Lieutenant Albert Neville Oakshott

Regiment: Royal Munster Fusiliers
Attached: Royal Irish Rifles
Panel reference: Panel 138 to 14
Date published: 05/10/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 17/08/1917
Age at death: 26
Cemetery: Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information: Lieutenant Albert Neville Oakshott, Royal Munster Fusiliers, attached Royal Irish Rifles, who was killed in action on August 17th, 1917, was the only son of Dr. James A. Oakshott, Resident Medical Superintendent of the Waterford Lunatic Asylum. Prior to the war he was a medical student at Trinity College, but was one of the first to respond to the call for men, and in September 1914, joined the Royal Munster Fusiliers, being afterwards attached to the Royal Irish Rifles.