Name
Harold Robert Pybus
6 May 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Durham Light Infantry
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE (ST. ANDREW'S AND JESMOND) CEMETERY
H. C. 34.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None recorded
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham. Solicitors And Articled Clerks - WW1 Memorial, Holborn Greater London, Newcastle Upon Tyne Incorporated Law Society - WW1 Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear
Pre War
Harold Robert Pybus, born 1892, was the second son of Robert Pybus, Solicitor, and Agnes Josephine He was educated at Charterhouse (1904 -07) and Aldenham school.
He was a solicitor's clerk, articled to his father, in 1912.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war he gained a commission as 2nd lieutenant and in Feb 15 was promoted to Lieutenant in 4th Battalion Durham Light Infantry and went to France 17 Aug 1915.
He had been wounded and was on home leave when he died on 24th July 1916. Riding a motorcycle with a pillion passenger and also in foggy weather near Seaham Harbour, Northumberland, they were in collision with a Pony and Trap. Harold died from his injuries but his passenger survived.
Biography
Additional Information
His older brother, Hugh Pybus served with RFA in France from 1915 rising to Rank of Major at the end of the conflict and further served on North West Frontier in India in 1919. His younger brother, Gilbert Douglas Pybus was commissioned In Indian Army rising to Rank of Lt. Colonel.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Tony James
