Name
Oliver Chesterfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/02/1919
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
STREATHAM CEMETERY
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 16 Aug 1890 and baptised on 9 Aug 1891 in Fulham, London son of William James and Bertha Mabel Chesterfield. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1900-06. He became a shipping clerk and then, in 1916, Purser in the Union Castle Line. He married Mary Alice Walker in 1917 in Wandsworth and they lived in 169 Broomwood Road, Clapham Common, London.
Wartime Service
Served on transport ships carrying troops to East Africa and then when carrying repatriated POWs home across the North Sea he contracted pneumonia and died in hospital at Southampton.
Additional Information
Not in CWGC.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
