Name
Horace Albert Miles (DCM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
8222
Wiltshire Regiment
1st Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
II. G. 19.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Standon memorials
Pre War
Born in 1894 in Standon, son of Elijah and Caroline Anne Miles. In 1901 they are living in Standon and his father is described as a horse dealer. By 1911 Horace has already joined the army and is listed as a musician with the Wiltshires in South Africa. He must have joined up as a boy soldier, or falsified his age. From his service number he may well have joined up in late 1908.
His father died in 1913, and maybe his mother had moved away, and perhaps that is why his name does not appear on Standon Memorial.
Wartime Service
Said to have enlisted at Devizes, but I cannot find out why. Arrived in France August 1914. His DCM listed in London Gazette 14.01.1916 page 606 New Year List.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Pat Bird
