Basic Details
Surname
Heywood
Forenames
Robert Myles
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
His biography on the college website states: ‘Robert Myles was born in Manchester, the only child of Robert and Annabel Crook Heywood of Hales Hall, Cheadle, Staffordshire. He was commissioned on 14 August 1914, Lieutenant 3rd Battalion E Kent Regiment. On 8 December 1914 he married Barbara de Hoghton, daughter of Sir James de Hoghton 11th Bart and Aimee Jean Grove of Hoghton Tower, Preston, Lancashire. He died of wounds received in action near St Eloi. He is commemorated in the parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Charlton, Dover, Kent, and on the Kingsley, Staffordshire, civic war memorial.
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Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Belgium
Town of death
St Eloi, near Ypres
Country of burial
Belgium
Town of burial
Poperinghe
Cemetery
Old Military Cemetery
Year of death
1915
Month of death
February
Day of death
15
Age at death
31
Manner of death reference
Died of Wounds