Lieutenant John Roberts Ovens of the 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers was killed in action on the 5th November 1914. He was 25 years old and the son of John Roberts Ovens and H R Ovens of Horsehill House, Callow End, Worcester. He is buried in the Rue-du-Bacquerot No 1 Military Cemetery at Laventie.
Lt Ovens's medal index card records that he had arrived in France on the 26th September 1914 and that his father, then living at Highclere, Henfield in Sussex, had applied for his late son's 1914 Star on the 28th November 1917.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (MIC)
Officers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Named on the Galashiels War Memorial in Selkirkshire as:
LT. J. R. OVENS. CONN. RANGERS
John Roberts Ovens – age 25 – Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers.
John was educated in Edinburgh and at Heidelberg before attending the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He was commission in the Bedfordshire Regiment in May 1908, transferred to the Connaught Rangers in December 1909 and was promoted in June 1911 while serving in India.
In August 1914 the battalion was in Ferozepore, India. They sailed from Karachi as part of the Indian Corps and moved to France, landing at Marseilles on 26 September 1914.
(Source: The Scotsman 12/11/1914 p.10. London Gazette 2/6/1908 p.4070 & 10/12/1909 p.9417 & 7/7/1911 p.5060, 1911 census and Medal Roll/Card)
Born 1889 in Edinburgh. (Source:1891 census and GROS – Birth Register)
Son of the late John Roberts Ovens (died 1891) and of Henrietta (Rutherford) Ovens formerly of Ladhope House, Galashiels and of Horsehill House, Callow End, Worcester.
(Source: The Scotsman 12/11/1914 p.10 and CWGC)
Killed in Action – 5 November 1914.
Commonwealth War Grave – Rue-Du-Bacquerot No.1 Military Cemetery, Laventie, France.
Note: Medals were applied for by his mother.
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