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Miles and Beryl Smeeton
Miles Smeeton and Beryl Smeeton were a pioneering couple of mountaineers, cruising sailors, recipients of numerous sailing awards, prolific authors, and founders of the Cochrane Ecological Institute, a Canadian non-profit responsible for successfully reintroducing the swift fox to North America.
==Biography==
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 May 27, 1942 and the Distinguished Service Order for successful leadership during skirmishes at Shande and Ywadan on March 3 and 5, 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 widely throughout the world, some of which is described in her 1930’s books ''The Stars My Blanket'' and ''Winter Shoes in Springtime'', written under the name Beryl Miles. Charles R. Boxer, the distinguished historian and soldier, was one of her brothers.
In 1938 Miles and Beryl married. In 1939, the two attempted to climb 25,263-foot Tirich Mir, in the Himalaya, with Tenzing Norgay. Although they failed, Beryl achieved renown as one of the first women to climb so high. After the war, the couple settled on a farm on Saltspring Island, BC, with their daughter, Clio. Beryl had bought the farm during the war; anticipation of a happy life there when peace came helped sustain both Miles and Beryl during the years of separation while Miles served in North Africa and later the Far East, where he commanded a formation and received the local occupying Japanese surrender. ('High Endeavours' Miles Clarke)
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