Name
James Murray Round (MC)
21/02/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Essex Regiment
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2
I. K. 37.
France
Headstone Inscription
HE THAT OVERCOMETH I WILL BE HIS GOD AND HE SHALL BE MY SON
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Memorial, Hertford Heath. Haileybury College Chapel Roll of Honour, Hertford Heath. St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey, Herts. Oxhey, Herts, War Memorial. All Saints Church, Witham, Essex. Colchester War Memorial.
Pre War
James Murray
Round, born in Chelsea, London on 21 February 1894, was the son of the Francis
Richard Round CMG, and his wife Frances Emily Round (nee Tufnell). 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.
James was
baptised on 20th April 1894 at St Peters Church, Cranley Gardens,
Chelsea, London.
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. From 1907 until 1911, James was a pupil at Haileybury
College, Hertford.
Wartime Service
He joined
the Essex Regiment and served as a Captain. Landing in France on 14th September 1914. He was awarded the Military Cross
for gallantry. He died on 13th November 1916, aged 22. He was buried at the Serre
Road Cemetery No. 2 on the Somme, France.
He and his brothers, Auriol Francis
Hay Round and Harold Cecil Round, are all commemorated on the memorial at St
Matthew’s Church, Oxhey. The reason for this is that Emma Margaret Round, who
married John Wilfred Lewis, by 1915 the vicar of St Matthew’s Church, Oxhey,
was their cousin. Her sister, Lucy Frances Round, married Major Charles Ernest
Higginbotham, who is also commemorated at St Matthew’s.
James is also commemorated on the
memorials at Haileybury College Memorial, Hertford Heath, Haileybury College
Chapel Roll of Honour, Hertford Heath, and Colchester War Memorial
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £139-4s-11d, which went to his Father Francis. Brother of Lieutenant Auriol Francis Hay Round who died of wounds on 5 Sep 1914 and of Captain Harold Cecil Round DSO MC who was killed in action on 24 Aug 1917 in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk
