B118080 Rifleman Allan Robert Lawson Mylles was born in Trenton, Ontario, the son of David Campbell Mylles and Mildred Marguerite Cox. His Presbyterian family included two younger brothers and a sister. He completed grade eight and then left school to help support his family.

Mylles enjoyed hunting, baseball, hockey and swimming. He spent one year as an operator’s helper in a silver plating plant, a year and a half as a machine operator in a shoe factory, and on enlistment, as a sailor and watchman, on Great Lakes freighters.

On 15 October 1943, Mylles enlisted in Toronto with the active army and trained in Brantford and Camp Borden. He arrived in the United Kingdom and was posted to 3 Canadian Reinforcement Unit on 9 May 1944 and a month later to The Queen’s Own Rifles reinforcement unit. On 13 June, he arrived in France and was posted to the QOR two weeks later.

Mylles was reported missing but later confirmed wounded on 18 July. After returning to the QOR he was admitted to Canadian General Hospital for 71 days with illness. After discharge, he was posted to various reinforcement units before returning to the QOR on 7 April 1945.

Rifleman Mylles was wounded in action on 9 April and died of these wounds on 11 April 1945, aged 20. He is buried in Holten Canadian War Cemetery, grave reference III. B. 9.

His family had the following inscribed on his grave marker:

YOU’RE LIKE A HAUNTING ECHO
OF SWEET MUSIC, MY DEAR,
FAR AWAY BUT EVER NEAR