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Persoonsgegevens

  • O'BRIEN
  • TD
  • TERENCE DONOUGH
  • Ranikhet
  • India
  • East House, Jesus College, Cambridge
  • 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;
  • St. Peter's, Broadstairs, Winchester and Royal Military College Sandhurst
  • Military man
  • Memorial tablet in St. Margaret's, Buxted.

Militaire dienst

  • 14 August 1914 (posted to the 16th Lancers)
  • Second Lieutenant
  • 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
  • 16th - Bn. - Lancers
  • 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.

Overlijden

  • 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;
  • Killed in flying accident
  • 3 March 1916
  • 20
  • II - A - 45

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