
The name of Basil Hoyle on the Loos Memorial. Photographed for ‘Marching in Memory’ for Combat Stress, July 2015
Battle of Loos
Basil Hoyle, E Social 1906. Captain, 9th Bn, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos. At Radley he was a serious scholar who won the Richards Gold Medal. He then went up to Balliol College, Oxford. He volunteered in 1914. He was promoted to Captain in July 1915. His grandfather was the Archbishop of York Aged 22 |