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Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles, (31 July 1850 – 6 May 1926) was a senior

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officer. He was

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from 1908 to 1912, and Governor of Gibraltar from 1913 until 1918 during the

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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

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in 1880.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
/ref> He then rejoined the army becoming Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General at the

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in 1889 and then Assistant Adjutant-General at

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in 1893. In 1898 he was appointed Commandant of the

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. He served in the

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, from early February 1900 as Deputy Adjutant-General and

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for the

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. After the war he returned to his role at the Staff College and then, in 1903, became

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of British Troops in the

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District. He was appointed Director of Recruiting and Organisation at Army Headquarters in 1904 and

in 1908. He was Governor of Gibraltar from 1913; he retired in 1919.

Legacy

Sir Herbert Miles Road Sir Herbert Miles Road is an eastern coastal road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It was a new road in 1917 replacing a track that previously gave access to Catalan Bay Catalan Bay ( es, La Caleta) is a bay and fishing village ...

in Gibraltar is named in his honour as is

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. There is a memorial to him in St Peter's Church in Yoxford, Suffolk.

References

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