Name: Graydon George Miller Rank: Acting Corporal Service No. 71320 Service: Royal Flying Corps / Royal Air Force Date of Birth: April 28, 1894 Place of Birth: Yarmouth, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: April 11, 1917 Place of Enlistment: Toronto, Ontario Address at Enlistment: Yarmouth, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 22 Height: 5 feet, 6 inches Occupation: Motor Cyclist, Motor Cycle Fitter Marital Status: Single (at enlistment) Next of Kin: Avard Herbert Miller (Father) at enlistment Mrs. Beulah Agnes Miller (Wife) after July 1918 Date of Discharge: January 8, 1919 Age: 24 Date of Death: February 19, 1962 Age: 67 Cemetery: Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Graydon George Miller was the son of Avard Herbert Miller (1866-1953) and Hannah Sarah (Allen) Miller (1873-1953), the brother of Earle Russell Miller (1898-1990), Frank Page Miller (1900-1967), and Clara Maude Miller (1900-1993) and the husband of Beulah Agnes (Hersey) Miller (1895-1952). Graydon’s brother Earle Russell Miller also served during the First World War with the 219th Highland Battalion. Graydon enlisted with the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), which was known by that name in 1917, before it became the Royal Air Force on April 1, 1918. He was promoted to Acting Corporal on May 27, 1918. He served in Canda from April 11, 1917, until January 8, 1919. He was initially stationed at the Recruits Depot in Toronto, Ontario where he enlisted April 11, 1917, until April 27, 1917. Next, he was assigned to the 79th Canadian Training Squadron, 42nd Wing until October 26, 1918, at Camp Mohawk in Hastings County, Deseronto, and the 84th Canadian Training Squadron, 42nd Wing at Deseronto until he was discharged at the end of the war. He married Beulah Agnes Hersey on July 23, 1918. They had one son, Hubert Kingsley Miller (1927-1927). 8 Yarmouth County men served with the Royal Flying Corps and its successor the Royal Air Force – Arthur Spencer Allen, Charles Kingsley Crocker, Joseph Liboire D’Eon, Hedley Jenkins Ewan, David Carlyle Fuller, John Edwin Goudey, and Calvin Valpey Marshall. George Graydon Miller died Feb 19, 1962, and is interred at the Mountain Cemetery in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Sources: British RAF Airmen 1912-1919 findagrave photos: Courtesy of David Hahn