Second Lieutenant Edward Bertram OSBORNE

Second Lieutenant Edward Bertram OSBORNE{gallery}2nd Lt E B Osborne{/gallery}2nd/5th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Formerly Pte 10251 London Regiment
Died of wounds whilst a POW at Le Cateau German Military Hospital, France and Flanders, 1st April 1918, aged 34

• Buried: Le Cateau Military Cemetery, Nord, France. Grave III.D.1
  
• Awarded British War and Victory Medals
  
• Son of Christie, a tea merchant, and Margaret Osborne of 42 Ivy Road, Handsworth
• Husband of Mildred Annie Osborne [nee Price]. Married Oct Qtr 1912 at Newmarket 
• NNWFHS Memorial: Atherstone Grammar School
• Other Memorials, Soham, Cambs; Worthing, Sussex
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for 2nd Lt Osborne
• NNWFHS Atherstone Grammar School War Memorial Page
• Soham Memorial Page
• Le Cateau Military Cemetery
• East Lancashire Regiment

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born c1884 at Belfast
  
• Attended Atherstone Grammar School
• Attended Leeds Agricultural College and graduated with Royal Agricultural Society National Diploma in 1904
  
• Employed as science master at Soham School, Cambs [1905]
  
• Employed as an assistant schoolmaster at Brewood Grammar School [1911]
• Lived at Grammar School, Brewood, Stafford [1911]
• Commissioned (Gazetted) 26 Sep 1917