825 Pte Alexander Ness, 5th Bn, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

825 Private Alexander Ness of the 5th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) was killed in action on the 9th March 1915. According to Soldiers Died in The Great War he was born in Arbroath and enlisted at Carnoustie. His regimental number indcates that he joined the 5th (Territorial Force) Battalion in 1908 or 1909 and he was overseas as early as the 1st November 1914 thus qualifying - had he but known it - for the clasp to his 1914 Star.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records Alexander as A R Ness and notes that he is buried in the Rue-du-Bacquerot No 1 Military Cemetery in Laventie.

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

Lt John R Ovens, 1st Bn, Connaught Rangers

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