Name
Oliver Babbington Macausland
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Irish Rifles
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NEUVE-CHAPELLE MEMORIAL
Panel 1.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Errigal Church, Garvagh, Co. Derry, Ireland
Pre War
Born on 28 Nov 1895 in Rawalpindi, Punjab, India son of Lt. Col. Redmond Conyngham Samuel and Mrs. Jane Isabella (Keown) Macausland, of Woodbank, Garvagh, Co. Derry, Ireland. Educated at Haileybury College 1909-12 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (Prize Cadet). He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant to the unattached list, Indian Army on 8 Aug 1914 and the same month joined 4th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles at Hollywood, Co. Down. Posted as Lieutenant to 1st Bn. R.I.R. in France in Mar 1915 and was killed in action while leading his platoon in the charge at Fromelles.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
