Name
Joseph William Miles
20 January 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/01/1920
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
41594
Royal Field Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
E. C. 2. 11.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
The headstone, was ordered with no inscription.
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Joseph William Miles was born on 20 January 1890 to Charles and Eliza Miles in Bishop's Stortford, where they were living at Windhill. He was baptised on 30 March 1890 at St Michaels, Bishop's Stortford. His father died in late 1891 and his mother remarried to Alfred Smith. On the 1911 Census he was living with his stepfather and mother at 55 Bartholomew Road, Bishop's Stortford, Herts and working as a carpenter.
Wartime Service
Joseph served with the Royal Field Artillery and rose to the rank of Corporal. He survived the war but died shortly afterwards at home in Bishop's Stortford.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
