Miles and beryl smeeton biography books
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Miles and Beryl Smeeton
Miles Smeeton (1906–1988) and Beryl Smeeton (1905–1979) were an outstanding couple of travellers, pioneers, explorers, mountaineers, cruising sailors, recipients of numerous sailing awards, farmers, prolific authors, wildlife conservationists and founders of the Cochrane Ecological Institute, a Canadian non-profit charity responsible for successfully reintroducing the swift fox to Canada.
Biography
[edit]Brigadier Miles Richard Smeeton, DSO, MBE, MC was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1906, and was educated at Wellington and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Green Howards in 1925 but transferred to the Indian Army in 1936, joining Hodson's Horse. During the Second World War he served with the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade in the Western Desert and commanded Probyn's Horse in action against the Japanese in Burma in 1945. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry at Bir Hacheim on 27 May 1942 and the Distinguished Service Order for successful leadership during skirmishes at Shande and Ywadan on 3 and 5 March 1945, respectively. In early 1947 he retired from the Indian Army, having commanded the 63rd Brigade from May 1945 onwards.
Beryl, born in 1905, was raised in a family of British soldiers and travelled w
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Born in Hovingham, Yorkshire on March 5, 1906, Miles Smeeton attended Wellington College, joined the British army and transferred to the Indian Cavalry. In 1930 he married solo explorer Beryl Boxer, born in Tolpuddle, England on September 21, 1905. They attempted to climb Tirich Mir in the Himalayas, at which time she reached the greatest height ever climbed by a woman (7,000 metres). After World War II they tried operating a small farm on Saltspring Island, purchasing land there sight unseen near Musgrave Landing and farming from 1946 to 1950, then from 1952 to 1955. Unable to transfer some of their money from England, they visited Britain where they found a sailboat yacht called Tzu Hang. They taught themselves how to sail on their way to Spain, proceeding to the Canary Islands, through the Panama Canal and back to Vancouver Island. For 20 years they sailed around the world and wrote about their adventures, recalling their first maritime adventures in The Sea Was Our Village (Gray's Publishing, 1973). Previous titles by Miles Smeeton were Once is Enough, Because the Horn is There, The Misty Isles, Sunrise to Windward, A Taste of the Hills and A Change of Jungle. Smeeton's oft-reprinted description of trying to round Cape Hope in their small boat,
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High Endeavours: Rendering Extraordinary Have a go and Adventures of Miles and Beryl Smeeton - Hardcover
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