In Memory Of

MASON, OVERTON TROLLOPE

Service Details
Age:
 38
Date of Birth:
 1877-07-20
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
Unit:
 1st/9th Bn.
Regiment:
 London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
Former Regiment:
 formerly SS/115 Trooper 3rd Natal Mounted Rifles
Date of Death:
 1916-07-01
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Pier and Face 9 C.
Cemetery:
 THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Somme
Country:
 France
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