Name
Thomas Darwin Overton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/07/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Lincolnshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
REDOUBT CEMETERY, HELLES
Sp. Mem. B. 121.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
UK & Other Memorials
St John’s Church, High Cross
Separate Memorial in St John’s Church, High Cross
Thundridge War Memorial
War Cloister Outer E5 at Winchester College
Pre War
Born on 18 Jul 1894 in the Vicarage, High Cross, second son of the vicar, Rev. Frederick Arnold and Mrs. Ella Georgina (Edersheim) Overton and baptised in High Cross 5 Aug 1894 the 5th August 1894, in the Parish of High Cross. Educated at Winchester College. Thomas was educated at Winchester, and left in 1913 with an Exhibition to New College Oxford, but joined up immediately on the outbreak of war, and was commissioned into the 6th Lincolnshires. OTC training at Winchester may have accounted for his immediate commission.
Wartime Service
Commissioned 8 Sep 1914 into the newly formed battalion. Mobilised for war and embarked from Liverpool on 1 Jul 1915 for Gallipoli. Died at Achi Baba, Gallipoli on the day the battalion left Cape Helles for Suvla Bay. He was sadly the first officer in the Lincolnshires to be killed.
Additional Information
His father was the vicar of High Cross, later the Rector of East Barnet, and Canon of St Albans. His much younger brother Marcus Overton, whose daughters still live in High Cross and Standon, was killed in the Second World War. Photograph in Winchester Wa
Acknowledgments
Maurice Charge, Malcolm Lennox, Stuart Osborne, Pat Bird, Winchester College War records, Overton family memories
