Person:William Oakshott (1)

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William Albert Neville Oakshott
b.Abt 1891
d.16 Aug 1917 Ypres, France.
m. 5 Sep 1889
  1. William Albert Neville OakshottAbt 1891 - 1917
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Name William Albert Neville Oakshott
Alt Name William Albert Neville Oakshott
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1891
Death[2] 16 Aug 1917 Ypres, France.
Burial? Tyne Cot Memorial Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Other[3] Notes
References
  1. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, by Sir Bernard Burke. London: 1912.
  2. Source.
  3. St. Mary's Church, Parish of Marmullane, Passage West, Co. Cork. Gravestone:

    Also of their only son

    Wm Albert Neville Oakshott

    Lieut. 7th Royal Irish Rifles

    Killed in action near Ypres,

    August 16th, 1917, aged 26 years

    and whose place of burial is unknown

    St. Mary's Church, Parish of Marmullane, Passage West, Co. Cork. Memorial inside Church:

    To the Glory of God

    And in Loving Memory of

    Albert Neville Oakshott

    Lieutenant, Royal Irish Rifles

    Killed in action east of Ypres, August 16, 1917

    Aged 26 years

    Only son of James & Mary Oakshott

    "Faithful unto Death"

    In Memory of

    Albert Neville Oakshott

    Lieutenant, 7th Bn, Royal Irish Rifles

    who died on

    Thursday, 16 August 1917. Age 26.

    Son of James Albert and Mary Townsend Oakshott of The Shrubberies, Monkstown, Co. Cork. (Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Available: http://www.cwgc.org/)

    Lieutenant Oakshott was the only son of Dr. Oakshott, R.M.S., Waterford Asylum, his mother being the youngest daughter of the late Mr. WIlliam D'Esterre Parker, The Green. He was a medical student at Trinity, but responded at once to the call, and, receiving his commission, was gazetted to one of the Royal Irish Regiments... (United Church of Ireland Monthly, 1917).