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Personal data

• Name MILES
• Initials GH
• First name GEORGE HENRY
• Family Son of G. H. and B. Miles, of 16, Lebanon Park, Twickenham.

Military service

• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Attached or transferred from 1st - Bn. - Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
• Other data related to military career also served in the Royal West Kent Regiment

Death

• Wounded Artillery observation patrol, left 5.10 p.m.; direct hit by artillery British shell, Verbrandemolen, crashed; Miles was the pilot, 2Lt. NC Whittall the observer, also KIA and buried in Lijssenthoek
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 12 September 1917
• Died at the age of 20
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIX - B - 1

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