King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975

Service biography
Joined RN 1905; Assistant Navigator, HMS NEPTUNE, flagship of Home Fleet 1912; Navigator, HMS SURPRISE, China Station 1912-1914; (HMS SURPRISE renamed HMS ALACRITY 1913); World War I 1914-1918; Navigator, armed merchant cruiser HMS EMPRESS OF RUSSIA, Indian Ocean 1914-1915; Navigator, flotilla leader HMS BOTHA, Grand Fleet 1915-1916; Navigator, HMS FEARLESS, submarine flotilla leader, Grand Fleet 1916; Staff Officer, HMS COVENTRY under R Adm commanding Atlantic Fleet destroyer flotillas 1920-1922; Sqn navigating officer, HMS COVENTRY, Atlantic and Mediterranean flotillas 1922-1924; Cdr and Staff Officer Operations in 1 and 3 Battle Sqns 1925-1927; Staff Officer Operations and Sqn navigator, HMS HOOD, battle cruiser Sqn 1927-1929; Plans Div, Admiralty 1930; commanding HMS PANGBOURNE and 1 minesweeping flotilla 1931-1932; Deputy Director, Staff College 1933-1935; commanding HMS CODRINGTON, and 3 destroyer flotilla, Mediterranean 1935-1937; Assistant Director, then Director, Tactical School, Portsmouth 1937-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Flag Capt to Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet, HMS NELSON 1939-1941; Head of Military Mission in Moscow, USSR, accompanying Sir Stafford Cripps 1941-1943; Deputy Naval Cdr, South East Asia Command, under AF Francis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, East Indies Station 1943-1944; Flag Officer commanding Western Mediterranean 1944-1945; Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Navy 1946-1947; retired 1948

Papers
LIDDLE COLLECTION, LEEDS UNIVERSITY: three recorded interviews relating to his service in the Far East 1912-1914; to his service in World War I 1914-1918; and to the armistice and his service in Murmansk, Russia 1918; SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: The papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma include correspondence with Miles relating to South East Asia Command 1943-1944 (ref: MB1/C174)

Publications

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PLACES USSR 1918
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