Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 6th _s._ of John Orr, of 24,
Belmont Gardens, Glasgow, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Abreauden
Ross, Railway Contractor; _b._ Glasgow, 19 Dec. 1878; educ. at
the Academy there. He commenced his business career in Glasgow in the
office of the United Kingdom Provident Institution, and remained with
them until he joined the Scottish Life Assurance Co. as Assistant
Secretary in London in 1908, and was still in the latter company’s
employ when he joined the O.T.C. at the Inns of Court. He was training
at Berkhampstead for four months, when he obtained his commission, 5
March, 1915. He joined his regt. at St. Albans, and proceeded with
it to France nine days later, served in France and Flanders, and was
killed in action in the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915. He was buried
at North Maroc, near Grenay. A good many years ago 2nd Lieut. Orr won a
high reputation as a golfer. He was one of the foremost players in the
Prestwick St. Nicholas Club, and gained many individual successes; but
he will be remembered even more for his resourcefulness in the foursome
form of the game. A neat and stylish golfer, he possessed temperamental
qualities which made him an ideal partner in double harness. In 1908 he
had the distinction of winning with his partner for the New Alban Club
(Edinburgh) the “Evening Times” foursome tournament; and, in the same
year, he was one of the quartette of players who enabled the New Alban
Club to carry off also the “Evening Dispatch” trophy. When he went to
London he joined the Northwood Club, and, in partnership with another
member, succeeded in winning the London Amateur Foursomes in 1912.
Though he never gained the highest honours in the Amateur Championship,
2nd Lieut. Orr was among the last eight in 1906; he also qualified
three times--in fact, each time he entered--for the Open Championship.
Brig.-Gen. Thwaites wrote to his wife: “He died in the full performance
of his duty, superintending the establishment of communications for
his battn. He came to his death ... as a brave soldier and gallant
English gentleman should do.” He _m._ at Belhaven Church, Glasgow,
3 April, 1909, Annie Margaret (8, Springfield Road, St. John’s Wood,
N.W.), dau. of the late James Crichton, of Edinburgh, J.P.; _s.p._
[Illustration: =Robert Watson Orr.=]
=ORR, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 7938, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.,
_s._ of William Orr, of 19, Carlisle Road, Londonderry; served
with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 16 May, 1915, of
wounds received in action at Richebourg.
=ORROW, ALBERT WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 6317, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ORSLER, GEORGE HENRY=, Private, No. 9144, 1st Battn. Scots
Guards, _s._ of John Orsler, of Bridge Street, Framlingham, co.
Suffolk; _b._ Framlingham; enlisted 14 Oct. 1914; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 1 Jan.
1915.
=ORTON, JAMES=, Private, No. 7602, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards,
eldest _s._ of James Orton, of 3, Victoria Street, Hinckley,
by his wife, Maria, dau. of Samuel Spare; _b._ Hinckley, co.
Leicester, 31 July, 1887; educ. Hinckley Church School; enlisted 11
Jan. 1908; went to France, August, 1914. and was killed instantly
in action near Vermelles, Belgium, 24 Oct. 1915; _unm._ Sergt.
Maddison wrote “he had always done his duty well, and was performing a
dangerous task when he was shot.” His brother was killed in action, 20
Dec. 1915.
[Illustration: =James Orton.=]
=ORTON, JOHN THOMAS=, Private. No. 12933, B Coy., 8th (Service)
Battn. Leicestershire Regt., 3rd _s._ of James Orton, of 3,
Victoria Street, Hinckley, by his wife. Maria, dau. of Samuel Spare;
educ. Hinckley Council School; was a Shoe Hand; volunteered after the
outbreak of war, and joined the 8th Leicesters, 3 Sept. 1914; served
with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 28 July to 20
Dec. 1915, on which day he was killed in action, two months after his
elder brother; _unm._ His company officer, Capt. H. L. Beardsley,
wrote: “It is with much regret, and the deep sympathy of myself and the
other officers of my company, that I have to convey the sad news of the
death of your boy, who was killed by a sniper on the 20th inst. whilst
carrying out his duties; he was shot through the heart and died almost
immediately. A thorough, conscientious, hard-working lad, he will be
sadly missed by us all.”
