Lieutenant General
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Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles, (31 July 1850 – 6 May 1926) was a senior
British Army
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officer. He was
Quartermaster-General to the Forces
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from 1908 to 1912, and
Governor of Gibraltar
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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.
He had a change of career and became a barrister in the
Inner Temple
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in 1880.
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He then rejoined the army becoming Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General at the War Office
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in 1889 and then Assistant Adjutant-General at Aldershot Command
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in 1893.[ In 1898 he was appointed ]Commandant
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of the Staff College, Camberley
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He served in the ]Second Boer War
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, from early February 1900 as Deputy Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff
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for the Natal Field Force.[ After the war he returned to his role at the Staff College and then, in 1903, became ]Commander
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...
of British Troops in the Cape Colony
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District.[ He was appointed Director of Recruiting and Organisation at Army Headquarters in 1904 and ]Quartermaster-General to the Forces
The Quartermaster-General to the Forces (QMG) is a senior general in the British Army. The post has become symbolic: the Ministry of Defence organisation charts since 2011 have not used the term "Quartermaster-General to the Forces"; they simply ...
in 1908.[
He was ]Governor of Gibraltar
The governor of Gibraltar is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. The governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British government. The role of the governor is to act as the ...
from 1913; he retired in 1919.[
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Legacy
Sir Herbert Miles Road in Gibraltar is named in his honour as is Sir Herbert Miles Promenade
Sir Herbert Miles Promenade served as an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
Description
The promenade runs along the Line Wall Curtain, from King's Bastion at the north end to Wellington Front on the south. It ...
. There is a memorial to him in St Peter's Church in Yoxford
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, Suffolk.
References
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* Obituary of Lieut.-General Sir Herbert Miles, The Times, 21 May 1926 (pg. 11; Issue 44277; col E)
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1850 births
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