Albert Miller

Bank: National Provincial Bank

Place of work: Overseas branch

Died: 30 May 1940

Albert Robert Miller was born on 10 June 1915, the son of Charles David and Charlotte Harriet Miller. Charlotte died when Albert was four years old. When he was 11 years old, his father remarried Albert’s stepmother, Edith (née Fry). He was educated at Cranmore College, Merton and Rutlish Secondary School. He joined the staff of National Provincial Bank as a probationer at Wimbledon Common branch in March 1933. He was promoted to junior clerk in June 1933, and to clerk in 1935. He moved to the Overseas branch in 1938. 

Miller was called up for war service at the end of August 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. He went to France with the Royal Corps of Signals, and was killed in action on 30 May 1940, during the Battle of Dunkirk. Signalman Miller was 24 years old.