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Pte. James Williams Oman
British Army 4th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Armadale, West Lothian, Scotland
(d.19th Sep 1917)
My great-grandfather was James Williams Oman. Here is the information that I know so far:
Mrs Oman received a letter from Private William Brodie, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, and her husband's chum, to the effect that her husband had not returned after a recent engagement, and it was feared he was killed. Shortly after receiving this letter she received another letter from one of her husband’s officers to the same effect, but stating that nothing definite could be stated, since no-one had seen him fall, and it was hoped that he had been taken prisoner.
I would love to find out how he died.
James Oman was the son of Daniel and Catherine Oman, husband to Eleanor Oman (née Duncan), and father of three children: Jessie, Jean and Ellen. Before the war he worked as a lorry man with Russell Brothers, wholesale fruiterers, West Main Street, Armadale. He enlisted at Glencorse, and at first served with the Cameronians Scottish Rifles (service no: 26297). He went missing in action aged 33, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
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