Personalities, Surname O

Oakes, Captain Richard

Son of Colonel R F Oakes, RE, his mother being daughter of Reverend T J Trevenen, of St Austell, Cornwall. Captain Oakes was born at Torquay, March 12,1876; was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; and joined the Royal Engineers, March 21, 1896; promoted Lieutenant, 1899; and Captain, 1905. He served through the Boer War, 1899-1902, being present at the Battles of Belmont and Modder River, and was twice mentioned in despatches, receiving the QSA with four clasps, and the KSA with two clasps. During the War he was employed on the railway, and since July, 1902, has been employed on the Central South African Railways, as Loco. Superintendent of the Pretoria District. Captain Oakes married, on April, 22, 1908, Mabel Caroline, daughter of Charles Trubshaw, of Derby, who died the following February.

O'Brien, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Richard Mackay

Acted as President of the Military Tribunal at Johannesburg in 1900-1. During 1901-2 he acted as Personal Assistant to the Commissioner of Police, and also served in Boer War. In 1901 he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Rand and Mounted Police.

Ogilvie,  Major G H

Rendered valuable service with the Royal Canadian Artillery.

Ogston, Dr Alexander

Born April 14, 1844, and is son of Prof. F Ogston, LLD He was educated at Aberdeen and abroad; served as a Volunteer in the Suakin Campaign in 1884-5; part of which time under the Red Cross Society (Medal and clasp, Khedive's medal); and took part in the Boer War as a Volunteer in 1890 (medal and two clasps). He served on Mr Brodrick's War Office Committee on the reorganisation of the RAMC in 1901, and was a witness before the Boer War Commission in 1902. He is an Examiner in Surgery at the RAM College, and is a Director of the North of Scotland Bank, Ltd, and author of numerous writings on medical, surgical, and other subjects. He married, first in 1867, Mary, daughter of James Hargrave, of the Hudson Bay service; and, secondly, in 1877, Isabella, daughter of James Matthews, of Springhill, Lord Provost of Aberdeen.

O'Leary,  Colonel W M'Carthy, 1st Battalion South Lancashire Fusiliers.

O'Molony, Chidley Kearnan, JP

Son of Lieutenant Henry Anthony O'Molony, was born at Cawnpore, Jan, 1845, while the first Sikh War was raging, his father being present at the battles of Moodkee, Ferozeshah, Aliwal, and Sobraon. Mr O'Molony comes of the very ancient Milesian family of Molony, of Kiltanon, Company Clare, his father was second sun of Lambert Molony, formerly a Judge in the HEIOS, and again assumed the prefix which was dropped by the head of the family after the Revolution of 1688, the family name still remaining without the prefix. His early years were spent in the Royal Navy, retiring from the service soon after obtaining a first-class certificate fur the rank of Paymaster. He served in Australia and in New Zealand during the closing periods of the Maori War in the sixties; also in the South Sea Islands, including the Samoa and Fiji groups; in the Channel Fleet, and on the West Coast of Africa. Mr O'Molony was mentioned in despatches by Colonel Kekewich for services in his Civil capacity during the siege of Kimberley by the Boers in 1899-1900. Mr O'Molony is Town Clerk and Treasurer of the important borough of Kimberley, in which capacity he has served for many years and still holds the appointment. He is a JP for the District of Kimberley, of a studious disposition, and fund of shooting. He married, in 1872, Emma, daughter of Selwyn Schofield Sugden, formerly Deputy Gov., of HM Prison at Gibraltar. Of his four children one son, Chidley Selwyn Anthony, is in the service of the ORC, another, Ernest Andrew, is in the Cape Government Railway Service, and a third, Frederick Sugden, is at present an undergraduate at the South African College, Cape Town.

O'Rorke, Reverend Benjamin Garnisa

Born at Nottingham, April 7, 1875, and is son of William Joseph O'Rorke. He was educated at Nottingham High School, and Exeter College, Oxford; was ordained Deacon in 1898, and priest in 1899 by the Bishop of Exeter. From 1898-1901 he acted as Curate of St Peter's, Tiverton, Devon; served with the South African Field Force in 1901-2 (medal and four clasps). He was stationed at Aldershot from 1902-4; Bloemfontein from 1904-5 when he was transferred to Robert's Heights, Pretoria.