1st Lieutenant, Company K, 307th Infantry, 77th Division. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Miller; wife Norma Maynard Miller; born October 25, 1889 at Galesburg. Entered the service May 9, 1917, at Plattsburg, NY; commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, OTC, Plattsburg, NY, August 15, 1917; commissioned 1st Lieutenant, January 4, 1918, Camp Upton, NY; overseas April 6, 1918; wounded in bayonet drill January 5, 1918; in the major offensive is Vesle drive and at Meuses-Argonne; reported missing September 16, 1918.
LIEUTENANT MILLER MAY HAVE BEEN CARRIED BACK
The Guaranty Trust News contains the following additional about Lieutenant Herbert Miller whose fate for weeks has been involved in uncertainty.
Word has been received by Vice-President Sisson the Lieutenant Herbert L Miller, formerly of the Publicity Department, has been reported missing in France since September 14. Letters from the Colonel of his regiment and from the Captain of his company, K, 307th Regiment, advise that in a severe engagement in the Argonne region, Lieutenant Miller and his men were subjected to a withering fire followed by a frontal attack by the Germans which scattered the company and after the fighting was over and the Germans driven back, Lieutenant Miller was not accounted for. Subsequent search of the region failed to reveal any signs of him, and the officers believe he must have been wounded in the fighting and carried beyond the German lines.
Lieutenant Miller was the son of Alderman and Mrs. Charles Miller.
GALESBURG REPUBLICAN-REGISTER: NOVEMBER 25, 1918
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LIEUTENANT MILLER MAY HAVE BEEN CARRIED BACK
The Guaranty Trust News contains the following additional about Lieutenant Herbert Miller whose fate for weeks has been involved in uncertainty.
Word has been received by Vice-President Sisson the Lieutenant Herbert L Miller, formerly of the Publicity Department, has been reported missing in France since September 14. Letters from the Colonel of his regiment and from the Captain of his company, K, 307th Regiment, advise that in a severe engagement in the Argonne region, Lieutenant Miller and his men were subjected to a withering fire followed by a frontal attack by the Germans which scattered the company and after the fighting was over and the Germans driven back, Lieutenant Miller was not accounted for. Subsequent search of the region failed to reveal any signs of him, and the officers believe he must have been wounded in the fighting and carried beyond the German lines.
Lieutenant Miller was the son of Alderman and Mrs. Charles Miller.
GALESBURG REPUBLICAN-REGISTER: NOVEMBER 25, 1918
For additional information, please visit 99 Lives: The Knox College Gold Star Memorial (knox.edu/99lives).
1st Lieutenant, Company K, 307th Infantry, 77th Division. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Miller; wife Norma Maynard Miller; born October 25, 1889 at Galesburg. Entered the service May 9, 1917, at Plattsburg, NY; commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, OTC, Plattsburg, NY, August 15, 1917; commissioned 1st Lieutenant, January 4, 1918, Camp Upton, NY; overseas April 6, 1918; wounded in bayonet drill January 5, 1918; in the major offensive is Vesle drive and at Meuses-Argonne; reported missing September 16, 1918.
LIEUTENANT MILLER MAY HAVE BEEN CARRIED BACK
The Guaranty Trust News contains the following additional about Lieutenant Herbert Miller whose fate for weeks has been involved in uncertainty.
Word has been received by Vice-President Sisson the Lieutenant Herbert L Miller, formerly of the Publicity Department, has been reported missing in France since September 14. Letters from the Colonel of his regiment and from the Captain of his company, K, 307th Regiment, advise that in a severe engagement in the Argonne region, Lieutenant Miller and his men were subjected to a withering fire followed by a frontal attack by the Germans which scattered the company and after the fighting was over and the Germans driven back, Lieutenant Miller was not accounted for. Subsequent search of the region failed to reveal any signs of him, and the officers believe he must have been wounded in the fighting and carried beyond the German lines.
Lieutenant Miller was the son of Alderman and Mrs. Charles Miller.
GALESBURG REPUBLICAN-REGISTER: NOVEMBER 25, 1918
For additional information, please visit 99 Lives: The Knox College Gold Star Memorial (knox.edu/99lives).
LIEUTENANT MILLER MAY HAVE BEEN CARRIED BACK
The Guaranty Trust News contains the following additional about Lieutenant Herbert Miller whose fate for weeks has been involved in uncertainty.
Word has been received by Vice-President Sisson the Lieutenant Herbert L Miller, formerly of the Publicity Department, has been reported missing in France since September 14. Letters from the Colonel of his regiment and from the Captain of his company, K, 307th Regiment, advise that in a severe engagement in the Argonne region, Lieutenant Miller and his men were subjected to a withering fire followed by a frontal attack by the Germans which scattered the company and after the fighting was over and the Germans driven back, Lieutenant Miller was not accounted for. Subsequent search of the region failed to reveal any signs of him, and the officers believe he must have been wounded in the fighting and carried beyond the German lines.
Lieutenant Miller was the son of Alderman and Mrs. Charles Miller.
GALESBURG REPUBLICAN-REGISTER: NOVEMBER 25, 1918
For additional information, please visit 99 Lives: The Knox College Gold Star Memorial (knox.edu/99lives).
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