HARE, Owen Stewart

Rank: 
Second Lieutenant
Unit / Base: 
Independent Companies and Special Service Battalions
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Fusiliers (City of London) Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
129412
Died : 
Monday, January 6, 1941
Died on war service
Died in the UK
Age: 
24
Local Roll of Honour: 
Second Lieutenant Owen Hare, 1st Special Service Bn., died result of a mountaineering accident on Ben Nevis during training at STC Lochailort.
Register of deaths records the Informant as Padre Basil Pitt, Army Chaplain. 
Son of the Revd. Arthur Neville Hare, M.A., and Gwendolen Lindsay Lee Hare, of Loose Vicarage.
A funeral service was conducted at St Andrews Episcopal Church, Fort William. The coffin draped with the Union Jack lay in the church overnight.  His body was then conveyed by train from Fort William for internment at his home in Maidstone, Kent.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/2.
Register of Deaths Kilmallie District.
Newspaper report in the Aberdeen Evening Express 09 January 1941.
 
Notes 
The Westminster Commando Roll of Honour shows his unit as No.2 Commando. The date of his death was during the brief period of restructuring from Commando units into Special Service Battalions which ended in February 1941. 
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 

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