Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29740, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29740/supplements/8871. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 12639 Private James Miller, late Royal Lancaster Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery. On 30/31 July 1916 at Bazentin-le-Petit, France, his battalion was consolidating a position after its capture by assault. Private Miller was ordered to take an important message under heavy shell and rifle fire and to bring back a reply at all costs. He was compelled to cross the open, and on leaving the trench was shot almost immediately in the back, the bullet coming out through his abdomen. In spite of this, with heroic courage and self-sacrifice, he compressed with his hand the gaping wound in his abdomen, delivered his message, staggered back with the answer, and fell at the feet of the officer to whom he delivered it. He gave his life with a supreme devotion to duty.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29740, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29740/supplements/8871. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 12639 Private James Miller, late Royal Lancaster Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery. On 30/31 July 1916 at Bazentin-le-Petit, France, his battalion was consolidating a position after its capture by assault. Private Miller was ordered to take an important message under heavy shell and rifle fire and to bring back a reply at all costs. He was compelled to cross the open, and on leaving the trench was shot almost immediately in the back, the bullet coming out through his abdomen. In spite of this, with heroic courage and self-sacrifice, he compressed with his hand the gaping wound in his abdomen, delivered his message, staggered back with the answer, and fell at the feet of the officer to whom he delivered it. He gave his life with a supreme devotion to duty.