Name
Alfred Frank Miles
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
9306
Suffolk Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 37 and 38.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Barkway Village Memorial, St Mary Magdalene Church Memorial, Barkway, Newsell Memorial Stone
Pre War
Alfred Frank Miles was born in 1895 in Newsells, Barkway, Hertfordshire, the son of Walter and Rachel Miles, and baptised on 7 February 1896 at St Mary Magdalene Church, Barkway. He was one of eleven children, but one died in infancy.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Newsells where his father was working as a bricklayer. His mother died in 1910, aged 43, and in 1911, 15 year old Alfred was living with his widowed father and brothers Arthur, David, Albert, and Jack, and sister Rosanna. Alfred was then working as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Cambridge and joined the Suffolk Regiment, serving with the 7th battalion in France from 30 May 1915.
Alfred was killed in action on 13 October 1915, but has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial,
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £4 and pay owing of £3 19s 5d. A pension card exists in respect of his three sons, Jack, Alfred and Arthur, but there is no indication of the amount of pension paid.
Brother to Jack Miles who served with the Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment and died of wounds received in action on 21 September 1918 and brother to Arthur Miles who served with the Bedfordshire Regiment and was killed in action on 16 November 1916.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Paul Johnson, Adrian Pitts, Malcolm Lennox
