Service Details
Name:
 MASON
Given Name:
 OVERTON TROLLOPE
Initials:
 O T
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
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Unit:
 1st/9th Bn.
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Former Regiment:
 formerly SS/115 Trooper 3rd Natal Mounted Rifles
Date of Death:
 1916-07-01
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Date of Birth:
 1877-07-20
Age:
 38
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of Louis Henry and Sarah Ann Mason, of 565, Musgrave Rd., Durban, Natal, South Africa. Born Durban. Educated at Durban High School and Hilton College, Natal. A salesman. Served as a Private with the Durban Military Reserves in the Bambatha Rebellion 1906; Served in the Afrikaner Rebellion 1914; Served as a Trooper with the 3rd S.A. Mounted Rifles (NMR) in GSWA 1915; sailed overseas and re-enlisted with the 1st/ 9th Battalion London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles). Commemorated on WWI Memorial-stained glass window (panel 2) in St Pancras Church, Camden Town, London as Overton-Mason
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Pier and Face 9 C.

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