Lieutenant Ronald Hermann ACKERLEY (1910)
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3rd Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers
Born 15 February 1892 in Newton Abbot, Devon
Killed in action 16 May 1915, aged 23
Buried at Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France
Ronald Ackerley, known to his family as Hermann, was the eldest son of Dr Richard Ackerley & Eliza Helen, née Page, of Llandrindod Wells.
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He was educated at Eton, and came up to Merton College as a Postmaster. Whilst at Oxford he was a member of the Officers’ Training Corps.
He volunteered for service on 8 August 1914, and was gazetted to the 3rd Royal Welch Fusiliers as Second Lieutenant. He went to the front on 1 February 1915.
He was killed in action at Festubert, on 16 May 1915.