Herbert Miles

Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles (31 July 1850 – 6 May 1926) was a senior British Army officer.

[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 at the Staff College and then, in 1903, became Commander of British Troops in the Cape Colony District.

[2] He was appointed Director of Recruiting and Organisation at Army Headquarters in 1904 and Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1908.

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

Herbert Miles memorial in St Peter's Church, Yoxford , Suffolk