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Second Lieutenant ROBERT SHIRLEY OSMASTON

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Flying Corps

23rd Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 24 September 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEAUVAL COMMUNAL CEMETERY

A. 18.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment and 3rd Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Francis Plumtre Beresford Osmaston and Eleanor Margaret Osmaston (nee Field), of Beacon Crag, Porthleven, Cornwall. Educated at Winchester College.
  • Personal Inscription HE IS NOT DEAD, HE LIVES HIS VIRTUE LEADS FROM HOUSE OF DARKNESS
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Buried or commemorated at

BEAUVAL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 249
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