Myles Max Miller, son of David Edwin Miller and Lenora Nettie Miller, the latter since deceased, was born at De Witt, Nebraska, October 24th, 1894. He was a linotype operator, a mechanic in his line, and was employed on the staff of the Reno Evening Gazette prior to his entrance into the army. The following extract from the Gazette published at the time of his death, gives an idea of the high standing he had among his fellow employees: “Miller had hopes of seeing, over in France, some of his old army comrades with whom he associated on the Mexican border, and expected soon to be in the trenches fighting the Germans. He had hopes of entering a training camp and becoming an officer, his previous service in the army having been such that he was well qualified to enter a training camp at once.

“Company, Attention,’ ‘Column, right,’ ‘Port ,arms,’ and other army expressions were his chief exclamations while setting type, and he kept his associates on the Gazette composing room smiling from morning until night with his descriptions of life on the Mexican border and his army expressions. The eager young patriot joyously welcomed his call to the colors in June, 1918, and on the 20th of July he was sworn in as a private in the 8th company, 2d Battalion, 166th Depot Brigade, at Camp Lewis, Washington. A month later (August 26th) he was assigned to Battery E, 38th Field Artillery, in which he was made a corporal on October 1st. But his rising career was cut short when the dread pneumonia stepped in to claim his life. He was taken sick at Camp Lewis, and died there on the 26th of October, 1918. He now lies in the Rose Hill Cemetery in the town where he was born—DeWitt, Nebraska.

Corporal Myles Miller was a true lover of the Stars and Stripes and his country. He left behind him the memory of a brave man who welcomed the call of duty. He leaves his father, David Edwin Miller, of Belleville, Kansas, a brother, Frank Miller, also of Belleville, and a sister, Mrs. Meda Gilliland, 2807 Pinkney Street, Omaha, Nebraska