Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 214

W ORLD W AR II

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name MILES BENJAMIN MARGARY (Capt)

Lef SES 1938

Roll Number 2986 Died 25:01:1945

Set / House F

Arrive SES 1935

Where PAKISTAN Serving with ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS

Age 26

Buried Maynamati War Cemetery, Camilla, Bangladesh Remembered

The War Memorial Camilla, Bangladesh, The War Memorial, Upper Hale, Farnham, Surrey, The Selwyn College Cambridge 1939-45 Calendar and The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial Born Kent 1919. ‘He was a quiet boy who nevertheless took his share of activities of the School and House’ (Chronicle). He was in the 3rd School Rowing VIII, a Lance Corporal in the OTC, and the Lower Science VIth Form. He went up to Selwyn College, Cambridge hoping to become a mechanical engineer, but the outbreak of war intervened. He enlisted in The Royal Army Service Corps (TA) in 1939 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant the same year. By 1942 he had risen to the rank of Captain, and posted to India. He died early in 1945 of diabetes in India, while in service, and was buried in Bangladesh.