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Name: MARTIN, Owen DSO (Capt.)

First Date: 1917

Profession: KAR

Book Reference: Sitrep 6, Moyse, Debrett, Web, DSO

War Service: Special List

General Information:

Sitrep 6 - Africa General Service Medal 1902-56 - Jubaland 1917-18 - This bar was awarded to 5 & 1/6 KAR and No 1 Section 9 (Murree) Mountain Bty. for service under Lt. Col. W.E.H. Barratt (KAR), Maj. E.G.M. Porcelli (DCLI), Capts J.F. Wolseley-Bourne and O. Martin (KAR), in military operations - 1917/18 - against the Northern Aulihan tribe west of the Juba river, or north or east of a line Waregta - Lake Abeleni - Lorian Swamp - El Wak - Dolo.
Web - British Perspectives on Aulihan Somali Unrest in the East Africa Protectorate, 1915-18 by George L. Simpson Jr. - September 1917 - ….. An advance party under the Canadian Captain Owen Martin, moved by land near the river while [Col.] Barrett and a second group went down the Juba by steamer hoping to mount a surprise attack. ….. [more]
Moyse - 1917 - in command Serenli.
Debrett - sometime Capt. Special List, and attached KAR; European War 1914-18 (despatches, DSO)
Gazette - 7/8/1918 - Award of DSO - Captain O Martin, 3 KAR

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