Name
Alfred Miles
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/05/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/7071
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
Christchurch Plaque, now in Holy Trinity Church, Bengeo
Pre War
Born in 1888 in Hertford and christened on 6 Jun 1888 in Hertford, son of Alfred and Mary Ann (Odwell) Miles of 14 Port Vale, Hertford. He had three brothers and two sisters. In 1901 they were living at 27b Cowbridge, Hertford. By 1911 they had moved to 10 The Folly, Hertford, his father was employed as a general Labourer as was Alfred.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford. Alfred joined the Army in 1914 and was sent to Belgium with his battalion on 6th October 1914. They first saw action on October 18th along the Menin – Albert road, they followed this in action at the 1st Battle of Ypres during October and November. The following year after taking part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March, the 2nd battalion fought at Festubert in May and it was during an attack on a German trench there on the 18th that Alfred was killed, his body was not recovered.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Terry & Glenis Collins
