Private Miles Christian Templar SARGENT (6013470)
2nd Battalion Essex Regiment

Date of birth: 22nd September 1920
Date of death: 16th May 1940

Killed in action aged 19
Commemorated on the Dunkirk Memorial Column 94
He was born at Westgate on Sea on the 22nd of September 1920, the son of Major Laurens Christopher Sargent OKS, East Kent Regiment (Buffs), army tutor, later ordained, and Ethel Muriel (nee Dancy) of Up Pantiles, Ryders Avenue, Westgate, later of The Vicarage, St Peter in Thanet, Kent, and Ingrave Rectory near Brentwood, Essex.

He was educated at Flete House, Westgate, and at the King's School Canterbury from September 1934 to March 1938, where he was in School House.

On leaving school he went abroad to study languages.

When war broke out he enlisted in the Essex Regiment and landed in France on the 4th of May 1940 being killed a few days later.

His brother, Flying Officer John Michael Hewlett Sargent OKS No.1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit Royal Air Force, was killed in action on the 9th of December 1941.
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