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