no known grave.
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