Notes
His biography on the college website (see references) states: ‘Giles was born to the Reverend William Bernard Atherton and his wife Eva. Whitworth. His father was a naval chaplain for many years and his mother, the daughter of a farmer in Buckinghamshire, was a teacher in a school for clergy daughters, prior to her marriage. He was their third and youngest son born at Coberley near Cheltenham. His father was the vicar at St. Giles’s church and it may be assumed that was the reason that he was named Giles. The Reverend Atherton died in 1937 at Coberley. Giles’s eldest brother, Charles Roger, born in 1905, was a Lieutenant in the RASC when he was killed in manoeuvres in 1928. His brother, Brian Bernard, a Cambridge graduate, 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Malacca Volunteer Corps, born in 1910, died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Thailand in 1943.
Giles was educated at Marlborough and matriculated in 1940. He was up at Christ Church for a year and gained a 3rd in Classical Mods. He was a Lieutenant in the 10th Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment when he was killed at Pinwe on November 24th 1944. He is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma. Plot 7. H. 8. All the Atherton sons are commemorated in the churchyard of St Giles, Coberley.