- SURNAME
Duppa-Miller
- FORENAME
John Bryan Peter (Jack)
- UNIT
HMS President, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
- RANK
T/Sub Lieutenant
- NUMBER
- AWARD
George Cross, Kings Commendation for Brave Conduct
- PLACE
England 1940
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 22.5.1903 Stetchford, Birmingham
educated Rugby School
educated Hertford College, Oxford
Deputy County Education Officer, Hampshire 1930-35
Senior Assistant Education Officer, Northamptonshire 1935-
commissioned RNVR August 1940 (T/S/Lt)
HMS King Alfred, HMS Vernon and HMS President 1940
T/Lieutenant 16.11.1940
T/A/Lt Commander December 1943
relinquished commission July 1945
Inspector General, Ministry of Education, Addis Ababa 1945-47
Education Department, Kenya 1947-57
Secretary to Kenya Coffee Marketing Board 1960-61
Secretary to Tanganyika Coffee Board 1961-62
Assistant Secretary and Marketing Officer, Ministry of Lands and Settlement, Kenya 1963-65
autobiography "Saints and Parachutes" (1951)
married Barbara Buckmaster 1926 (dissolved) (3 sons)
married Clare Harding 1944 (died)
married Greta Landby 1977
son Hilary Duppa Miller (1929-2015)
died 15.12.1994 Somerset West, South Africa
London Gazette 35041, 10th January 1941, Page 259 (GC)
WEB LINKS:
• https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35041/supplement/259• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Miller_(Royal_Navy_officer)
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10378379/Medals-Blitz-bomb-disposal-hero-sold-50-000.html
FINDAGRAVE:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/235703207/john-bryan_peter-duppa-miller
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