=OSBEN, GEORGE THOMAS=, Private. R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 11918,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914; _m._
=OSBORNE, ALBERT VINCENT=, Private, No. 1837, 5th (Cinque Ports)
Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Albert Osborne,
of Water Mill, Guestling, by his wife, Kate, dau. of William Dennett;
_b._ Guestling, co. Sussex, 23 Nov. 1893; educ. there; was a
Milkman; joined the Sussex Territorials, 26 Feb. 1914; volunteered for
foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was sent to Dover,
and then to the Tower; went to France, 18 Feb. 1915, and, after being
in the trenches, was resting at a farm on 16 May, when a shell burst,
killing and wounding many. Osborne was sent to the 2nd General Hospital
at Manchester, where he died, 24 May, 1915; _unm._
=OSBORNE, BRIAN=, Capt., 15th (The King’s) Hussars, yr. _s._
of the late Capt. Frank Osborn, of Harbury Hall, near Leamington, 13th
Hussars, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Thomas Lever Rushton; _b._
Sydney, N.S.W., 18 Nov. 1888; educ. Harrow, and the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 15th Hussars, 8 Feb.
1908, and promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1909, and Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; went to
France, 23 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, 11 Nov. 1914, during
the assault on the trenches near Herenthaze Château by the Prussian
Guard. He had been sent with his machine gun to support the Duke of
Wellington’s Regt. He was at first reported missing, and it was not
until the following March that confirmation of his death was received
in a letter from one of his machine gun section, a prisoner of war
in Germany; _unm._ At Harrow he was successful in both cricket
and football, and was first string at racquets; at Sandhurst he won
the sword of honour; and in 1908, after joining the 15th Hussars,
he attained a great record of first-spears in pig-sticking when
quartered at Muttra. As a polo player he came to the front with amazing
rapidity, playing for his regimental team and winning the South African
Inter-Regimental Tournament in 1911, and repeating the event against
more powerful opponents in the English Inter-Regimental Tournament at
Hurlingham in 1913. As a member of the Cavalry School team and the
Cavalry Club team he lent his aid successfully, and was invited by Lord
Ashby St. Ledger, now Lord Wimborne, to practise in the international
team of 1914, as choice for the American Expedition. He was a fine
rider to hounds, and well known in the Warwickshire country.
[Illustration: =Brian Osborne.=]
=OSBORNE, FRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9092), 198537, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=OSBORNE, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 1597, 1/6th (Cyclist) Battn.
Suffolk Regt.(T.F.), 2nd _s._ of William Osborne, of 33, Salisbury
Road, South Lowestoft, one of the staff of Lowestoft Central Station,
by his wife, Mary Ann. dau. of (--) Hill, of London; _b._
Lowestoft, 19 April, 1892; educ. there; was a Waiter at the Imperial
Hotel, Lowestoft; volunteered and joined the Cyclist Battn. of the
Suffolk Regt. in Oct. 1914, and died in the Isolation Hospital,
Lowestoft, 2 Feb. 1915, of disease contracted while on active service;
_unm._
=OSBORNE, JOHN ALFRED VICTOR=, Private, No. 3204, 2/1st Battn.
(Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of George
Christopher Osborne, ex-Sergt. Criminal Investigation Department, New
Scotland Yard, by his wife, Louisa Helen, dau. of George Peall, of
Chertsey, Surrey; _b._ Marylebone, London, 17 June, 1897; educ.
