Birth 4655/1892 MILLER, SELWYN DAVID & JANE M E ASHFIELD
Death 19477/1964 MILLER, SELWYN DAVID & JANE ELIZABETH M GLEN INNES
Burial Plot Anglican G.
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Son of David & Jane Elizabeth Miller
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Selwyn Miller - Date of Death 05/04/1964, Granted on 11/05/1965
Item Number Or Control Symbol: Series 4-592148
Descriptive Note: Selwyn Miller - Date of Death 05/04/1964, Granted on 11/05/1965
Access Direction: Effect: Early; Duration: 5 years from grant of probate
Location: Western Sydney Records Centre, Kingswood.
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MILLER, Selwyn
Service Details
Branch of Service: Army
Conflict: World War I
Date of Enlistment: 04/06/1917
Personal Details
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 1892
Place of Birth: Sydney NSW
Address (at enlistment): Canberra ACT
Occupation: Farmer
Next of Kin: David Miller (father), Canberra ACT
Unit and Rank Details
Final Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Final Unit: 1011 Company, Army Service Corps (British Army)
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Commemoration
Weetangera Honor Roll, St. John's Schoolhouse Museum, Reid Hall Memorial Grove, Victoria Street, Hall, ACT
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Notes
Selwyn Miller was born in Sydney in 1892, the son of Colonel David Miller, who became Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs and Administrator of the Federal Capital Territory. He was sworn in as an officer cadet with the British Army on 4 June 1917 and appointed as a 2nd Lieutenant serving with No.1011 Company, Army Service Corps in Palestine. Miller arrived back in Australia in September 1919. He held leases of land at Belconnen from 1913 until 1924 when he moved to Wellingrove in the Glen Innes district. Miller was also a foundation member of the Canberra Rifle Club. He died near Glen Innes in 1964.
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In 1913 a lease was issued for the property 'Belconnen' to Colonel David Miller, Administrator for the Federal Capital Territory. In mid 1913 5,000 acres of the Belconnen property was leased to Selwyn Miller under circumstances that caused serious questions to be asked in Parliament. Hansard indicates King O’Malley approved the lease for up to 10 years; just days after Selwyn’s application was lodged.1
In 1918 Selwyn Miller took over that part of the property that had been leased to his father.
1922 saw the departure of the Millers.