ANDREWS Oliver

  • First Name(s):
    Oliver 
  • Surname:
    ANDREWS
  • Service Number:
    S6813
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Support Services
  • Corps:
    Royal Army Ordnance Corps
  • Unit:
    12th Company
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    10th January 1919
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    24th Stationary Hospital, Kantara, Egypt
  • Place of Burial:
    Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, Grave F. 204.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

ANDREWS Oliver Is Named On These Memorials

Great Hampton Parochial School now in Hampton St Andrews C of E First School
Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial
Hampton War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Hampton St Andrew’s Church with the additional information: Worc Regt.

Further Information About ANDREWS Oliver

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral under Hampton casualties, 6813 The Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

The birth of Oliver Andrews is registered in the June Quarter 1893 under the Evesham Registration District.

1911 Census
Red Barracks, Woolwich
Oliver Andrews, age 18, carpenter, Army Ordnance Corps, born Evesham, Worcestershire

Evesham Journal and Four Shires Advertiser, 25th January 1919:
Deaths
Andrews – On the 10th inst., at 24th Stationary Hospital, Kantara, Egypt from bronchial pneumonia, Corpl. Oliver Andrews, third son of Mr. and Mrs. John Andrews, Riversleigh, Hampton, aged 26 years. “Thy will be done.”.

(Oliver was the son of John and Minnie Jane Andrews (nee Walters) who were married in 1885.)

The clock on Hampton St Andrew’s Church is a war memorial to WW1 and is inscribed with the words: War Memorial 1914-18.

The tenor bell is inscribed “also in memory of the sons of Hampton who died for the sacred cause of liberty and freedom”.  The name of Alfred Bowell is inscribed on one of the bells, his granddaughter is currently a bell ringer at the church.

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Credits: Evesham Journal and parents details researched and transcribed by Peter Stewart. Inscriptions on the church clock and the church bells courtesy of John Smith.