Harry 'Vernon' Olver
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Harry 'Vernon' Olver
Harry Olver DOB.B 18/03/1892, was born in Mill Street Bodmin, Cornwall, UKK. to Bessie Olver.
In 1909 he enlisted as a Private in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (D.C.L.I) and was sent to the 1st Battalion DCLI in Gravesend, Kent, UKK.
The next definite record of him is his marriage to Dorothy Alice Cox, daughter of Stanley Cox, at All Saint's Church Falmouth, on the 28/11/1914. The 1st Battalion D.C.L.I went to France and Mons in August 1914, so what was he doing in Falmouth, where his marriage cert' shows him as a Sergeant in The D.C.L.I, in November.
The London Gazette in 1918 records his promotion in the field to 2nd Lieutenant and award of the Military Medal, presumably in France or Flanders.
In 1939 he re-joins the Army as a 2nd Lt in The Auxillary Military Pioneer Corps, and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as dying in April 1943. He is buried in the CWGC graveyard in Berlin.
I would like help tracing his career and life between the two world wars, and any information about his wife Dorothy, who CWGC records and Phone book records for 1956-1961 suggest was living in Wimbledon S.W London.
In 1909 he enlisted as a Private in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (D.C.L.I) and was sent to the 1st Battalion DCLI in Gravesend, Kent, UKK.
The next definite record of him is his marriage to Dorothy Alice Cox, daughter of Stanley Cox, at All Saint's Church Falmouth, on the 28/11/1914. The 1st Battalion D.C.L.I went to France and Mons in August 1914, so what was he doing in Falmouth, where his marriage cert' shows him as a Sergeant in The D.C.L.I, in November.
The London Gazette in 1918 records his promotion in the field to 2nd Lieutenant and award of the Military Medal, presumably in France or Flanders.
In 1939 he re-joins the Army as a 2nd Lt in The Auxillary Military Pioneer Corps, and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as dying in April 1943. He is buried in the CWGC graveyard in Berlin.
I would like help tracing his career and life between the two world wars, and any information about his wife Dorothy, who CWGC records and Phone book records for 1956-1961 suggest was living in Wimbledon S.W London.