OVERS, William John Drane

William was born 1889 in Warwick, Warwickshire to John Drane OVERS of Spring Lane Cottage, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. At St. Mary’s Church, Carisbrooke in 1915 he married Audrey Telfer LOCKE who was living in the High Street, Carisbrooke around the time of William’s death.

William was a career soldier having served in India in 1908, but died, aged 29, from ‘paralysis’ on the 19th of August 1916 & is buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery in France beneath a Recumbent Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription “THY WILL BE DONE” chosen by his wife Audrey. William rests alongside 2,846 of his First World War comrades, 2 of whom remain unidentified.

William is also remembered on the County & Carisbrooke War Memorials.

Also buried here is Lieutenant Colonel John McCRAE, author of the poem "In Flanders Fields."