Harold Edwin Miles

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Harold Edwin Miles was born in Enmore Green, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 8 Apr 1885 and baptised at St. John's Church, Enmore Green, on 24 May 1885 the son of Edwin Miles, a Market Gardener, and Lucy Jane Miles (nee Meade).  He lived all his early life at Nettlebed Nursery, Enmore Green, receiving some of his education at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset, which establishment he left in 1900.   By 1913 he was living in Tisbury, Wiltshire, working as a Returning Officer and it is there, at the Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, he married Mary Irene Jukes on 12 July 1913.  According to the Shaftesbury Grammar School records he was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment and held the rank at the time of Corporal.  No other military information has been found.  The 1921 Census shows he was living in the High Street, Tisbury, described as Relieving Officer, Vaccinations Officer and Collector for the whole Tisbury District and employed by the Tisbury Board of Guardians (Local Authority). By the time of the 1939 Register he was living at 285 Castle Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire, employed as a Registrar of Births, Marriages and Death for the Amesbury, Wiltshire, area.  His death occurred shortly after on 12 Apr 1941 and was registered in Salisbury and he was later buried at the Town Cemetery, Shaftesbury.   His brothers, Charles Ernest Miles and Arthur Douglas Miles, also served in the conflict.