Name
Omar Edward Harley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/12/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Battery Serjeant Major
38739
Royal Field Artillery
48th Reserve Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SHIPMEADOW (ST. BARTHOLOMEW) CHURCHYARD
Near South East corner of church.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Buntingford memorials, Shipmeadow, near Beccles, Suffolk
Pre War
He was born in Buntingford in 1873 to Samuel and Hephzibah Harley. The 1881 census shows him living with his widowed father in Whitwell, Norfolk.
By 1891 he is shown as a gunner in the Royal Artillery in Barracks in Great Yarmouth. Records show he was in Malta between 1906 to at least September 1909 where he is recorded in a Freemasons lodge called the Wayfarers Lodge. In 1901 he was in barracks at Dover Castle. He married Laura Smith in 1910. The 1911 census shows him as married but he is shown as being on a naval ship called HMS Rewa based at Southampton.
Wartime Service
His army records show he died in Upton War Hospital in Northamptonshire on 13 December 1916.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson
Jonty Wild, Carol Emery
