GB Cadet 469 C.E. Oehley 1929/30 Term.

Born Somerset East, 10th March 1913.  

Son of Oliver Charles and Maybelle Oehley.  Ed, Gill College, Somerset East. Cadet Draft 1929-30 (Junior Cadet Captain).  

On leaving General Botha, Charles Edward Oehley became an apprentice in the Bullard King Line and in 1936 was awarded the Royal Human Society Honorary Testimonial for saving life in a shark-infested sea off Mauritius.  

At the beginning of the war he joined the RNR and was mentioned in dispatches in 1941.  

When serving as Lieutenant in HMS Fiona he lost his life when she was dive bombed on 18th April 1941.