Memorials and Monuments on the Isle of Wight - Ventnor Cemetery : Charles Oliver Brooks Buckmaster

Location In Ventnor Cemetery, Ventnor, Isle of Wight Description Grave location H 114.
Headstone	Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF BEATRICE AMELIA BROOKS (SISSIE) DIED SEPT .. 1902 AGED 33 YEARS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE CHARLES BROOKS OF CHESTER AND TATTERSHALL AND OF HIS WIDOW MARIA BROOKS DIED SEPT 9TH 1912 AGED 69 YEARS ... ALSO OF CHARLES OLIVER BROOKS BUCKMASTER LIEUTT. 3RD D.C.L.I. NEPHEW AND GRANDSON OF THE ABOVE AND BELOVED SON OF GEORGE AND AMY BUCKMASTER BORN AUG 10TH 1892 DIED MARCH 16TH 1919 Further Information : Son of George Alfred Buckmaster and Amy Elizabeth Buckmaster (née Brooks). Born : 10 August 1892 Teddington, Middlesex. Census Information : 1901 : George and Amy Buckmaster, with their children including Charles aged 9, are at 16, Northwick Terrace, Parish of St Marylebone, London. George Buckmaster is a Physician. Service record : Lieutenant Charles Oliver Brooks Buckmaster, 3rd Bn., Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. September 1914 - gazetted Temp 2nd Lieut, 7th Bn D.C.L.I. 24 July 1915 - entered service in France. Casualty details : Died 16 March 1919, aged 28. CWGC record ... Newspaper reports : ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY Friday, March 21, 1919 Page 3 MILITARY FUNERAL TO-DAY (FRIDAY). - Lieut. Charles Oliver Brooks Buckmaster, aged 28, died at Belfast this week, and will be buried to-day at Ventnor Cemetery with military honours. His family have been visitors here for several years. Entry for George Buckmaster at thepeerage.com Acknowledgments : Janet Griffin for newspaper research Mick McCann for photographs ----------------------------- Page last updated : 27 February 2012 (added newspaper report)	Photos by Mick McCann, British War Memorial Project

Memorials & Monumentson the Isle of Wight - CWGC Headstones -- Ventnor Cemetery : Charles Oliver Brooks Buckmaster -

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