Name
Arthur Miles
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/07/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
15192
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
III. J. 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Aspenden Village Memorial, Buntingford Town Memorial, We are not aware of any memorial in Layston
Pre War
Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Miles, of Bank Cottage, Baldock Rd., Buntingford, Herts. Born in Layston and was living in Buntingford when he enlisted in Royston.
Arthur was born in 1894 to Thomas and Eliza Miles and in the 1901 census they were living along with five brothers and sisters in Bridgefoot, Buntingford. By 1911 they had moved to Meeting Alley, Baldock Road, Buntingford. Arthur was a farm labourer.
Enlisted Royston.
Wartime Service
Died of wounds.
Additional Information
On the Commonwealth War Graves site it gives his parents address later as Bank Cottage, Baldock Lane, Buntingford. His brother Walter also lost his life during the war. His headstone inscription, chosen by his mother, reads: “We only want dear lord to be united to our boy from his loved ones“.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson
Jonty Wild, Carol Emery