Biography – Captain Basil Owen Tatham

• After Charterhouse School Basil was gazetted into the 3^rd Battalion East Yorks Regiment.
• 3 years later farmed in NW Rhodesia for two years; then the Federated Malay Sates to work for the Malay Rubber Planters Ltd.
• In 1912 appointed manager of the Parit Bruas Rubber Co, and resigned his commission in the special reserve.
• When war broke out he offered his service to the British govt. and was re-gazetted to his old regiment.
• He was killed in the Second Battle of Ypres on 23^rd April 1915.

Buried

No grave. Remembered on Menin Gate Memorial Panels 21 and 31