Name
Walter Miles
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/09/1916
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
4/7289
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CONNAUGHT CEMETERY, THIEPVAL
I. D. 15.
France
Headstone Inscription
Gone to be with Jesus never to be forgotten
UK & Other Memorials
Aspenden Village Memorial, Aspenden, Buntingford War Memorial, Buntingford, Not on the Wyddial memorials
Pre War
Son of Thomas and Eliza Miles, of Buntingford, Herts; husband of Emma Ann Miles, of Meeting Alley, Baldock Lane, Buntingford, Herts. Born Wyddial, lived in Buntingford and enlisted Hertford.
Walter was born in 1885 to Thomas and Eliza Miles and in the 1901 census they were living along with five brothers and sisters in Bridgefoot, Buntingford. By 1911 Walter was married to Emma and they had two children one of one year and one one day old. Walter was a farm labourer and they were boarding with a family in the High Street, Buntingford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford. Killed in France.
Additional Information
His brother Arthur also lost his life during the war. His headstone inscription, chosen by his wife, reads: “Gone to be with Jesus never to be forgotten“. After his death his wife was recorded as living at Meeting Allley, Baldock Lane, Buntingford.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson
Jonty Wild, Carol Emery
