Name
Gilbert Davidson Pitt Eykyn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/04/1915
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Scots
Attached 4th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 11.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 22 Aug 1881 in France Lynch Parsonage, Gloucestershire only son of Rev Pitt and Charlotte Elizabeth (Davidson) Eykyn. Educated at Haileybury College 1895 and Clayesmore School. He married Emily Constance Norton on 28 Nov 1902 in Bombay Cathedral and had one son. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1899, promoted Lieutenant 24 Dec 1901, transferred to the Indian Army for one year and then joined the Royal Scots on 4 Feb 1905.
Wartime Service
Promoted to Captain on 26 June 1914. He had served 11 years in India and in the South African War. Attached to the 4th Yorks, of which he had been Adjutant, he fell in their first engagement while leading the regiment in the storming of St Julien during the second battle of Ypres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
