Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Belper, Derbyshire, 4th May 1893. Lived at Stonebroom, Derbyshire and Radford, Nottingham. Son of the Reverend William and Edith Hornby Round, of East Drayton Vicarage, Nottinghamshire. Educated at St. John’s School, Leatherhead, from 1903 and then in 1913 to Downing College Cambridge. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the 1/7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 26th August 1914 and went to France 28th February 1915. Promoted Lieutenant 20th August 1915 and Captain in September 1915. He was killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 23, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried : Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1, Row L. Grave 18.

Captain William Haldane Round is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Downing College Roll of Honour , Cambridge University, Cambridge.
All Saint’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.