When Alexander Warden Miles was born on 27 January 1907, in Marble Bar, Western Australia, Australia, his father, George James Gallop Warden Miles, was 33 and his mother, Ellen Leydon, was 31. He married Sylvia May Doncon on 22 January 1932, in Beverley, Western Australia, Australia. He died on 20 October 1988, in Beverley, Western Australia, Australia, at the age of 81, and was buried in Beverley Anglican Cemetery, Beverley, Western Australia, Australia.
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Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.
August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.
Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .
English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).
Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .
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