Col Valentine GILES RE D.S.O. [478]

   Cause of his death was stroke.

  General Notes:

Valentine was educated at Liege Belgium, Feldkirch Austria, Aberdeen and Royal Marine Academy Woolwich. He became a Captain in the Royal Engineers in 1908.

Valentine earned his DSO for his role with the Royal Engineers in the mining of the battlefield at Messine, Belgium 1916.

E V Fenn reports in a letter to Margot Fenn in NZ 15 Mar 1945 that Valentine had died and that he had been living in Bexhill.

England Death Index Jan Qtr 1945
Giles Valentine aged 68 Battle 2b 73

Giles Valentine DSO of The Arundel Bexhill on Sea Sussex died 27 February 1945. Probate Llandudno 18 September to Philadelphia Constance Violet Flora MacDonald Giles widow.
Effects £1055 15s 11d
National Probate Calendar.

  Research Notes:

Images Courtesy of Giles Family Website

Guildhall Library: Records of Sun Fire Office [MS 11936/515]
Records of Sun Fire Office
Catalogue Ref. SUN
Creator(s):
Sun Fire Office, 1710-1891
Exchange House Fire Office, 1708-1710
Sun Insurance Office Ltd, 1891-1959
Sun Alliance Group, 1959-1996
Royal and Sun Alliance, 1996- at: www.history.ac.uk/gh/sun.htm <http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/sun.htm>
Policy register - ref. MS 11937/515 - date: 1861-1862
ref. MS 11936/515/1058951 - date: 10 May 1827
Insured: Mary, Valentine, Giles and Richard Stevens, 39 Bell Yard Temple Bar
Ref: http://www.archon.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/searches/locresult_details.asp?LR=76
Ref A2A.

Mark St Giles writes in 2024 on the matter of adding Saint to the Giles surname:
HAG insisted the name Saint be added to his grandchildrens' surnames, all except my grandfather Valentine, refused.
My father added it to the surname hence my name Mark St Giles. My son Edward uses it also.

  Other Records

1. Valentine Giles: His Confession to Dolly Cotes [486].
VALENTINE'S CONFESSION 1891
MY FAVOURITE VIRTUE: Honesty
MY IDEA OF HAPPINESS: Sleep
MY IDEA OF MISERY: Being hungry
MY FAVOURITE OCCUPATION: Eating Pickles
MY FAVOURITE COLOUR: White
MY FAVOURITE FLOWER: Lilacs
MY FAVOURITE POETS: Author of "Canace and Algarsife"
MY FAVOURITE PROSE AUTHORS: Wilkie Collins
MY FAVOURITE PAINTER: Watts
MY FAVOURITE FOOD: Walnuts
MY FAVOURITE NAMES: Valentine Ebenezer
MY PET AVERSION: Walking
MY FAVOURITE MOTTO: I know none

A FURTHER CONFESSION BY VALENTINE : c1891
MY FAVOURITE VIRTUE: Writing confessions in Greek
MY IDEA OF HAPPINESS: Writing confessions in German
MY IDEA OF MISERY: Writing confessions in English
MY FAVOURITE OCCUPATION: Writing confessions in Arabic
MY FAVOURITE COLOUR: Black white brown yellow green pink red blue purple violet orange
MY FAVOURITE FLOWER: Rose lily pink carnation pansy daisy buttercup geranium tulip hyacinth banana orange blosom
MY FAVOURITE POETS: Longfellow Keats Giles Crabbe Tennyson Shakespeare, and others to numerous to mention
MY FAVOURITE PROSE AUTHORS: DICKENS
MY FAVOURITE PAINTER: MYSELF
MY FAVOURITE FOOD: BATS (roasted)
MY FAVOURITE NAMES: VxxxxxxxE
MY PET AVERSION: LONDON
MY FAVOURITE MOTTO: Arabic (has made some squiggles?)

2. Valentine Giles: Pictures across time.
Valentine 1893, Valentine as a gentleman recruit into HM Artillery 1896 - he became a Capt in the Royal Engineers, Controls of the Fortress Gun, Valentine later in life.

Valentine married Margaret Mayhew MOLLISON [412] [MRIN: 848], daughter of William MOLLISON [16572] and Ellen MAYHEW [34178], on 24 Nov 1902 in Rangoon Burma. (Margaret Mayhew MOLLISON [412] was born on 16 Jul 1880 in Cambridge CAM. and died on 11 Nov 1923 in Spike Island Cork IRL.)

Valentine next married Philadelphia Constance Violet Flora MacDonald FRASER [9234] [MRIN: 3186], daughter of Maj. Francis FRASER of Tornaveen [11325] and Alexia Beatrice Mary Dedombal Flora MACDONALD [11695], in May 1924 in LND. (Philadelphia Constance Violet Flora MacDonald FRASER [9234] was born on 5 May 1886 in LND, baptised on 30 Jun 1886 in St Thomas Portman Sq MDX and died on 9 Jan 1956 in Hinton Charteerhouse SOM.)