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2nd Lieutenant Desmond Mansfield O'CONNOR
2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Date of birth: 26th March 1903 Date of death: 2nd September 1925 Killed on active service aged 22 Unknown
Desmond Mansfield O'Connor was born at Calcutta in India on the 26th of March 1903 the eldest son of Vincent Clarence Scott O'Connor, Indian Civil Service and author, and Muriel (nee McNeale) O'Connor later of "The Little House", Lindon in Worthing. He was educated at Chesterton Preparatory School, Seaford and at Lancing College where he was in Heads House from September 1917 to April 1921. He went on to the Royal Military College Sandhurst from where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on the 30th of August 1923. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion of his Regiment which was based at Rawalpindi and at Razmak from February 1925. He was killed by an accidental gunshot at Waziristan in Northern India. He is commemorated on a memorial in the Chapel at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

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