{"id":688,"date":"2015-09-26T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/?p=688"},"modified":"2015-09-29T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T10:23:42","slug":"cyril-vernor-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Cyril Vernor Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LT_CVMiles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-691 alignleft\" alt=\"LT_CVMiles\" src=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LT_CVMiles.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LT_CVMiles.jpg 280w, http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LT_CVMiles-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Just over a month after his younger brother Alfred was killed in action, Cyril Miles was sent to fight in the Battle of Loos.<\/p>\n<p>At school, Cyril was a keen sportsman, participating particularly in Cricket and Football \u2014 receiving a Pink in footer in Lent 1911. But he also earned himself a reputation for playing pranks.<\/p>\n<p>In his third winter at the school, Miles and a group of friends were discovered \u201cvery busy emptying pails of water in yard to make a slide for tomorrow if it freezes\u201d, and got into trouble for being on the roof \u201cand snowballing people in College Street, to their amusement and their victims&#8217; disgust as they\u00d4\u00c7\u00aa were quite invisible so they say\u201d. One evening in January 1909, Miles produced a dead mouse that had just been caught in Hall, which his friend Hobson \u2014 an aspiring doctor \u2014 skinned.<\/p>\n<p>When he left the school in 1911, he went on to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he continued to be a core member of the sporting scene. In Feburary 1914, he was mentioned in <i>The Elizabethan<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Mr. C.V. Miles is a tower of strength to the all-victorious Pembroke Soccer team, which we believe to be so far unbeaten. He owns a small motor of a somewhat obstreperous disposition, which has on at least one occasion dragged him into the jaws of that legal code which he is said to be studying.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In August 1914, Cyril joined the South Wales Borderers as 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Lieutenant, and was attached to the Welsh Regiment in February 1915. He was sent out to the western front, where he was promoted to Captain on 29<sup>th<\/sup> July 1915. His little brother Alfred, who had been there since the previous October, was killed in Vermelles in August 1915.<\/p>\n<p>Only a month later, on 26<sup>th<\/sup> September, Cyril was killed in action at Hulloch near Loos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month after his younger brother Alfred was killed in action, Cyril Miles was sent to fight in the Battle of Loos. At school, Cyril was a keen sportsman, participating particularly in Cricket and Football \u2014 receiving a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/?p=688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[305,318,91,71,60,344,346,343,345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}