Name
Richard Mead Haythornthwaite
04/01/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/05/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Addenda Panel 57, 58 and 59.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Separate Plaque, All Saints Church Kings Langley.
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath.
Cambridge University Sidney Sussex Collage WW1 Memorial.
Northwood WW1 Memorial.
Pre War
Rycharde Mead Haythornthwaite was born on 4
January 1894, in Agra, Bengal, India, son of Rev. John Parker
Haythornthwaite (Clerk in Holy Orders) and Dr Iszet Haythornthwaite (nee Mead)
a Medical Doctor, the eldest of five children, Hilda May (B1895), Grace Parker
(B1897), Reginald Arthur (B1898) and Constance Lucy (B1903-D1907).
Rycharde was Baptised on 30 January 1894, at St
Paul’s Church, Agra, Bengal, India.
1901 Census records Rycharde aged 7, as a boarder
at the Church Missionaries Society Children’s Home, Limpsfield, Surrey. A
boarding school for children of Missionaries who were serving overseas.
1911 Census records Rycharde as a student aged 17,
at Haileybury Collage, Great Amwell, Hertford, Herts.
He attended Haileybury Collage from 1906-13, was
Head of the School 1912-13 and served in the School’s O.T.C. as
Colour-Sergeant.
Attended Sidney Sussex Collage, Cambridge from
October 1913 to July 1914, then joined the army on the outbreak of war.
Wartime Service
He was Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant to The
Buffs (East Kent Regiment) on 15 August 1914, trained at Dover from September
1914 to May 1915, arriving in France on 6th May 1915. Rycharde was
Killed in Action at the Second Battle of Ypres, on 24th May 1915,
while tending to wounded men in an outpost trench. He was initially buried near
this spot; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate)
Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £47-2s-7d, Pay Owing which went to his father the Rev John Parker Haythornthwaite.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
