Army Number : 15824

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Liverpool and lived at 11, Royston Terrace, Meadows, Nottingham. Husband of May Pierce of Royston Terrace, Meadows, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France 16th February 1915 and was killed in action, 7th August 1916, during the attack on the German positions at Delville Wood, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Second Lieutenant William Miles Smalley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Mapperley War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Central Methodist Mission (Albert Hall) War Memorial.
Nottingham University OTC War Memorial, Nottingham.
High Pavement Grammar School Roll of Honour, (Nottinghamshire Archives), Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.