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Wartime Heritage
ASSOCIATION
Remembering World War II
Yarmouth Connections
Name:
Earl Glawson Miller
Rank:
Stoker
Service No:
21692
Service:
Royal Canadian Navy
H.M.C.S. Ottawa
Date of Birth:
March 11, 1919
Place of Birth:
Halifax, NS
Date of Enlistment:
December 4, 1939
Place of Enlistment:
Halifax, NS
Address At Enlistment:
Halifax, NS
Age at Enlistment:
21
Height: 5 Feet, 8 ½ inches
Weight: 133 lbs
Complexion: Fair
Eyes:
Blue
Hair: Blone
Previous Military:
Nelson Sea Cadets for 12 years
Trade:
Clerk
Marital Status:
Single
Religion:
Presbyterian
Next of Kin:
Benjamin Miller (Brother) Halifax, NS
Date of Death:
September 13, 1942
Age at Death:
23
Memorial:
Halifax Memorial (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Memorial Reference:
Panel 5.
The 77th name on the WWII list of the Yarmouth War Memorial
Commemorated on page 99 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on March 3
Earl Glawson Miller was the son of Frederick C. P. Miller, and of Bessie M. Miller of Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
He served on the mine-layer HMCS Sankaty between September 25, 1940 and November 5, 1940 and
was transferred to HMCS Niagara where he served between November 5, 1940 and July 11, 1941. He
then served on HMCS Ottawa from January 5, 1942 and was lost at sea when the ship was torpedoed
and sunk by German submarine U-91 on September 13, 1942. 114 crewmen lost their lives.
Sources and Information:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
http://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol02/tnm_2_2_1-27.pdf
Earl Glawson Miller
HMCS Ottawa