Barnsbury Park High Grade School; volunteered after the outbreak of war
and joined the Royal Fusiliers, 12 Nov. 1914; trained at Tonbridge;
went to Malta, 1 Feb. 1915, where the regt. performed garrison duty
until 9 Sept., when they were sent to Egypt, and thence to the
Dardanelles on the 19th, where he died, 27 Sept. 1915, of wounds
received in action; _unm._ A comrade wrote; “I was out with your
son on the night he was killed, but was not very near to him, so I did
not see the last of him. He was shot in the muscle of the arm by an
explosive bullet, and got wounded very severely, dying on admission to
the hospital. He was buried by some of his fellow mates, and a cross
erected over his grave with suitable wording. If ever a man died doing
his duty for his King and Country, your son did, and it was a marvel to
me how the remainder of us out that night did not get killed.... Our
platoon have been very unlucky, and out of Jack’s section there are
only about three of us left.”
[Illustration: =John Alfred V. Osborne.=]
=OSBORNE, JOHN HENRY=, Leading Stoker (Coastguard), 308083, H.M.S.
Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=OSBORNE, LESLIE HALL=, Lieut., 9th Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd
_s._ of John Hall Osborne, of Summer Court, Queen’s Walk, Ealing,
formerly of China, by his wife, Jane Jenkinson, dau. of Capt. John
Whittle; _b._ Shanghai, China, 2 July, 1894; educ. St. Edmund’s,
Canterbury, where he won distinction on the Modern side, and went into
residence at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in Oct. 1912. Having tried
for an Honorary Entrance Scholarship in Medieval and Modern Languages
in 1911, he was placed 2nd Class in that subject in the Intercollegiate
examination of July, 1914, and was given his degree in the following
year under the regulations for men on active service. He was studying
at Greifswold when war was declared, and going (5 Aug. 1914) to Stettin
to appeal for help to the British Consul, was arrested as a spy and
detained for four days, when he was released and ordered to leave the
country. At St. Edmund’s he had been a keen member of the O.T.C.,
gaining Certificates A and B, and on reaching England he applied for
a commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut., 9th Lancashire Fusiliers, 2
Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 June, 1915. He left England with his
regt. early in July; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay on the night
of 6 Aug. 1915, and fell the following day early in the advance to the
attack of Hill 10, shot through the heart. His body was recovered next
night and buried with those of five brother officers in rising ground
about the middle of Suvla Beach, just north of the Canal that leads
into the Salt Lake; _unm._ His elder brother, 2nd Lieut. W. J.
Osborne, was mortally wounded in the same action. While at Christ’s
College, Cambridge, he took an active part in the Hockey XI. and in the
Lent term, 1913, played in goal in most of the University matches. He
also occasionally played for the Surrey Club.
[Illustration: =Leslie Hall Osborne.=]
=OSBORNE, MAURICE GODOLPHIN=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, 3rd
and yst. _s._ of the late Sidney Goldolphin Osborne, Commissioner
of Inland Revenue (died 1903), by his wife, Margaret Dulcibella (51,
Elm Park Gardens, London, S.W.), dau. of Hugh Hammersley, of 6,
Cromwell Gardens, London, and grandson of the late Rev. Lord Sidney
Godolphin Osborne [yr. bro. of George, 8th Duke of Leeds]; _b._
London, S.W., 1 July, 1889; educ. The Old Ride, Bournemouth and
Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Rifle Brigade, 20
April, 1910; promoted Lieut. 23 Dec. 1911, and Capt. 15 Dec. 1914;
was appointed machine gun officer in May, 1913; went to France, 5
Sept. 1914, and died in Bailleul Hospital, 25 Feb. 1915, of wounds
received in action in the trenches near Armentières on the 10th,
while making an emplacement for one of his machine guns; _unm._
Buried at Bailleul. Capt. Osborne was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now
Lord) French’s Despatch of 23 June, 1915. He was a member of the
Army Revolver Thirty in 1912, and won several cups and prizes in the
All-Ireland Rifle Meeting of 1912 and 1913, both individually and
in the Regimental Officers’ Team, and in 1911 he won the Regimental
Heavyweight Point-to-Point, on his own horse Chance.
