Horrie Miller (aviator)

Horrie Miller
Born	Horace Clive Miller (1893-04-30)30 April 1893 Ballarat, Victoria
Died	1980 (aged 86–87)
Occupation	Pilot
Spouse	Dame Mary Durack ​ (m. 1938)​
Children	Robin Miller

Miller and friends with DH 60 Gipsy moth VH-UJX. Miller is 2nd from left

Horace Clive Miller OBE (30 April 1893 – 1980) was a pioneering Australian aviator and co-founder of MacRobertson Miller Airlines (MMA).

He flew in the 1929 Western Australian Centenary Air Race, winning handicap honours.^[1][2]

The main road to the Perth International Airport Terminal 1 is named Horrie Miller Drive in honour of the aviator.^[3]

On 2 December 1938 He married Mary Durack

See also

• West Australian Airways

Footnotes

1. H.C. Miller - Horrie Miller and the centenary air race of 1929. Sunday Independent (23 hours 31 minutes 58 seconds), 16 Dec. 1984, p. 18
2. "Western Australian Aviators Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 13 April 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
3. "Horrie Miller Drive, Perth Airport WA 6105 Street Information - allhomes".

References

• Access road to new International Airport to be named "Horrie Miller Drive" in honour of WA pioneer aviator The West Australian, 1 Dec. 1984, p. 40
• Dunn, Frank, (1984) Speck in the sky : a history of Airlines of Western Australia Perth, W.A: Airlines of W.A ISBN 0-9590823-0-1
• Lewis, Julie (1987) Interview with Dunbar Hooper, and Horrie Miller (reference to Woods, Jimmy, 1893-1975 and WA Airways ) Battye Library Oral History transcript
• Miller, Horace Clive (Horrie) (1968 or 1976) Early birds : magnificent men of Australian aviation between the wars Adelaide : Rigby, Series Seal books ISBN 0-7270-0135-3
• Court, Charles, Sir, (1995) Horace Clive Miller ("Horrie Miller"), 1893-1980 : from barnstorming joyrides to boardrooms / an address by Sir Charles Court in presenting the 1995 Sir Norman Brearley oration at W.A. Club, Perth, W.A. on 23 August 1995. Perth, W.A.: Civil Aviation Historical Society (W.A. Division), 1995.
• National Archives of Australia World War I service records search, accessed 7 July 2007.
• Mervyn W. Prime, 2011, "Horrie Miller", Aviation Australia, accessed 16 June 2011.
• Perkins, Matthew, 2008, "Who is Horrie Miller?", ABC Radio Perth, accessed 6 August 2019