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Photo : Bertie of the Find a Grave website

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Lieutenant Duncan Crerar Reeve MILLAR.

13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, attached 21st T M battery RFA. Killed 10 April 1918.
Buried HAVERSKERQUE BRITISH CEMETERY.

The following comments are from the Find a Grave website;-
"Lt. Duncan Crerar Reeve Millar enlisted in the Public Schools Battalion at the outbreak of war in 1914. He was wounded in action and sent back to Blighty for treatment. Subsequently, he returned to France serving with the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) before being transferred to the 13th Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Hussars). At the time of his death he was attached to the 121st Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery. He died on the 10th April 1918 from wounds sustained in action during the Battle of the Lys. He was 26 years old. £

The following comments are from Robert Coulson's Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Duncan Millar landed with the 13th battalion at Le Havre on June 6th 1915.
He saw action with the battalion in the Maroc and Loos sectors and in November of 1917 fought during the Cambrai offensive in actions at Bourlon Wood.
By the time of the German Spring Offensive in March of 1918 Lt Millar had been attached to the 21st Trench Mortar Battery and was with them when he was wounded in action in the Hazebrouck area.
Lt Duncan Oscar Reeve Millar died of his wounds on April 10th 1918."

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