=OSBORNE, WILLIAM JOHN=, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Lancashire
Fusiliers, eldest _s._ of John Hall Osborne, of Summer Court,
Queen’s Walk, Ealing, formerly of China, by his wife, Jane Jenkinson,
dau. of Capt. John Whittle; _b._ Tientsin, China, 9 Nov. 1891;
educ. St. Edmunds, Canterbury, and in Germany for some months, and
after spending two years in the office of a Chartered Accountant,
entered his father’s office in London, and was to have taken up an
appointment in China in Oct. 1914. At school he was a member of the
O.T.C., and during his subsequent residence in London joined the
H.A.C., but had resigned some time before war was declared. He enlisted
in the 18th Battn. (1st Public School) Royal Fusiliers, 11 Sept. 1914,
and was given a commission, 24 Nov., and posted to the 9th (Service)
Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers with which regt. he left England in July.
On 6 Aug. they landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. He was wounded the
following morning in an attack on Hill 10, and died of his wounds
two days later (9th) on board the Hospital Ship Sudan. His company
commander (Capt. Milnes), writing from Alexandria, said: “The men who
are back here wounded, all say how very well he did during the landing.
He was an excellent officer who looked after his men, often at the
expense of himself, and no work was too big for him. He never left
anything unfinished. He was a good friend and my right hand platoon
officer.” A brother officer who picked him up, and had him carried
off the field, said he was quite cheerful though very weak, and only
anxious about his men and his brother (Lieut. L. H. Osborne, who was
killed there the same day, see his notice). 2nd Lieut. Osborne was
conspicuous at school as an athlete, especially in hockey and football,
and was always deeply interested in natural history, especially in
birds; in fact, sports of all kinds appealed to him very strongly. He
was a member of the Wild Fowlers’ Association and of the True Waltonian
Society.
[Illustration: =William John Osborne.=]
=O’SHEA, MICHAEL JOHN=, Private, No. 5111, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh
Fusiliers, _s._ of Patrick O’Shea, of 70, Ethel Street, Cardiff,
Labourer, by his wife, Mary; _b._ Cardiff, 3 Jan. 1897; educ. St.
Mary’s Roman Catholic School, Canton, Cardiff; enlisted 1 Nov. 1913;
went to France 21 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée 21
Dec. following. His company officer, Capt. Ford, wrote highly of him,
and added he “was buried beside a shrine, and his grave is beautifully
turfed and has a cross with his name on it.”
[Illustration: =Michael John O’Shea.=]
=OSMOND, ERNEST HERBERT=, Pensioner, Blacksmith, 340821, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=OSMOND, HAROLD COOMBS=, Cook’s Mate M. 5542, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=O’SULLIVAN, ARTHUR MOORE=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles,
only _s._ of the late Patrick O’Sullivan, Advocate-General, Madras
Presidency, by his wife, Sydney Jane (Auburn, Greystones, co. Wicklow),
dau. of William Daniel Moore, M.D.; _b._ Ootacamund, India, 19
Aug. 1878; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and Hertford College, Oxford;
enlisted in the Oxfordshire L.I. in 1900; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the
Royal Irish Rifles, 23 July, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1906;
Capt. 11 March, 1910; was adjutant of his regiment from 1 Jan. 1910 to
31 Dec. 1912; served in the South African War, 1900–01; took part in
the operations in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal,
April, 1900, to April, 1901 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); was
employed with the West African Frontier Force, 1 Oct. 1905 to 22 Nov.
1907; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Nov. 1914, and
was killed in action at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ Capt.
O’Sullivan was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31
May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.
[Illustration: =Arthur Moore O’Sullivan.=]
=OTELLIE, WILLIAM GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3678), 196618, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=OTTLEY, GEOFFREY CLAUDE LANGDALE, D.S.O.=, Lieut., 2nd Battn.
Scots Guards, only child of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Langdale Ottley,
of 17, Queen’s Gate Gardens, S.W., and Coruanan, Fort William,
Inverness-shire, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O., by his wife, Kathleen
Margaret, dau. of Col. Alexander Stewart, R.A., and grandson of the
Rev. Lawrence Ottley, Canon of Ripon; _b._ Southsea, co. Hants,
20 Jan. 1896; educ. Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Scots Guards, 1 Oct. 1914; promoted Lieut.
10 Dec. (ante-dated to 9 Nov.); went to France, 7 Nov., and died in
the Australian Voluntary Hospital, Wimereux, near Boulogne, 21 Dec.
