Captain Robert James O'Lone

Regiment: 2nd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles
Date published: 28/01/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 12/11/1915
Age at death: 31
Cemetery: Tancrez Farm Cemetery, Hainaut, Belgium
Plot: I. G. 14.
Information: Captain Robert James O'Lone, 2nd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, was killed in action in Flanders about the 12th November, 1915, whilst engaged in reconnoitring duty. He was the third son of Quartermaster-Sergeant John O'Lone, Victoria Barracks, Belfast, and Loughries, Newtownards. Captain O'Lone was born in Belfast and had spent fourteen years' service with the 2nd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, with whom he left for the front in August, 1914.