Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (364595 E. J. J. Miller, O.S. 1, H.M.S. Cardiff) very fine £20-30

Ernest James John Miller was born at Portsmouth in December 1883 and entered the Royal Navy in March 1906. Appointed an Officer’s Cook, he had risen to the 1st Class grade of his rate by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, when he was serving in the cruiser H.M.S. Boadicea. He remained in the same ship until October 1916 and was consequently present at Jutland. By the War’s end Miller had also served in the cruiser Chatham and the battleship Malaya, latterly in the rate of Officer’s Steward 1st Class. He was still serving at the end of the 1920s and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in September 1923.