Name
Ronald Arthur Sykes
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Fusiliers *1
7th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
VI. D. 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 28 May 1896 and baptised on 24 Jul 1896 in Clewer, Windsor son of James Dixon and Hope Gertrude Sykes.
Educated at Haileybury College 1909-11. He later lived at 109 Ebury Street, London.
Wartime Service
Died of wounds probably in the 30th Casualty Clearing Station in Aubigny-en-Artois..
Additional Information
Brother of Lieutenant Jack Aubrey Sykes who was killed in action on 3 Oct 1918 and of Lieutenant Harold Keith Sykes who was killed in a flying accident on 29 Jun 1917 and all are commemorated on these memorials.
*1 Probably more correctly (City of London) Bn. London Regiment.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
