O Carroll, M

Name on memorial: O Carroll, M
Memorial panel: Right
Full name: Michael O Carroll
Rank: Private
Service details: Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
Age at death: 19
Date of death: 17/10/1956
Birth place: Banbury
Parents: John P and Olive B M O'Carroll
Mother's maiden name: Redford
Parents' marriage details: Banbury Sep-31
Wife: unknown
Wife's maiden name: unknown
Marriage details: unknown
Cemetery: BRITISH MILITARY CEMETERY CYPRUS
Additional information:
Source: British Cyprus Memorial Trust
Pte Michael O'CARROLL is one of the 371 British Servicemen who died on active service during the four-year Cyprus Emergency April 1 1955 to April 18 1959, and whose name is among those remembered with honour on the British Cyprus Memorial. Serving with the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry he was accidentally shot dead on guard duty on October 17 1956. Aged 19 from Banbury Oxon he is buried at Wayne’s Keep, the British military cemetery in Cyprus, Plot 11 Row A Grave 3.
Remembered always by his brother John and sister Margaret.

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