6149 Private George Henry Joseph Oberhoffer
18th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
Died of wounds 18 February 1916
Buried at Bethune Military Cemetery
Private Oberhoffer was a member of the 18th (Public Schools) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He is commemorated on the war memorial at Uppingham in Leicestershire – where there is a large public school.
He was born and lived in York and enlisted at Epsom.
He attended Ampleforth School (c.1894) so could perhaps have been teaching at Uppingham 20 years later.
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george oberhoffer was organist in st. mel's cathedral, longford, co longford, from 1910 to 1913
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