In Memory Of

MILES, JAMES HENRY

Service Details
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
8303
Rank:
Private
Unit:
4th Regt.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1917-04-12
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 4th SAI lost 6 officers and 200 men.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
B. 28.
Cemetery:
FAMPOUX BRITISH CEMETERY
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Edgar William Miles, of Boksburg. Before the war, he worked at the ERP mine in Boksburg.