Service Details
Name:
 STAPLES
Given Name:
 OSRIC OSMOND
Initials:
 O O
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Scots Fusiliers
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Unit:
 6th Bn.
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Former Regiment:
 formerly Sgt. 1612 King Edwards Horse
Date of Death:
 1915-09-25
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Date of Birth:
 1892-09-01
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of Albert Warner and Sarah Susannah Staples, of Springfontein, Orange Free State. A Rhodes Scholar (Rhodesia 1911) at Oxford, formerly Serjt. in King Edward's Horse. His brother also died in service. On St. George's College War Memorial, Harare, Zimbabwe
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 LOOS MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 46 to 49.

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