2nd Lieutenant Terence Donaugh O'Brien


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Reference WMO/217479

Address:

St Margaret the Queen Church

Off A272

Buxted

TN22 4AY

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Nowy headed plaque mounted onto an nowy headed dark green and white marble backboard. The words are in Roman capital and lower case lettering and all inscribing is infilled with white. The maker's name is bottom right. Border of intertwined oak leaves, shamrock and cupped acorns is incised on the plaque. Within the nowy-head is the first quarter of the coat of arms of the O'Brien family with their crest and motto. At the top of the brass is inscribed the badge of the 16th Lancers and at the right of that of the Royal Flying Corps. His mother was from Worcester Park.
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In loving memory of/ 2nd Lieut.TERENCE DONOUGH O'BRIEN/ 16th Lancers attached Royal Flying Corps/ only son of/ Brigadier General Edmund Donough John O'Brien C.B. late 14th (Kings Hussars)/ and Florence Harriet O'Brien daughter of Henry Wheeler of Worcester/ Park House, Worcester Park, Surrey, and grandson of Lieut. Col. Sir John/ Terence Nicholls O'Brien K.C.M.G. Governor of Heligoland and Newfoundland./ Born on February 28th 1996. Killed in action returning after/ reconnaissance on March 3rd 1916 at Abeele, near Poperinghe, Flanders./ Buried at Lysenthoek Military Cemetery near Poperinghe,/ having served with the British Expeditionary Force from October 1914.// "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"/ Erected by his parents and only sister Eileen Gladys,/ wife of Major E.L.Gossage M.C. Royal Field Artillery & Royal Flying Corps./

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