Name
John Iltid Royds
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) *1
1st/28th (County of London)(Reserve)Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath, Not on the Aldenham memorials
Pre War
Born on 13 Aug 1876 in Aldenham, Hertfordshire son of Charles Duncan and Ada Charlotte Francis Royds later of Brize's Park, Brentwood, Essex.
Educated at Haileybury College 1890-94. Enlisted Private 84 on 1 Apr 1908 in the 28th London Regiment, appointed C/Sergeant on 11 Mar 1913. He was an artist.
Wartime Service
John entered France on 26 Oct 1914 and was appointed Company Sergeant Major on 21 Mar 1915 He obtained his commission as 2nd Lieutenant on 17 Nov 1915 and was killed in action.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (University and Public Schools).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
