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Location:
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Royal Parade, Parkville, MELBOURNE CITY, 3052
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Local Government Area:
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MELBOURNE CITY
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Heritage Type:
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Memorial Artwork, Window
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Description:
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Subject
St. Martin of Tours
Text
St. Martin
Inscription
Plaque: In loving memory of Albert Guy Miller M.B. B.S., Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps Attached to the Middlesex Regiment. A member of this College who was killed in action in France on December 29th 1915, aged 21 years. I have fought the good fight I have finished my course, I have kept the Faith. This window was erected in his honour.
Description & History
The Miller memorial was the first for the chapel to be ordered from J. Dudley Forsyth of Hampstead, London, by Mrs. Albert Miller, mother of Captain Miller. Forsyth was later asked to prepare designs for the whole Chapel scheme, which he did, in expectation of the majority of windows being war memorials. It seemed that his slowness in completing the first two commissions may have contributed to further orders being placed with local Melbourne firm, Brooks, Robinson & Co.
Albert Guy Miller was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School before attending the Medical School at the University of Melbourne; he graduated in 1910. Shortly after the outbreak of war, he proceeded to England and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to 12 Battalion Middlesex Regiment. Captain Miller was killed in action at Fricourt in France on 29 December 1915, and was buried at Meaulte Military Cemetery.
References & Acknowledgements
AWM Commemorative Roll; Caroline Miley, Trinity College Chapel: an appreciation, pp.55-58; Mercury, 4 January 1915, p.4; Sydney Morning Herald, 4 January 1915, p.9; Argus, 26 December 1916, p.6; http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/campus_life/chapel/history/windows
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Year Construction Ended:
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1922
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Conflicts Commemorated:
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First World War 1914-18
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Designer/Architect:
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Forsyth, J Dudley
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