Cemetery: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Country: Belgium
Area: Poperingewest-Vlaanderen
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Force: Royal Flying Corps
Official Number:
Unit: 6th Sqdn. Royal Flying Corps and 16th (The Queen's) Lancers.
Country of Service: British
Details: Killed whilst landing on returning from a reconnaissance as an observer. 3rd March 1916. Age 20. Son of Brig.-Gen. E. D. J. O'Brien C.B. C.B.E. late 14th Hussars and Mrs. F. H. O'Brien Buxted Rectory Buxted Sussex. Memorial tablet in St. Margaret's Buxted. Educated St. Peter's Broadstairs Winchester and Royal Military College. In Flanders from October 1914. II. A. 45.
Photograph by Chris Collier / David Milborrow