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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Irish Fusiliers
Division:
9th Bn.
Birth:
September 6, 1888
Kingston, Jamaica
Enlistment:
November 18, 1914
Claresholm, Alberta
Death:
August 17, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. F. 18.
Additional information
Son of Alfred Henry Miles, D.S.O., I.S.O. (late Collector-General of Jamaica), and Ada E. Miles. Served with the 31st Bn. Alberta Regt. and attained the rank of Lance Sergt. before gaining a commission in Royal Irish Fusiliers.
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Military Cross
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Richard Douglas Miles
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Photo of Richard Miles
In memory of the employees from the Canadian Bank Of Commerce (CIBC) who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Richard Douglas Miles
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Richard Douglas Miles
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Commemorated on:
Page 579 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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