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Sir Euan Alfred Bews Miller, (5 July 1897 – 30 August 1985) was a senior

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officer who fought in both

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s and later went on to be Military Secretary.

Military career

Euan Miller was born on 5 July 1897 and was educated at

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and, later, at the

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. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 17 April 1915.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
/ref> He served with his regiment during the

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in France and

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. Miller remained in the army between the wars, attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1926 to 1927, alongside fellow students such as

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, Charles Hudson, Edward Williams, George Wood, John Whitaker,

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. He became a General Staff Officer in Northern Ireland District in 1928 and Brigade Major for Southern Command in 1930, moving on to be a General Staff Officer at the

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in 1934 and at the Staff College, Camberley in 1936. He was promoted to brevet major on 1 July 1934. Miller served in the

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as a General Staff Officer at the General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force and then as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Defence of Calais in 1940. He spent the remainder of the war as a

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. After the war, he became Deputy Military Secretary and then Commander of

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District in Germany from 1948. He was then General Officer Commanding 7th Armoured Division, before being appointed Chief of Staff at

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in 1949 and Military Secretary in 1951. He retired in 1955. In 1955 Miller led an inquiry into under-age soldiers in the

, which made various recommendations in the form of a

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and led to higher education standards and improved training for boys destined to join the army. In retirement, Miller became

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of the

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Family

In 1926 Miller married Margaret Petrena Brocklebank and they went on to have one son and two daughters.Royds of Brereton
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References

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