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VC696 Edgar Kinghorn Myles
BORN 29 July 1894
DIED 31 January 1977 AGE 82
VC Won 9 April 1916 AGE 21
Place VC Won Sanna-I-Yat, Mesopotamia, now Iraq
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name Edgar Kinghorn Myles No. 9311
VC Issue No. 696 Awards VC DSO
Regiment Welch Regiment, 8th Battalion attached to 9th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
Later Royal Regiment of Wales
Now 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales - disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth ‘Brooklyn’ (147) Milton Avenue, East Ham, Essex, England
Place Of Death Huntley British Legion Home, Bishopteignton, Devon, England
Buried/Location Ashes Torquay Crematorium, Torquay, Devon, England
Cremated Torquay Crematorium, Torquay, Devon, England
Date Buried/Cremated 4 February 1977
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Lawns, Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 26 September 1916
VC Presented 4 September 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on framed memorial at Regimental Chapel, Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
By The Way…
General Maud told Myles that it had been his intention to recommend a second VC but not wishing to set a precedent recommended a DSO instead.
In 1936 he took part in an Elstree Studios film about the Irish rebellion “Ourselves Alone”
VC Held By
Worcestershire Regiment Museum, Worcester City Museum, Foregate Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, England
