Detail victim

Name
Initials
Vorname
Place of birth Ranikhet
Land India
Last residence East House, Jesus College, Cambridge
Family Only son of Brigadier-General Edmund Donough O'Brien, C.B., C.B.E., late 14th Hussars, and Mrs. F. Harriet O'Brien, Buxted Rectory, Buxted, Sussex; one sister, Eileen;
Education St. Peter's, Broadstairs, Winchester and Royal Military College Sandhurst
Profession Military man
Extra info Memorial tablet in St. Margaret's, Buxted.

Place & date of enlistment 14 August 1914 (posted to the 16th Lancers)
Rank Second Lieutenant
Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
Attached or transferred from 16th - Bn. - Lancers
Other data related to military career He proceeded to join his regiment (16th Lancers) in Flanders on October 23rd, 1914, and was present in the action of February 21st, 1915, in the trenches at Zillebeke, when the 16th Lancers lost very heavily. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in September, 1915, as an observer, since which date he had been continuously employed.

Wounded 3 March, Abeele aerodrome; while landing on returning from a reconnaissance as an observer in 4324 BE2c; the pilot Lt. Pierpont RA was slightly injured;
Type of wounds Killed in flying accident
Died at the age of 20
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery II - A - 45