Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Norfolk Regiment
Born: September 10th 1899
Died: February 14-15th 1942
Age at Death: 42
Killed in hospital by the Japanese, February 14-15th 1942
House Prefect 1915
Head of School 1917
1st 11 Cricket 1917
1st 11 Football 1917
Ian was born on 10 September 1899 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland, to Edwin Lywood, the scion of a farming family who later became a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Marines, and his wife Ethel (née Wells). Ian joined the Royal Norfolk Regiment during the Great War and stayed on in peacetime, rising up the ranks. By February 1942 he was a lieutenant-colonel in charge of the regiment’s 2nd Battalion.
Lywood was murdered in hospital by the Japanese when Singapore fell to the Japanese, on 14 or 15 February 1942, and was among the first of thousands of Britons to fall prey to Japanese military atrocities during the war. He is buried at Singapore’s Kranji Military Cemetery.
To mark Remembrance in 2023, two Brighton College families visited Kranji War Cemetery, and placed flowers and poppies on Ian’s grave.