Further Information
This memorial is inscribed onto the side of a family vault grave, but the family is named Daubeney rather than Sykes-Banks. There is no obvious connection with between the two names, but as one of the sons is actually buried here it is assumed that there is some familial tie. As Major Cyril D'Albini Sykes-Banks was a casualty of WW1 the vault is treated as a war grave.
 
According to the CWGC, Major William Sykes-Banks (GSO, BEF) and his wife Eleanor lived at 19 Queen Square, Bath but Cheltenham appears to have a claim on them as well. At the website www.remembering.org.uk Eleanor is listed as living at Moorend Park, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham and the brothers are both mentioned as being uncommemorated locally.
 
Captain Raymond D'Albini Sykes-Banks does not appear in the CWGC lists under that name. Like his brother, Raymond was born in the Portsmouth area. He served as Captain, 9th Bhopal Infantry, Indian Army and was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 21st April 1917 aged 27 years. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial To The Missing.
 
Both Raymond and Cyril attended Wellington College between 1904 and 1908