Details: Michael Mervyn Lyon Archdale (1921-1944), born 6 March 1921, son of Lt.-Col. F.A. Archdale and Mrs. M. Archdale of Southbourne, Bournemouth, Hampshire (formerly of Egmore, Wayside Road, Southbourne-on-Sea, and of 24 Reay Road, Karachi, India).
Attended Pembroke Lodge, Southbourne-on-Sea.
Attended Sherborne School (The Green) September 1934-July 1937.
WW2, Lieutenant in the Royal Ulster Rifles, attached to Airborne Division. Killed in action near Caen, Normandy, on 25 June 1944.
Commemorated at:
Bayeux Memorial, Panel 17, Column 3.
Sherborne School: War Memorial Staircase; Book of Remembrance; The Green roll of honour.
Obituary, 'The Shirburnian', December 1945: 'Michael Mervyn Lyon Archdale, Lieutenant, Royal Ulster Rifles, was reported missing in Normandy in July 1944, and he is now presumed to have lost his life while out on a patrol. He came to Sherborne from Sandle Manor in September 1934, and left in July 1937. He left school too young ever to reach any position of authority, but he represented the school at Bisley in 1937. His was a shy and retiring nature, but he had a great love for the school, as was shown by the frequency with which he revisited it whenever his military duties permitted.'
