Oscar Featherstone (1888 - 1915)

Ancestors

Died 5 Sep 1915 at age 26 in Flanders, France

Biography

Birth

Date: DEC 1888

Place: 10a.42, Stockton, County Durham

Note: from NRO records

Source: #S94 Year 1888 Quarter Dec., Volume 10a page 42.

Marriage

Date: 30 OCT 1883

Place: St Peters Parish Church, Stockton on Tees, County Durham

Note: From marriage certificate

Source: #S30 Page: Filed red 26

Event

Type: Milit-Beg

Date: BEF 1915

Place: Thornaby on Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

Note: from the CD Soldiers Who Died in the Great War.

Oscars Army Number is 959902

Enlisted in Thornaby on Tees as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery. Killed in action France & Flanders.

Source: #S93 CD of Soldiers who died in Great War

Death

Date: 05 SEP 1915

Place: Flanders, France

Note: "C" Battery 53rd Bde., Royal Field Artillery

CAMBRIN CHURCHYARD EXTENTION, Pas, de Calais, France F.31

Cambrin is a village about 24 Kilometres north of Arras and about 8 Kilometres east of Bethune, on the road to La Bassee. Cambrin Churchyard Extension is on the south side of the main road, 200 metres from the Mairie. The Commonwealth plot with be found behind the church.

Source: #S95 Thornaby War Memorial, 1914-1918, Gnr O. Featherstone R.F.A.

Sources

Source S30 Title: Marriage Certificate, Name Of Person: as per use, Second Person: as per use, Registration District: various, Gro Index Ref: various

Source S93 Title: Article published in some form, Author: William Paul Featherstone

Source S94Title: Record found at National Registery Office, Detail recorded under Cit Detail, Author: William Paul Featherstone

Source S95 Title: Detail taken from Grave stone or war memorial., Record Type: Inscription, Reader: W.P Featherstone & Others

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• age 2 "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WF7W-SPZ : 26 November 2020), Oscar Featherstone in household of Joseph P Featherstone, Wales, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Durham county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.