Name
Owen Gough (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/12/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
12th Indian Cavalry
Attached 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches, Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATBY MEMORIAL
Egypt
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 7 Oct 1887 son of Col. Bloomfield Gough, late 9th Lancers, and his wife Maria Jean (Hunter) Gough. Educated at Haileybury College. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant to the East Lancashire Regiment on 9 Oct 1907 and promoted Lieutenant on 9 Jan 1910. Exchanged into the Indian army on 9 Dec 1911 and posted to 12th Indian Cavalry.
Wartime Service
Entered France with the British Expeditionary Force in Aug 1914 and was appointed A.D.C. to his cousin General Sir Hubert Gough. He was then ordered to rejoin his own Regiment in Mesopotamia, but drowned in the sinking of S. S. Persia, a defensively armed passenger vessel out of Tilbury, for Port Said, Aden and Bombay, torpedoed and sunk 30 Dec 1915 off Crete with the loss of 334 lives. Among the dead were 21 officers and one NCO of the United Kingdom and Indian forces.
Mentioned in despatches twice (19 Oct 1914 and 1 Jan 1916) and MC.
Additional Information
Brother of Lieutenant John Bloomfield Gough killed in action on 8 Sep 1914 at Coulommiers.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
