Soldier
During World War I, Myles served in the British Army with both the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the Royal Engineers. He won the Military Cross for bravery and reached the rank of Major.
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Famous quotes containing the word soldier:
“For the soldier of time, it breathes a summer sleep,
In which his wound is good because life was.
No part of him was ever part of death.
A woman smoothes her forehead with her hand
And the soldier of time lies calm beneath that stroke.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Thou art a soldier only, speak no more.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.”
—Edwin, Sir Arnold (1832–1904)