Herbert Miles

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Sir Herbert Miles
Lt. Gen. Sir Herbert Miles
Born	1850
Died	1926
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1869-1919
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	Staff College, Camberley British Troops in the Cape Colony
Battles/wars	Second Boer War First World War
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles GCB GCMG GBE CVO (31 July 1850 – 1926) was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

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 as Deputy Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff for the Natal Field Force.^[2] 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.^[2]

He was Governor of Gibraltar from 1913; he retired in 1919.^[2]

Legacy

Sir Herbert Miles Road in Gibraltar is named in his honour^[3] as is Sir Herbert Miles Promenade.^[4]

References

Obituary of Lieut.-General Sir Herbert Miles, The Times, 21 May 1926 (pg. 11; Issue 44277; col E)

↑ The London Gazette: no. 23464. p. 525. 2 February 1869. Retrieved 25 December 2009.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
↑ "CENSUS ACT (2012 CENSUS) REGULATIONS 2012". Gibraltar Government. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
↑ Felipes, Tito Benady ; with illustrations by George (1996). The streets of Gibraltar : a short history. Grendon: Gibraltar Books. p. 40. ISBN 0948466375.

Military offices
Preceded by Henry Hildyard	Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley 1898–1903	Succeeded by Sir Henry Rawlinson
Preceded by Sir William Nicholson	Quartermaster-General to the Forces 1908–1912	Succeeded by Sir John Cowans
Government offices
Preceded by Sir Archibald Hunter	Governor of Gibraltar 1913–1918	Succeeded by Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien

v t e Governors of Gibraltar

	Spanish period (1462-1704) De Salinas Habsburg occupation (1704) Hesse-Darmstadt Nugent Shrimpton Elliott Stanwix Treaty of Utrecht (1713) Portmore Kane Clayton Sabine Hargrave Bland Fowke Tyrawley Home Cornwallis Boyd Eliott Boyd Rainsford O'Hara Kent and Strathearn Fox Dalrymple Cradock Campbell Don Chatham Don Crown colony (1830) Houston Woodford Wilson Gardiner Fergusson Codrington Airey Williams Napier of Magdala Adye Hardinge Smyth Nicholson Biddulph White Forestier-Walker Hunter Miles Smith-Dorrien Monro Godley Harington Ironside Liddell Gort Mason-Macfarlane Eastwood Anderson MacMillan Redman Keightley Ward Lathbury Begg Grandy Jackson British dependent territory (1981) Williams Terry Reffell Chapple White Luce Durie British Overseas Territory (2002) Richards Fulton Johns Dutton

Persondata
Name	Miles, Herbert
Alternative names
Short description	British Army general
Date of birth	31 July 1850
Place of birth
Date of death	1926
Place of death

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