Source: Per the record of promotion for Yeo, Augustus Beere, Lt.
Family Search: Corporal Ernest Goodliffe Miller was born on 14 May 1892, in Louth, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Elizabeth Mary Lane. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1911 and lived in Springwells, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1924 and Dearborn, Wayne, Michigan, United States for about 5 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as carpenter. He died on 31 January 1976, in Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Acacia Park Cemetery, Beverly Hills, Southfield Township, Oakland, Michigan, United States.
ERNEST G. MILLER, president of the Dearborn City Council, has done a great many important things on the spur of the moment.
He joined the Canadian forces in 1914, 20 minutes after the idea occurred to him. It took him that long to get from Detroit to Windsor. Arriving in England, he married his boyhood sweetheart in Lincolnshire. His training finished, he was sent to the front; he was wounded at Ypres.
After the war, he brought Mrs. Miller and their son, who remained a stranger to his father until he was three years old, back to the United States.
His business here is contracting and building, but as a youth he worked in Detroit shipyards.
He cannot take an excursion trip on the steamer Put-in-Bay without feeling a sensation of vicarious ownership because he helped put the ship together.
Though he was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, he dislikes tea, and drinks coffee. His favorite dish is roast beef cooked with potatoes.
The principal memories of his childhood have to do with playing on the banks of the brook of which Tennyson wrote.
“I fell into it at regular intervals,” he laughed.
His favorite color is blue, and he likes bright blue ties. In them he always wears a stickpin in the form of a tiny pearl-handled bayonet, a souvenir of Ypres which a friend brought him after a European trip.
His only recent extensive travel was accomplished last summer, when in two days he decided to go to England, prepared to go, and went.
In Dearborn he is nicknamed “Charlie Dawes” by his fellow councilmen, because of his ever-present pipe.
One of his hobbies is music. He sings second tenor in a quartet which meets regularly. He prefers oratorios and Gilbert and Sullivan songs to other music, he says.
Detroit Free Press. Tue, Jan 31, 1933 ·Page 20.
Ernest G. Miller, Dearborn Official
Services for Ernest G. Miller, a former Dearborn City Council president, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Baum Funeral Home, 36885 Goddard, Romulus.
Mr. Miller, 83, of New Boston, died Saturday at Riverside Hospital in Trenton after a long illness.
He was a self-employed cabinetmaker.
He served on the Dearborn City Council in the 1930s. He was a former board chairman of Wayne County General Hospital, a past president of the New Boston Rotary Club and a member of Olive Branch Lodge 542 F&AM of Dearborn.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; a son, John E.; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Garner; five grandchidlren and three great-grandchildren.
Visiting hours will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Burial will be in Acacia Park Cemetery.
Detroit Free Press. Mon, Feb 02, 1976 ·Page 5.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 