The Corps was apparently so impressed that they sent the newly-promoted Major Miller back to South Africa for a full scale recruiting tour. Miller, Lieutenant Bagshaw and two air mechanics arrived in Cape Town with two BE2e aircraft in October 1917. The aircraft, named `Rio de Janeiro Britons Nos. 1 & 2' were assembled and the first leg of the tour started on November 7 1917 when one set off for Port Elizabeth. On touching down on the 18th fairway of the golf course, the machine was unable to avoid a white marked bunker and ended up on it's nose with a splintered airscrew and broken undercarriage. It had taken less than six hours at an average speed of 70 mp (113 km/h) to complete the first long distance flight in South Africa. After the damage was repaired, the aircraft continued on its tour of all the major centres of the country, and 1000 applicants for training in the RFC were accepted.

In the ranks of `Miller's Boys' as they became to be known, were young men who were destined for fame. They included Andrew Weatherby Beauchamp-Proctor, who shot down 41 German aircraft, CO `Boetie' Venter who scored 22 victories, and S M Kihkhead who scored 30. Yet another South African ace was Hugh Saunders who achieved 19 victories and later became Air Chief Marshal of the RAF. In 1919 the surviving BE2e, A-3110, was delivered to the Union Defence authorities, and was one of the aircraft with which the South African Air Force started. Unfortunately, no trace of this aircraft remains, but apparently the broken airscrew now decorates the golf club in Port Elizabeth!