Harry Miller

Birth: 12/16/1888, New York City

Address: 1300 Prospect Ave., Cleveland, Ohio

Demographics: age 29 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; U.S. Citizen; occupation Longshoreman at Great Lakes Transportation at W. 11th St., Cleveland, OH

Appearance: Height 5' 6 1/2"; Build medium; Eyes blue; Hair brown 

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/24/1918; Rank Private

Service Number: 3487312

Deployment: 7/22/1918 from Brooklyn, NY aboard SS Diomed

Action: 4 Co 1 Inf Repl Regt to May 21/18; 1 Co July Aut Repl Draft to Aug 11/18; Co D 163 Inf to Aug 17/18; Co A 26 Inf to death. Pvt. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. AEF July 21/18 to death.  

Death: 10/5/1918 [5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918]; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: not known

Next of Kin: Alfred Rosner, friend, 2071 E. 19th St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: 

Private Harry Miller's friend, Alfred Rosner (1873-1953), a barber, moved to Long Beach, California after his wife Mary "Mizzi" Wessely Rosner (1886-1914) died at age 28. Rosner was born in Vienna, Austria and had two children, Teddy and Gisela "Gussie." In California, he was involved in gold prospecting.

No information found about Private Harry Miller's family, due in part to the prevalence of the name Harry Miller.