Name
Jack Miles
17 July 1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/09/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/30132
The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
UNICORN CEMETERY, VENDHUILE
III. F. 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Barkway Village Memorial, St Mary Magdalene Church Memorial, Barkway, Newsells Memorial Stone
Pre War
Jack Miles was born on 17 July 1899 at Newsells, Barkway, Herts, the son and youngest child of Walter and Rachel Miles, and baptised on 6 April 1916 at St Mary Magdalene Church, Barkway, Herts. 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 he was living with his widowed father, brothers Arthur, David, Albert and Alfred and sister Rosanna at Newsells.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Barkway and joined the Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, serving with the 7th Battalion in France.
He died of wounds received in action on 21 September 1918 and is buried in Unicorn Cemetery, Vendhuile, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3 9s 1d and pay owing of £1 10s 11d. a pension exists in respect of Jack and brothers Alfred and Arthur but there is no indication of the amount paid.
Brother to Alfred who served with the Suffolk Regiment and was killed in action on 13 October 1915, and brother to Arthur who served with the Bedfordshire Regiment and was killed in action on 16 November 1916.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Paul Johnson, Adrian Pitts, Malcolm Lennox
