Miller, Howard Roland enlisted with the 48th Highlanders of Canada in September 1939 just weeks after war was declared. He was given the service number B72760.  Following training, much of which was on the Canadian National Exhibition grounds with barracks in the Horse Palace, he, with the entire 1st Battalion, 48th Highlanders, boarded a CN train in Toronto on 17 December bound for Halifax. There they embarked on the Reina del Pacifico as part of a convoy carrying the 1st Canadian contingent to the UK. They disembarked on 30 December at Gourock, Scotland on the Clyde and travelled by train to Corunna Barracks at Aldershot arriving News Years Day for training and subsequently coastal defence.

In England. Pte Roy Miller was granted 7 days leave from 28 May 1941. On 1 February 1943 he was granted Tradesman rate of pay following a course.  The War Diary for July 1943 shows he was granted 5 days leave from 29 May 1943. The battalion embarked the next month, on 28 June, bound for the landings at Sicily. His name was not on the list. This suggests that either he went in the Slow Convoy or he was one of those kept back in England as a future reinforcement or he transferred to another regiment. (more research required)

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