Name
Jack Aubrey Sykes
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/10/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Gordon Highlanders
3rd Bn., attached to Royal Air Force 48th Squadron
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DADIZEELE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
VI. B. 39.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 8 May 1899 in Clewer, Windsor son of James Dixon and Hope Gertrude (Keith) Sykes of Langley Rectory, Maidstone. Educated at Haileybury College 1914-15.
Wartime Service
Gazetted on 28 Dec 19115 2nd Lieutenant Gordon Highlanders, he was attached to the Royal Air Force and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Brother of Captain Ronald Arthur Sykes who was killed in action on 28 Apr 1917 and of Lieutenant Harold Keith Sykes who was killed in a flying accident on 29 Jun 1917 and who are all commemorated on these uk memorials.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
