Harrogate Herald - 10th April 1918

Lieutenant R B C Aked, Military Cross, North Staffordshire Regiment, who is reported missing from March 21st, is 20 years of age, and the second son of Mr and Mrs Henry E Aked, of Highgreen House, Harrogate. Educated at the Old College, Windermere, and Charterhouse, he received his commission before he was 18 years of age, and as recently as last January obtained the Military Cross. His elder brother, Lieutenant H L C Aked, has been a prisoner for two years.

Harrogate Herald - 26th March 1919

Photo - Lieutenant Robert Basil Cautley Aked, Military Cross, 5th North Staffordshires, son of Mr and Mrs H E Aked, Highgreen House, Harrogate, reported missing March 21st, 1918, is now presumed to have been killed on that date.

SDGW

5th Battalion (Territorial), Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)

Lt Robert Basil Cautley Aked, MC

Died : 21st March 1918

KIA

CWGC

In Memory of

ROBERT BASIL CAUTLEY AKED MC

Lieutenant 2nd/5th Bn., North Staffordshire Regiment who died on Thursday, 21st March 1918. Age 20.

Additional Information : Son of Henry Edward Aked and Eleanor Aked, of "Mablethorpe", Leeds Rd., Harrogate, Yorks.

Commemorative Information

Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference/Panel Number: Bay 7 and 8