Dusty Miller (martyr)
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"Dusty" Miller was a British P.O.W. in Thailand during Second World War. His life and death is attested to in Ernest Gordon's autobiographical work To End All Wars (previously entitled Miracle on the River Kwai).
Miller was a gardener from Newcastle and a Methodist. He became known to Ernest Gordon during a period early on in their three and a half year incarceration under the Japanese. Gordon was dying and was daily attended to by Miller, and "Dinty" Moore, a Roman Catholic P.O.W. In their care Gordon, very unexpectedly, recovered.
Through the examples of Miller and Moore, the recovery of Gordon, and the self-sacrificing examples of numerous others, both faith and hope were restored to many soldiers in the death camps.
At the war's end Gordon was the sole survivor of the three. Upon liberation as he sought news of his friends he found that two weeks before the war's end Miller had been executed as a result of his faith by a Japanese guard.
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- God: Sole Satisfier
- Night (book) by Elie Wiesel
- "Silence", the acclaimed historical novel by Shusaku Endo dealing with the history of Christianity in Japan.
- Christian martyrs
- Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
