BEAUCHAMP LODGE 1422 - The West Kent Military Lodge

Courageous Brethren - Oliver Ingham #306

Author:
Mark Eyles-Thomas
PDProvGM West Kent, Member of Beauchamp Lodge No.1422
Date:
16 August 2023
Oliver Ingham’s Family:

Oliver Ingham was born on the 13th April 1883 in Paddington, London. He was the 5th child of seven of Robert Wood Ingham (1846-1928) and Mary Elizabeth Ingham (nee Penrose 1851-1938) who were married on the 30th December 1876 in St. Luke’s Church, Summerhill, Cork, Ireland.

Robert and Mary Ingham had seven children:

Louisa Geraldine (born 5th November 1877)

Gertrude Katherine (born 26th March 1879)

James Geoffrey Penrose (born 26th March 1879)

Robert John Fitzgerald (born 15th November 1880)

Oliver Edward Uniacke (born 13th April 1883)

Wilfred Rawdon (born 17th September 1887)

Lancelot Gordon (7th May 1889)

The family home was Sugwas Court, Stretton, Herefordshire.

Education & Career:

Unfortunately we do not have any details of Oliver Ingham’s education & career.

Service Life:

Unfortunately we do not have any details of Oliver Ingham’s service life.

Campaigns:
  • We know that Oliver Ingham was serving in India at the time of his death but unfortunately we do not have any details of his service campaigns.
Detail:

Oliver Ingham was killed at Roorkee on 12th September, 1911, by an accident when on duty, while practicing with hand grenades. He was recorded as being killed in Agra and Oudh, India.

Captain Oliver Edward Uniascke Ingham RE, Commanding No.1 Company, 1st King George’s Own (K.G.O.) Sappers and Miners.

Citations & Commemorations:

Unfortunately we do not have any details of Oliver’s service life.

Masonic:
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Oliver Ingham entry no. 306 in the Beauchamp Lodge register
Oliver Edward Uniacke Ingram entry no. 306 in the Beauchamp Lodge register
Oliver Ingham - A picture of the details surrounding the death of Oliver Ingham, entry in the Indian Daily Telegraph 13.09.1911
Oliver Ingham - Indian Daily Telegraph 13.09.1911
Oliver Ingram - A picture of the family home at Sugwas Court, Stretton, Hereford
The family home at Sugwas Court, Stretton, Hereford
A picture of Robert Ingham DSO Oliver’s elder brother who was Killed In Action at Poperinge, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
Robert Ingham DSO Oliver’s elder brother was Killed In Action at Poperinge, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
A plan of the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. Robert Ingram is laid to rest in plot XIII. A. 10.
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XIII. A. 10.
Belgium
An image of a roaring tiger with a hyper link to the Beauchamp Lodge website ‘who calls the tiger’ page

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