Peile was educated at
Cheltenham College and trained at the
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned into the
Royal Garrison Artillery as a
second lieutenant on 17 February 1888, promoted to
lieutenant on 17 February 1891, and to
captain on 18 April 1898. During his military career he served in India, Bermuda and South Africa, before joining the
School of Gunnery, Shoeburyness, where he became an instructor in February 1903. He later served in France during the
First World War. Following retirement from the army with the rank of
lieutenant colonel in 1920, Peile was an honorary curator at the Department of Mollusca at the
Natural History Museum in London, and published over fifty malacological
papers. He was also President of the
Malacological Society of London 1925–1927, and of the
Conchological Society 1935–1937. ==References==