Frank Lucas Netlam Giles
Colonel Frank Lucas Netlam Giles (1879-1930), D.S.O., O.B.E. was a British soldier- serving with the Royal Engineers- and military attaché.
Giles was only son of Frank Giles, ICS (North West Province and Oudh), Secretary and Member of the provisional legislative council and Superintendent of Dehra Dun[1] a descendant of the canal and railway engineer Francis Giles. [citation needed] Relatives included Alfred Giles, MP for Southampton, and Sir Charles Tyrrell Giles, K.C.[citation needed]
He was educated at Marlborough and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.[2]
Giles served in Boer/South African War, 1902 (Queen's Medal, three clasps); was part of European War, 1914–17, the West African Frontier Force (WAFF) / Kamerun campaign in Kamerun / Cameroons Expeditionary Force 1914-1916 (despatches), and was made Lieutenant-Colonel while serving in France in 1916-18 (despatches).[3]
After the Great War Giles served as British Commissioner on the (Serbo) Yugoslav-Bulgarian International Frontier Commission between 1920 and 1922/23 and the (Serbo) Yugoslav-Albanian International Frontier Commission (Albanian Frontier Commission) between 1922 and 1925. He was promoted to Colonel (temporarily) on 30 May 1925. Military attaché to Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia (SCS) in Belgrade and Athens, 1925-until summer 1929. He was a member of the United Service Club; and lived (1928) at Thurlston House, Fleet, Hants, and with the British Legation, in Belgrade and Athens.[4][5][6]
Family
[edit]In 1916, he married Elgiva Mary (1890-1970) younger daughter of Captain Charles Ackland-Allen (1854-1934), JP, of The Cross, St Hilary, Vale of Glamorgan, near Cowbridge.[7][8]
Their children were Frank Thomas Robertson Giles (31 July 1919 – 30 October 2019) and Elizabeth Elgiva Giles (1917-2005).[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ The India List and India Office List, London, 1905
- ^ Who Was Who, A Companion to Who's Who, A. & C. Black, 1960, p. 512
- ^ Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1928.
- ^ Who Was Who, A Companion to Who's Who, A. & C. Black, 1960, p. 512
- ^ Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1928.
- ^ University College London archives: Reference Number GIL/1-12. 1921-1928
- ^ Who Was Who, A Companion to Who's Who, A. & C. Black, 1960, p. 512
- ^ The Longcrofts: 500 Years of a British Family by James Phillips-Evans (2012).
- 1879 births
- 1930 deaths
- British Army personnel of World War I
- People educated at Marlborough College
- Royal Engineers officers
- British military attachés
- Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
- Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich