Name
Auriol Francis Hay Round
11/11/1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/09/1914
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WITHAM (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
North boundary of cemetery
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Oxhey, Herts, War memorial. All Saints Church, Witham, Essex. Witham, Essex War Memorial. Bond of Sacrifice - Officers died in the Great War.
Pre War
Auriol Francis Hay
Round, born in Chelsea, London on 11 November 1891, was the son of Francis
Richard Round, C.M.G. and his wife Frances Emily Round. His father, a
high-ranking civil servant in the Colonial Office, received the CMG, the Order
of St Michael and St George, awarded to men and women who rendered
extraordinary or important non-military service in a foreign country.
Auriol was baptised in
December 1891, in the Parish of St Peters, Cranley Gardens, Kensington and
Chelsea with his twin brother Arthur John.
He and his wife had
seven children and in 1901 the family home was Sutton Court, Sutton, Surrey,
where he employed a governess and four servants.
By 1911, he had
retired, was a JP for Essex and the family had moved to ‘Avenue House’, Newland
Street, Witham, Essex.
Auriol attended
Felsted School from May 1905 (age 13) to December 1909 (age 18).
Wartime Service
Date of death 5
September 1914 (age 22) at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in London,
died of wounds received at Le Cateau 5 September 1914. Funeral, Witham, was
represented by Captain Hornsby-Wright, the headmaster and Mr F.W. Stocks.
How many Old Boys of
Felsted in their letters to the School have lamented the death of 'Dicky'
Round! The son of F G Round Esq, CMG, of Witham, and nephew of the Chairman of
our Governors, he came in May 1905. In December 1909 he passed into Sandhurst.
He was a Prefect, and in the Cricket and Hockey XI's and in the Running VIII.
At Hockey he played for Sandhurst and for the Army, and many are the times he
came as an Old Boy to break up the school attack.
He was wounded in the
knee at Le Cateau on August 26th, 1914, was brought to London and was doing
well when tetanus set in. We like the story that came from a private in
hospital that his life was saved by Lieutenant Round, who carried him in. We do
not know if it is true, but it sounds like 'Dicky'.
Source: Felsted School
A later report of the
circumstances of his death:
‘After Lieutenant
Auriol Round was wounded in the hip at Le Cateau, he saw a wounded sergeant
near, went courageously after him and carried him about three-quarters of a
mile to a place of safety. In doing that, the bullet that had entered his hip
moved down to his knee, and he succumbed after arrival in England. He never
told anything about his own bravery. The sergeant, who also came home, told of
it, otherwise it would never have been heard of.’
The Essex County Chronicle, Friday, 18 September 1916
Researched by Christine Cocks
His brothers: Harold Cecil Round died on 24th August 1917:
and James Murray Round died on 13th November 1916.
Additional Information
Son of Francis R. Round, C.M.G., and F. Emily Round, of Avenue House, Witham. His brothers Harold Cecil Round and James Murray Round also fell. Also see ‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
