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Fred Osey
Rutland
Born in Winchester in 1892, in the 1911 census he is living at Andover Road, Winchester, with John Brown, an 80 year old Dubliner, and two siblings, Ada and Walter, with Ada, the eldest, listed as a step-daughter, Fred and Walter as sons. Fred is described as an assistant golf professional.

That same year he came north, marrying Margaret Rose Padwick in Stamford, Lincolnshire in September with the couple settling in Ketton, Rutland. His golfing career is a little harder to disentangle. Contemporary press reports have him at Luffenham Heath, Jackson’s Register places him at Burghley Park no later than 1915. These courses are very close so he may have served both.

In any event he was called up and attested in Ketton on 2 December 1915. The following April he was assigned to the 7th Battalion, the Leicestershire Regiment. He came back from France for a visit in March 1918 but four months later he was dead of wounds on 16 September after a long-range artillery attack made a direct hit on his company. He is buried in Five Points Cemetery, Lechelle, Pas de Calais.

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