page_title: Harold Ackroyd
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Harold Ackroyd / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Royston: houses on Kneesworth Street
context_page_description: Harold Ackroyd, VC, MC was a British physician, scientific researcher, army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
  An officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War, he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in late July–early August 1917, during the Battle of Passchendaele.
context_section_description: Ackroyd met Mabel Robina Smythe (1877–1947) matron of Strangeways Hospital while at Cambridge. They were married on 1 August 1908 and lived in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire where their children Ursula (1909–1993) and Stephen (1912–1963) were born. They then moved to Brooklands, 46 Kneesworth Street, Royston, Hertfordshire, where Anthony (1914–1988) was born. The house is presently owned by an investment company where there is a memorial to Ackroyd on the street-facing wall and inside the house. Another road in the town has been named after him.
caption: 46 Kneesworth Street, Royston
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