Lt. Francis Melvil Otter-Barry

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monographs/tollerton1929/otterbarryp...

Lieutenant Francis Melvil Otter-Barry, U Battery, Royal Horse Artillery.
Son of Robert Melvil Barry Otter (Civil Service Exchanger Department) and Isabel Louisa Otter-Barry.
The battery deployed to South Africa for the Second Boer War, arriving in the Cape and joining the Kimberley relief force. They supported General French in the advance to Kimberley and then Bloemfontein. Practically all battery personnel and five guns were taken by the enemy at Sannah's Post on 31 Mar 1900, when a British column were surprised by a 2,000-man Boer force led by Christiaan De Wet 23 miles east of Bloemfontein. The remains of the battery took part in the initial stages of the operations for surrounding Prinsloo in Jul 1900, thereafter in the pursuit of De Wet. Towards the close of 1900 the battery was operating in the north of Orange River Colony.
Lieutenant Otter-Barry was killed in action at Vlakfontein near Dewetsdorp, Orange River Colony aged 25 years. He was buried in the Military Cemetery, Dewetsdorp.

There is no marked gravestone in the cemetery for Lieutenant Otter-Barry.
His grave is possibly one of those marked as an Unknown Soldier.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26724/page/1882/data.pdf