Name
Harold Keith Sykes
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/06/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Flying Corps
42nd Squadron
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD
III. D. 134.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 7 Jul 1891 and baptised on 2 Aug 1891 in Clewer, Windsor, Berkshire son of James Dixon and Hope Gertrude Sykes. Educated at Haileybury College 1906-08 he became a solicitor’s articled clerk and later lived at 109 Ebury Street, Middlesex.
Wartime Service
Formerly gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Royal Fusiliers on 26 Feb 1915 and entered France on 30 Jul 1915. He was attached to the Royal Flying Corps and was killed accidentally in France.
Additional Information
Brother of Lieutenant Jack Aubrey Sykes who was killed in action on 3 Oct 1918 and of Captain Ronald Arthur Sykes who died of wounds on 28 Apr 1917 and are all commemorated on these memorials.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