1914, of wounds received in action while leading an attack on the
enemy’s trenches on the 18th. Lieut. Ottley was mentioned in Sir John
(now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb.
1915], and was awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous gallantry and good
reconnaissance work.
=OUSLEY, GEORGE=, Leading Seaman, 230179, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost
in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=OWEN, ALFRED FREDERICK=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 204497, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=OWEN, CHARLES=, L.-Corpl., No. 7668, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent
Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in
action, 23 Aug. 1914.
=OWEN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 9004, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action,
1 Jan. 1915.
=OWEN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 10022, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards;
_b._ Bushey, co. Renfrew; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 16–18
May, 1915. Buried near Richebourg St. Vaast, in front of Dead Cow Farm;
_m._
=OWEN, EDWARD REID=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 107833, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=OWEN, ERNEST HADDON=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt.,
attd. 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, elder _s._ of William
Haddon Owen, of Louth, co. Lincoln, formerly of Little Grimsby Hall,
co. Lincoln, Solicitor, by his wife, Elizabeth Vincent, dau. of Charles
Leftwich Oldfeld Bartlett, of Burton House, Sherborne; _b._
Louth, 4 Feb. 1886; educ. Llandaff Cathedral School, Stancliffe Hall
Preparatory, and Haileybury, where he was in the College Cadet Corps;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th (Militia) Battn. Lincolnshire Regt.,
15 Oct. 1904; later transferring to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn.,
and was promoted Lieut. 8 May, 1911, and was Musketry Instructor; left
the Army in 1912; was admitted a Solicitor in 1909, joining the firm
of Haddon Owen & Son, of Louth. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his
old regt., 15 Aug. 1914, with the rank of 2nd Lieut., and was gazetted
Lieut. 23 Dec. 1914; went to France, 12 Nov., being attd. to the South
Wales Borderers, and was killed in action at Festubert, 21 Dec. 1914;
_unm._ Buried on the battlefield. His commanding officer wrote:
“He was killed leading his men into the trenches, and was shot in the
head when only three or four yards off them. He was slightly wounded
in the neck a short time before, but gallantly led his men on”; and
a brother subaltern: “Your son was in the leading company. We had to
drive the Germans from the trenches which the Indians had lost the day
previously. You will be glad to hear we got those trenches. He was most
brave in the advance, and those of us who saw him advance could not
help but note his coolness and unconcern.”
[Illustration: =Ernest Haddon Owen.=]
=OWEN, FRANK JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I., 12974 (R.F.R., Ch. B.
1437), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=OWEN, GEORGE WEBSTER=, Capt., 1/10th Battn. The Manchester Regt.
(T.F.), _s._ of the late Thomas Owen, of The Pollards, Penketh,
near Warrington; _b._ Eccleston, co. Lancaster, 27 July, 1882;
educ. Warrington Grammar School, and Manchester University (where
he was in the O.T.C.), and later was a Yarn Agent in Manchester. He
joined the 2nd Volunteer Battn. Manchester Regt. in 1899; was given a
commission as 2nd Lieut., in the 10th Battn. Manchester Territorials,
... April, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 15 March, 1912, and Capt. 31 Aug.
1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; served
with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was
killed in action there, 6 June, 1915, during the attack on Krithia.
