King's College London Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975
Name MILES, Sir Herbert Scott Gould (1850-1926), Lieutenant General
Service biography Joined Army 1869;
barrister, Inner Temple 1880;
Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, War Office 1889-1893;
Assistant Adjutant General, Aldershot 1893-1898;
Commandant, Staff College 1898-1899;
Deputy Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Natal Field Force, South African War 1899-1900;
Commandant, Staff College 1900-1903;
commanding troops in Cape Colony District 1903-1904;
Director of Recruiting and and Organisation, Headquarters 1904-1908;
Quartermaster General and third military member of the Army Council 1908-1912;
Col, Royal Munster Fusiliers 1912-1926;
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar 1913-1918;
retired 1919
Papers CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY:
Papers including correspondence as Commander-in-Chief,
Gibraltar 1912-1918, chiefly congratulations on appointment and honours;
brief personal correspondence with FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig,
and with FM Edmund (Henry Hyman) Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
of Megiddo and Felixstowe 1923-1924
Publications
Index terms SUBJECTS PLACES Southern Europe 1912-1918
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