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East Lancashire Regiment.

Sgt George Miller. Burnley Lancashire
Adrianne Wolff Bijsterveld, Helmond, Nederlands.
The Miller family in Blackburn Lancashire

Narrator and collator

Rob Miller

Introduction.

My families history and my personal history has been determined by the course of the war and international friction. My father George Miller hailed from Burnley in Lancashire. He enlisted into the army prior to the start of the second world war and rose to the rank of sergeant in charge of a Bren carrier platoon. This found him outside the front door of my mothers family home in Bijsterveld in Helmond Nederland's my mothers home in 1944. My mother Adrianne Wolff was in the living room at the time and as they met so their love blossomed.

This story is not an unfamiliar one for many Englsh, Dutch, German French, Polish people and many others. And 60 years on one wonders what research has been done on tracing the lives of the families of these war couples and how this affects their views of their nationality or europeanness.

Sections of the story.

My fathers youth and army days 1935-1946.
His pals and stories.
A bridge to far.Mums stories.
Helmond stories. The last cat etc.
The push into Germany Orions belt.
After the war.
Blackburn and civvy life.
A Dutch girl in Lancashire.
Brief biography of George and Adje Miller.
Family history pre war and surprising twist in the tale.

I aim to write a bit more about the lives of my parents, their wartime experiences told as story's when I was young and how to paste some photographs in.