Lieut.-Col. J. B. Rye wrote: “He was with his company, which had been
attd. to the Royal Fusiliers, and during the three days’ hard fighting
had made quite a name for himself, by the leading of his men and the
example he set them, and it was whilst taking them on to recapture
a Turkish trench that he was killed. Please accept the most sincere
sympathy of myself and all the officers, non-commissioned officers
and men of his Battn. in your great loss. We have lost a cheerful and
popular comrade.” Capt. Owen _m._ at Unnston, co. Lincoln, 20
July, 1910, Ruth Mary (Glentworth, Ramillies Avenue, Cheadle Hulme,
Cheshire), dau. of S. W. Cocks, of Unnston; _s.p._
=OWEN, HUGH=, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd Battn. The Border Regt.,
yr. _s._ of Sol Owen, of Odessa, Russia, Merchant, by his wife,
Elizabeth dau. of William Rees; _b._ Sevastopol, Crimea, 30 May,
1890; educ. Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Cranbrook (1901–7);
Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne (1907–10); and Durham University,
where he obtained his degree of B.Sc. While at Cranbrook he was in the
Cadet Corps, attd. 2nd Volunteer Battn. The Buffs, East Kent Regt.,
and at Durham University was a Corpl. in the O.T.C. On the outbreak of
war he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Border Regt., 21 Aug. 1914, and
promoted Lieut. 8 April, 1915; went to the Front, 13 Nov. 1914; was
wounded at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; returned to duty on 6 April,
and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Hugh Owen.=]
=OWEN, NORMAN MOORE=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, yr.
_s._ of the Rev. Octavius Edward Owen, Rector of Over Wallop, co.
Hants, formerly Lieut. Royal Marine Artillery, by his wife, Ella Jane,
yr. dau. of Col. John Patrick Briggs, of Strathairly, Fife, late Indian
Army, _b._ Flempton Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds, 16 Dec. 1893; educ.
Stubbington House, Fareham, and Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut.
18 July, 1913; went to France 18 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at
the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. 1914; _unm._ Buried at Chassemy,
France.
[Illustration: =Norman Moore Owen.=]
=OWEN, THOMAS=, Private, No. G./1234 (8th Service) Battn. Royal
Fusiliers; served with the Expeditionary Force in France etc.; died 29
July, 1915, of wounds received in action.
=OXENBRIDGE, GEORGE HERBERT=, Private, No. 3644, 2/4th Battn.
Royal West Kent Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of George Edward
Oxenbridge, Private, Royal Sussex Regt. (now serving in Egypt), by
his wife, Eliza Annie (33, Shelly Cottage, Denny Bottom, Tunbridge
Wells); _b._ Tunbridge Wells, 26 April, 1897; educ. Rusthall and
Church of England Schools there; enlisted 21 Dec. 1914; served with
the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at
Gallipoli, 22 Aug. 1915, while acting as a stretcher-bearer, and was
buried at Anafarta Plain. An officer of his platoon wrote: “It was on
22 Aug., a man was wounded outside the trench; your son went out after
him to bring him in, and was shot dead. I was sorry indeed, as he was a
very good soldier, cheerful and very willing, also a general favourite
amongst his fellow comrades. He did a very brave act, and I am very
sorry indeed to lose him”; and a comrade: “We were in some heavy
fighting that day and chaps were shot down anyhow, and one Welsh boy
was severely wounded and laid out in front of our lines, and as they
asked for volunteers to fetch him in, Pat, who was a stretcher-bearer,
volunteered and was shot before he got to the chap; it was a very brave
deed and deserved the D.C.M. All our company miss him very much.”
[Illustration: =George H. Oxenbridge.=]
=OZANNE, EDWARD GRAEME=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only
_s._ of Edward Chepmell Ozanne, of Le Platon, Guernsey, Bailiff
of Guernsey, by his wife, Frances; _b._ Guernsey, 5 April, 1883;
educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Fusiliers, 8 May, 1901,
and promoted Lieut. 19 Oct. 1904, and Capt. 23 April, 1912; served
in the South African War, 1902; took part in the operations in the
Transvaal, and in those of the Orange River Colony and Cape Colony,
Feb.-31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the
Expeditionary Force in France from 18 Jan. to 14 Feb. 1915; and was
killed in action in trenches at Ypres on the latter date. Buried in
the Ramparts there. He _m._ at Bombay, India, 17 Oct. 1913, Aline
(52, Lower Sloane Street, S.W.), dau. of the late Lieut.-General Josias
Gordon Cloete, Indian Army; _s.p._