British Army Veterinary Corps
Thomas Augustine O'BRIEN
Lieutenant
Died 6 October 1918 · Aged 23
Record note: Birth-date note: the supplied facts give 28 July 1895, while the supplied biography gives 28 August 1895. An original birth or service record needs to be checked before selecting the month.
His story
Lieutenant Thomas Augustine O’Brien was born in Limerick, Ireland, on 28 August 1895.
He graduated from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Dublin in December 1917 and immediately joined the Army Veterinary Corps. He was appointed to the Curragh on 14 January 1918 and embarked for India on 21 March 1918.
He died from Influenza and Pneumonia on 6 October 1918 in Ajmere, North-western India.
He is buried in the Roman Catholic section of the Ajmer New Cemetery.
Lieutenant O’Brien’s death notice appeared in The Veterinary Record of 22 February 1919.
Photographs and documents
Before the war
- Nationality
- British
- Date of Birth
- 28 July 1895
- Place of Birth
- Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland
- Veterinary College and Date of Graduation
- Dublin - December 1917
Military service
- Last Rank
- Lieutenant
- Regiment/Service
- British Army Veterinary Corps
- First Theatre of War
- India 1918
Medals and commemoration
- Name on RCVS Honour Board
- Yes
- Name In Officers who died in Great War
- Yes
- Medals and Awards
- British War Medal 1914-1918; Victory Medal
Death and burial
- Date of Death
- 6 October 1918
- Age at Death
- 23
- Place of Death
- Ajmere, India
- Cause of Death
- Influenza and Pneumonia
- Cemetery
- Ajmer New Cemetery
- Location
- Ajmer, India
- Grave Reference
- RC Plot Row B Grave 17
- Commonwealth War Grave
- Yes - Private Headstone
Sources and further reading
- CWGC casualty and commemoration record
- The Veterinary Record, 22 February 1919 — cited in the earlier biography
Cite this biography
Graham Hodgkins and Pete Matthews, “Thomas Augustine O'Brien”, Veterinary Virtual War Memorial, https://vetsremembered.org/people/thomas_obrien/.
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