Myles von Winckler

Lieutenant Myles William von Winckler was an officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1893, in Demerara, British Guiana (now Guyana), the son of Dr. William J, employed in the colony's Government Medical Service, and Aimable Louise von Winckler (née Pairaudeau), who was born in the colony. He studied in England, attending St. Paul's School and Wadham College, Oxford.The Times (41589), Col F, p. 8. "Fallen Officers". 21 September 1917 Von Winckler subsequently entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was gazetted into the Middlesex Regiment in June 1915.London Gazette (29193), p. 20, 15 June 1915. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
Von Winckler died on 1 August 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, when he was shot by a sniper shortly before his company, which he was commanding, was to be relieved from its positions.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Menin Gate Memorial.
==Notes==
==References==
*Von Winckler, Myles William, cwgc.org. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
==External links==
*Lieutenant Myles William Von Winckler (Photograph), findagrave.com. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
Category:1893 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:Guyanese military personnel
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Menin Gate Memorial
Category:Lieutenants