Robert Leycester Haymes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRobert Leycester Haymes
British Army officer
Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1870
Place of Birth: Hopesay, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 16-May-1942
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Robert Leycester Haymes
- Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Leycester Haymes (31 December 1870 – 16 May 1942) was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army, Commander of the 6th Siege Battery during World War I and one of the first officers to establish an O.P.
- at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
- A collection of Haymes’s World War I photographs held at the Imperial War Museum while he was in the O.P.
- and Commander of the 6th Siege Battery provide a unique insight into the early days of World War I including one of the first 9.2 inch howitzers to arrive in Flanders and the Headquarters of the 14th Division at Pont de Nieppe during the visit of King George VI and the Prince of Wales on 2 December 1914.
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