Sidney Miles today (smiles)
- Contributed by
- smiles_snr
- People in story:
- Charles Gordon Miles ,Sidney Charles Miles
- Location of story:
- Eastbourne Sussex
- Background to story:
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:
- A4541681
- Contributed on:
- 25 July 2005
My father was a warrant officer in the Royal Air Force, station in the Grand Hotel on Eastbourne sea front.
Previous to joining the RAF Dad was in the 9th Royal Lancers when they still rode hores and carried Lances.He spent 18 years in the Army and 26 years in the RAF a total of 35 years military service.
The story. I was aged about 3(1942) and living in a rented house in Melbourne Rd on this particular day dad and I had been playing in the garden, when Dad said that he was intending to go back to his duties at the Grand Hotel, however I did not want him to leave.So apparentally I threw a tantrum which ultimately made him 15 minutes late for his cycle ride along the seafront where each day he joined a school teacher and they rode together.As I had delayed this schedule the teacher whos name I do not know, had proceeded on her own, and during her ride a German plane flew along the length of the sea front and straffed the people and vehicles thereon and the school teacher was I am told, killed.
So from that day onward my father said that I saved his life with my tantrum.
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