Name
Oliver Alfred Faircloth
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/07/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/29513
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
23rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XVI. C. 5.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
The Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Albury
Pre War
Oliver Faircloth was born in late 1885 in Takeley and the son of Thomas and Anne Faircloth. His father was recorded as a pig dealer. In 1901 Oliver was a carpenter's apprentice and his father an agricultural labourer.
In 1908 he married Frances Thuragood, and by 1911 they were living at Pheasants Hall Estate in Furneux Pelham, with one son and daughter. As Oliver enlisted in Albury, presumably they moved into there before Oliver enlisted. Frances had been born there.
Oliver enlisted in Albury, which must have been a bit
traumatic in view of his family commitments, as by 1917 they had seven
children.
Wartime Service
He was in the 23rd Middlesex who were called the 2nd Football Battalion (although we have no evidence that Oliver was a footballer).
They landed in France in May 1916, but Oliver's name does not appear in their list of the dead. He is said to have been wounded at Ridgewood, and died later on the 21st June 1917.
Acknowledgments
Pat Bird, Jonty Wild
