Lieutenant Oliver Babington Macausland

Regiment: 1st Royal Irish Rifles
Panel reference: Panel 1.
Date published: 30/07/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 09/05/1915
Age at death: 19
Cemetery: Neuve Chapelle Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Information: Lieutenant Oliver Babington Macausland, who was killed on May 9th, was the younger son of Lieutenant-Colonel Macausland, of Woodbank, Garvagh, County Derry. He was educated at Haleybury and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (prize cadet), and was gazetted in August last as Second Lieutenant on the unattached list for the Indian Army. He was, however, posted to the 4th Royal Irish Rifles, and in March gazetted to the 1st Royal Irish Rifles in France,