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The War Memorial, - Western-Super-Mare
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The War Memorial for Weston-Super-Mare, Uphill, and Kewstoke is situated in Weston-Super-Mare's Grove Park.
The First World War Memorial is on an octagonal plinth and pedestal,
and is surmounted by winged victory standing on an orb with her arms outstretched.
She holds a small olive branch in her right hand. Dedicatory plaques are placed
on the sides of the pedestal.
A short distance directly behind the memorial is a wall in three sections
with the names of those killed in the Second World War placed on bronze plaques.
402 names are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War.
One Officer who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated on this memorial.
Second Lieutenant Charles Frederick Squire Osmond.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Charles Richard and Edith Emma Osmond,
of "Summerhill", The Shrubbery, Weston-super-Mare. Killed 28 November
1917. Aged 23.
Buried ST. PATRICK'S CEMETERY, LOOS.
The following comments are from Robert Coulson's Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"The 6th Battalion had just come out of the Passchendaele offensive when
2nd Lt Osmond joined them at Seques in October of 1917.
The battalion then moved to Mazingarbe and from there into the brigade support
line between Loos and Lens where they were employed in working parties doing
trench improvement work.
Whilst supervising one of these working parties 2nd Lt Charles Frederick Squire
Osmond was killed during an artillery bombardment on November 28th 1917 at
the age of 23."
The Plaque with the name of Lieutenant C S F Osmond on the War Memorial for
Weston-Super-Mare
Photo : Mark Newton of the Imperial War Museum's Register
of War Memorials
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