OLIVER

Roderic Magrath

Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Killed in action 27th August 1918. Aged 36. Son of Roderic and Emily Mary Oliver, of Burnt Oak, Orlestone, Ashford, Kent. Born in London. Educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Solicitor in London. Buried in MORY ABBEY MILITARY CEMETERY, MORY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot V. Row C. Grave 16.

OLIVER

Thomas Frederick

Lieutenant, 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Died 26th October 1918. Aged 32. Son of Thomas William Neme Oliver and Florence Charlotte Oliver, of 26 Brunswick Terrace, Hove. Cremated in ST. JOHN'S CREMATORIUM, WOKING, Surrey. See also Hove Library Memorial

ORMSBY, C.B.

Vincent Alexander

Brigadier-General, General Staff commanding 127th Infantry Brigade, late 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles. Died 1st May 1917. Aged 51. Son of Capt. G. F. Ormsby (late Queen's Bays), and Mrs. Ormsby; husband of Agnes Ormsby, of 16, Glazbury Rd., West Kensington, London. Buried in VILLERS-FAUCON COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Somme, France. Plot/Row/Section D. Grave 41.

OSBORNE

Brian

[Spelt OSBOURNE on CWGC] Lieutenant, 15th (The King's) Hussars. Killed in action 11th November 1914. Aged 25. Son of Capt. Frank Osbourne (late 13th Hussars), of Harbury Hall, Leamington. Buried in BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Enclosure No.4 Plot IV. Row A. Grave 1.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour 1914-1918:

OSBORNE, BRIAN, Capt., 15th (The King's) Hussars, yr. s. of the late Capt. Frank Osborne, 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, 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 tile international team of 1914, as choice for the American Expedition. He was a fine rider to hounds, and well known in the Warwickshire country.

Extract from The Bond of Sacrifice Volume 1:

LIEUTENANT BRIAN OSBORNE, 15th (THE KING'S) HUSSARS, son of Captain Frank Osborne, late 13th Hussars, and Mrs. Osborne, Harbury Hall, Leamington, was born in Sydney, N.S.W., on the 18th November, 1888.

He was educated at Harrow, where he was in the Cricket and Football XI's, was 1st String at Racquets in 1906, and won the Ebrington Cup two years in succession. From Harrow he went direct to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, where his first promotion was to Colour-Sergeant, and on passing out was awarded the Sword of Honour. He was gazetted to the 15th Hussars in February, 1908, and joined them at Muttra, India. While there he had the record number of “first spears" for pig-sticking. He also played polo for his Regiment, and formed one of the Regimental team that won the Inter-Regimental Tournament in South Africa in 1911.

In 1912 he was at the Cavalry School, Netheravon, and played Number 1 in the 15th Hussars polo team that won the Inter-Regimental at Hurlingham in 1913, the year the Regiment returned to England. He also played in the Cavalry Club team that won the Ranelagh Open Cup in 1914, being handicapped at seven points. He was a very fine horseman, and a well-known rider to hounds, especially in Warwickshire, where his home was; and was a member of the Cavalry Club, the M.C.C., and Ranelagh.

Lieutenant Osborne was reported missing from the 11th November, 1914, when he was supporting the Duke of Wellington's Regiment with his machine gun in trenches near Herenthage Château, east of Ypres. One of the men of his machine-gun section, taken prisoner that day when the Prussian Guard made their last big attack, wrote in March, 1915, saying that Lieutenant Osborne was shot through the head about 7.30 on the morning of the 11th November.