Lieutenant-Colonel C.G. Millett
2nd Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry

Recce party with the C.O. and his bodyguard left to recce the area of previous nights incidents. Explosions heard and report received that the Commanding Officer Lt. Col. C.G. Millett, O.B.E., his bodyguard and two other ranks had been killed in a minefield. The party had approached the body of a dead German and were examining the corpse when the explosion occurred.

(War Diary, 20 Dec 1944)

Born on 8 April 1903 in Reading, Berkshire, Cecil George Millett was a commissioned officer with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry since 1923. He was 2nd Battalion adjutant from 1931 to 1934 and was promoted to captain in 1933. By 1942, he was acting lieutenant-colonel and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire as part of the King’s Birthday Honours.

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