130598 Private Robert Vyell of the 50th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (formerly 654303 East Surrey Regiment), was killed in action on the 6th June 1918. Robert was a Londoner; a young soldier born in Hackney in late 1898 or early 1899 who enlisted (or was conscripted) at Tottenham. He appears on the 1901 census as a two year-old living at 22 Middleton Road, Hackney with his sisters Catherine G Vyell (aged eight) and Liliam M Vyell (aged three months). His parents are recorded as Annie G[race] Vyell (nee Brady, aged 30) and Robert Vyell, a 32 year-old Tottenham-born plasterer. Annie Vyell was born at Clerkenwell and all the children in Hackney.
Robert Vyell has no known grave and is one of nearly 4000 men commemorated on the Soissons Memorial in France.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (MIC, 1901 census, BMD registers)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (MIC, 1901 census, BMD registers)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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