Captain Joseph Esmond Miller
Unit : 181 Airlanding Field Ambulance, attached 2nd South Staffordshires.
Army No. : 163133
Awards : Military Cross
Captain Miller was the Medical Officer of the 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment.
This officer landed in the sea, swam ashore and took part in the severe fighting on the way to the Battalion locality. During the subsequent fighting Captain Miller carried out his medical work with skill and determination, dealing with a very large number of casualties often under fire.
He inspired all his medical orderlies with his own courage and devotion to duty.
Promoted to Major and occupying the post of Deputy Assistant Director Medical Services at 1st Airborne Divisional Headquarters, Miller participated in the Battle of Arnhem, where, like the overwhelming majority of the medical personnel, he stayed behind, when the Division withdrew to the Allied lines, to care for the wounded who could not be evacuated, and was taken prisoner. He spent the remainder of the war at Stalag IXC, most probably working in the camp hospital there.
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