Herbert Miles


Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles, was a senior British Army officer. He was Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1908 to 1912, and Governor of Gibraltar from 1913 until 1918 during the First World War.

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 in 1880.
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. In 1898 he was appointed Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley.
He served in the Second Boer War, from early February 1900 as Deputy Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff for the Natal Field Force. 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. He was appointed Director of Recruiting and Organisation at Army Headquarters in 1904 and Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1908.
He was Governor of Gibraltar from 1913; he retired in 1919.

Legacy

in Gibraltar is named in his honour as is Sir Herbert Miles Promenade. There is a memorial to him in St Peter's Church in Yoxford, Suffolk.
, Suffolk