Name
Robert James Francis Meyricke
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/02/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
Royal Fusiliers *1
11th (County of London) Bn. commanding Northamptonshire Regiment 6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AVELUY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
M. 30.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born 3 Jan 1879 in 7 Porchester Square, London and baptised on 17 Feb 1879 in Paddington son of Robert Henry and Katharine Carswell Meyricke later of 13 Cleveland Gardens, Hyde Park, London.
Educated at Haileybury College 1892-95.
Wartime Service
Mentioned in despatches (22 May 1917).
Killed in action at the Battle of Boom Ravine on the Somme while rallying his men.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
