Name
Oswald Camplyon Hutchinson Osmaston (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/08/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Engineers
12th Field Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
III. J. 15
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 17 Mar 1897 in Portsea Island, Hampshire son of Bertram Beresford and Catherine Mary (Hutchinson) Osmaston of Pachmarhi, Central Provinces, India. Educated at the United Services College 1907-11, Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Gold Medal). He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Royal Engineers on 28 Jul 1915, he entered France in Feb 1916 and was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 Jul 1917. Served near Ypres where was wounded and invalided home in Jun 1916. On the occasion of his MC: “Your Commanding Officer and Brigade Commander have informed me that you distinguished yourself near Ypres on night of 3rd-4th June [1916] by conspicuous gallantry, coolness and ability when erecting a wire entanglement over 300 yards of very bad ground on left wing of the attack, also by marking out a trench in the dark and directing the efforts of a digging party of 100 men, all this being accomplished under heavy sniping and machine gun fire. I have read their report with much pleasure.” by Major-General C. Ross, commanding 6th Division. He returned to the front in Jan 1917 and was killed in action near Lens.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
