17227 Gnr Willie Ousey, RFA

17227 Gunner Willie Ousey of B Battery, 169th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, was killed in action on the 17th June 1916. He was 23 years old, the son of Herbert and Eliza Jane Ousey of Heyside, Oldham, and the husband of Martha Ousey of 50 Clyde Street, Watersheddings, Oldham. He is buried in Betrancourt Military Cemetery on the Somme.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission