Second Lieutenant Harry Charles Oulton

Regiment: Leinster Regiment
Date published: 04/05/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 12/04/1917
Age at death: 33
Cemetery: Lievin Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France
Plot: IV. B. 5.
Information: Second Lieutenant Harry Charles Oulton, Leinster Regiment, who was killed in action on April 12, 1917, was the second son of Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Oulton, of 41 Stephen's Green, Dublin. He had seen much active service, having volunteered when a schoolboy of 16 for the South African campaign, in 1901 (Queen's medal), and subsequently served in the Zulu Rising in 1906, and assisted in the capture of Dinizulu. On the outbreak of war he served in German S.W. Africa, and coming home in 1915 he enlisted in the K.R.R.C., and went to France, and later to Salonika. He received his commission in the Leinsters in November, 1916, and went back to France in January. His Colonel writes :— “He was a fine soldier, and a born leader of men. He died at the head of his men leading a difficult assault... I shall miss him... I can ill spare officers like him.” His other brothers are also serving— Lieut. R. H. Oulton, R.A.M.C., and J. F. S. Oulton, Ceylon Rifles, and Captain C. C. Oulton, Adjutant, R.D.F., who was severely wounded at Ypres in 1915.