Name
Raymond Gilbert Hooker Yeatyherd
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 1 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hertingfordbury memorials*1
Pre War
B.A., Ch.Ch., Oxford. Son of Lt. Col. Yeatherd, The King's Own Royal Regt., who fell at the Relief of Ladysmith, and of Mabel E. Yeatherd, of 31, Montpelier Square, Knightsbridge, London.
Wartime Service
Killed in action on the Somme.
Additional Information
*1 Raymond and his brother Montague are also commemorated on the family headstone in Hertingfordbury (St. Mary) Churchyard. Their inscription reads:
IN BELOVED MEMORY OF RAYMOND HOOKAH YEATHERD. LIEUTENANT, QUEENS BAYS
KILLED IN ACTION ON SOMME SEPTEMBER 15TH 1916 AGED 25
AND OF
MONTAGUE LOCKE YEATHERD CAPTAIN XII ROYAL LANCERS LATE VII QUEENS OWN HUSSARS
KILLED IN ACTION AT ARRAS APRIL 11. 1917. AGED 33
BURIED ON THE BATTLEFIELD
ONLY SONS OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL YEATHERD
