Lieutenant Thomas Edmund Onslow CHAMBERLAYNE (1913)

73 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Born 29 July 1893 at South Stoneham, Hampshire
Killed in action 18 August 1916, aged 23
Buried at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, France. Also commemorated on the War Cloister at Winchester College; the war memorial in Flexford Road, North Baddesley, Hampshire; on a memorial in St Matthew's Church, Otterbourne, Hampshire; and by a tree planted at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

Thomas Chamberlayne was the younger son of Tankerville James Chamberlayne, MP for Southampton, and his first wife Edith Rachel, née Ashley, of Cranbury Park, near Hursley, Hampshire.

He was educated at Twyford School and Winchester College before coming up to Merton in 1913.

He was gazetted on 6 October 1914, and was wounded at the Battle of Loos, September 1915.

He was killed in action during the Battle of Delville Wood on the Somme on 18 August 1916. His commanding officer wrote:

His charming personality and courage endeared him to all his comrades, and I, personally, mourn the loss of one of my best officers. I am sure you will always be proud to know that your son died in the execution of his duty, in which he never flinched.