One of my uncles served in WWI in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as an architect. In civilian life he was not an architect. He was a skilled carpenter.
Military Architecture usually refers to designing and building fortifications and associated buildings..
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Arthur George PILE was
Arthur George PILE was Authorized Architect from 1923-36
He had private practice from 1930 -36
In 1919 he was a soldier and
In 1919 he was a soldier and an artificer engineer and travelled to Sierra Leone From Liverpool
17 August 1905 he travelled from Liverpool to Hong Kong with Mrs Pile and Miss Pile
Occupation
Family tradition said he was a naval architect in the HK yards (I'm not familiar with the term Authorized Architect).
Arthr George Pile
One of my uncles served in WWI in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as an architect. In civilian life he was not an architect. He was a skilled carpenter.
Military Architecture usually refers to designing and building fortifications and associated buildings..
Arthur George Pile
Born 24 May 1878 22 Tibberton Square Islington London Baptised 6 June 1880 St. Bartholemews Islington
1901 Census living at Quadrant Road Islington with parents aged 22 working as an architect's assistant
1903 Working in Royal Naval Dockyard Belfast as a civil engineer. Met future wife
23 August 1903 Married at Tinity Church Rathmines Dublin
1909 living at 42 Morrison Road Wanchai Hong Kong and working for Royal Navy at HMS Tamar shore station
Father to seven ( Dorothy, Thomas, Violet, Christopher,George) and twins born 1911 in Hong Kong who died soon after birth
Violet N Pile
Violet N Pile daughter of Arthur George Pile and Florence E E Bond born 27 March 1907 Hong Kong
married Arthur Cecil Tinson 15 August 1925 Hong Kong
left Hong Kong 1940 on Katana Maru and went to Australia She returned to Hong Kong 1946
She died 28 February 1991 Worthing Sussex
Filling the gaps
Thank you so much, this has filled some gaps in the tree.