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.