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Herbert Miles
British Army general (1850–1926) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles (31 July 1850 – 6 May 1926) was a senior British Army officer. He was Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1908 to 1912, and Governor of Gibraltar from 1913 until 1918 during the First World War.
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Military career
Miles was commissioned into the 101st Regiment of Foot in 1869.[1]
He had a change of career and became a barrister in the Inner Temple in 1880.[2]
He then rejoined the army becoming Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General at the War Office in 1889 and then Assistant Adjutant-General at Aldershot Command in 1893.[2] In 1898 he was appointed Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley.[2]
He served in the Second Boer War, from early February 1900 as Deputy Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff for the Natal Field Force.[2][3] After the war he returned to his role as commandant of the Staff College and then, in 1903, became Commander of British Troops in the Cape Colony District.[2][4] He was appointed Director of Recruiting and Organisation at Army Headquarters in 1904 and Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1908.[2]
He succeeded Lieutenant General John Wimburn Laurie as colonel of the Royal Munster Fusiliers in May 1912[5] and governor of Gibraltar from 1913; he retired in 1919.[2]
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Legacy
Sir Herbert Miles Road in Gibraltar is named in his honour[6] as is Sir Herbert Miles Promenade.[7] There is a memorial to him in St Peter's Church in Yoxford, Suffolk.[8]
References
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