Monday, 23 May 2016
George Loftus MaCfaddin
George Loftus MaCfaddin
George Loftus MaCfaddin
Rank:Private
Service No:4834
Date of Death:03/06/1915
Age:18
Regiment/Service:Irish Guards 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: O. 280.
Cemetery: SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of the late Rev. T. H. MacFaddin and Ellen MacFaddin, of Kilmanagh, Co. Kilkenny.
Christopher John Coldwell
Christopher John Coldwell
Christopher John Coldwell
Rank:Private
Service No:6278
Date of Death:12/10/1915
Age:26
Regiment/Service:Irish Guards 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: XV. A. 13.
Cemetery: LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of the late Rev. and Mrs. G. H. H. Coldwell, of Biscathorpe Rectory, near Louth, Lincs.
Sunday, 22 May 2016
Rev John Gwynn
Rev John Gwynn
Rev John Gwynn
Rank:Chaplain 4th Class
Date of Death:12/10/1915
Age:44
Regiment/Service: Army Chaplains' Department attd. 1st Bn. Irish Guards
Grave Reference: II. K. 6.
Cemetery: BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
The Irish Guards In The Great War Vol. I
Edited and compiled from their diaries and papers
by Rudyard Kipling
The Irish Guards In The Great War Vol. I
Edited and compiled from their diaries and papers
by Rudyard Kipling
Edited and compiled from their diaries and papers
by Rudyard Kipling
The Huns had their revenge a few days later when the Battalion's billets and Headquarters at Poperinghe were suddenly, on April 11, shelled just as the Battal- ion was going into line at Ypres. The thing began almost with a jest. The Regimental Chaplain was tak- ing confessions, as is usual before going up, in Poper- inghe Church, when the building rocked to bursts of big stuff obviously drawing nearer. He turned to open the confessional-slide, and smelt gas — chlorine be- yond doubt. While he groped wildly for his gas- helmet in the dusk, the penitent reassured him: "It's all right, Father. I've been to Divisional Gas School to-day. That smell's off my clothes." Relieved, the Padre went on with his duties to an accompaniment of glass falling from the windows, and when he came out, found the porch filled with a small crowd who reported : "Lots of men hit in an ambulance down the road." Thither ran the Padre to meet a man crazy with terror whom a shell-burst had flung across the street, half- stripped and blackened from head to foot. He was given Absolution, became all of a sudden vehemently sick, and dropped into stupor. Next, on a stretcher, an Irish Guardsman crushed by a fallen wall, reported for the moment as "not serious." As the priest turned to go, for more wounded men were being borne up through the dusk, the lad was retaken by a violent haemorrhage. Supreme Unction at once was his need. Captain Woodhouse, R.A.M.C., the regimental doctor, appeared out of the darkness, wounded in the arm and shoulder, his uniform nearly ripped off him and very busy. He had been attending a wounded man in a house near headquarters when a shell burst at the door, mortally wounded the patient, killed one stretcher- bearer outright and seriously wounded two others. The Padre, dodging shells en route, dived into the cellars of the house where he was billeted for the Sacred Ele- ments, went back to the wayside dressing-station, found a man of the Buffs, unconscious, but evidently a Catho- lic (for he carried a scapular sewed in his tunic), an- ointed him, and — the visitation having passed like a thunder-storm — trudged into Ypres unworried by any- thing worse than casual machine-gun fire, and set him- self to find some sufficiently large sound cellar for Battalion Mass next morning. The Battalion followed a little later and went underground in Ypres — Head- quarters and a company in the Carmelite Convent, two companies in the solid brick and earth ramparts that endure to this day, and one in the cellars of the Rue de Malines.
It was the mildest of upheavals — a standard-pattern affair hardly noted by any one, but it serves to show what a priest's and a doctor's duties are when the imme- diate heavy silence after a shell-burst, that seems so astoundingly long, is cut by the outcries of wounded men, and the two hurry off together, stumbling and feeling through the dark, till the electric torch picks up some dim, veiled outline, or hideously displays the wounds on the body they seek. There is a tale of half a platoon among whom a heavy gas-shell dropped as they lay in the flank of a cutting beside a road. Their platoon-commander hurried to them, followed by the sergeant, calling out to know the extent of the damage.
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Frederick Henry Norris Lee
Frederick Henry Norris Lee
Frederick Henry Norris Lee
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:04/07/1916
Age:30
Regiment/Service:Irish Guards 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: II. A. 42.
Cemetery: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Born at Limerick.
Son of the Rev. John Theodore Norris Lee and Mary Lee, of Hatfield Vicarage, Harlow, Essex.
Joined the Tembuland Mounted Rifles, Sept., 1914, and fought against the rebels in the Orange Free State.
Transf. 1915, to the Kalahari Horse and served in the German South West African Campaign.
Noel Butler
Noel Butler
Noel Butler
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:15/09/1916
Age:28
Regiment/Service: Irish Guards Special Reserve attd. 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Sp. Mem. A. 11.
Cemetery: DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev. George Hew Butler, of Rosemary Cottage, Harting, Petersfield, Hants, and the late Florence Butler.
George Edward Savill Young
George Edward Savill Young
George Edward Savill Young
Born on 20 January 1884 in Aston Rowant, Oxon
Rank:Major
Date of Death:31/03/1917
Died from wounds recieved in action.
Regiment/Service:Irish Guards 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: III. A. 12.
Cemetery: GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev. Henry Savill Young and Rebecca Isabel Young, of Mallard's Court, Stokenchurch, High Wycombe; husband of Alison Jane Young, of Chelsworth Cottage, Warley, Essex.
Rev. Simon Stock Knapp
Rev. Simon Stock Knapp
Rev. Simon Stock Knapp
Order of Discalced Carmelites
Rank:Chaplain 3rd Class
Date of Death:01/08/1917
killed in the Salient during an attack on 31st July, while helping wounded under heavy shell fire. He was almost 60 when he died.
Regiment/Service:Army Chaplains' Department attd. 2nd Bn. Irish Guards
Awards:D S O, M C
Grave Reference: II. C. 1.
Cemetery: DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
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The Reverend Father Knapp. About 200 officers and men of the Irish Guards attended a Solemn Requiem at Whalley Catholic Church on Tuesday morning for the repose of the soul of the Reverend Father Knapp, DSC, MC. Father Knapp had acted as Chaplain to the 2nd Battalion Irish Guards since the beginning of the war and recently died of wounds received while attending the wounded. A number of guardsmen were stationed around the catafalque upon which had been placed the Chaplain's regimental cap, stole and decorations. Father Knapp was awarded the Military Cross last year and the Distinguished Service Order a little later. He was a member of the Carmelite Community and a representative from the Carmelite church at Kensington attended the service.
Jersey Evening Post of Thursday 16 August 1917
That's My Call - How a Jersey Padre Died in Flanders. DSO Laid on his Coffin. "He won the VC every time he went ministering to the lads in our advance" so wrote a Presbyterian Chaplain with the Forces in France of Father Simon Knapp, who was killed during the push on 31 July. Father Simon Knapp was perhaps the best known Padre in the British Army, he had served through the Boer War and won the Medal with seven clasps. In the present war he had already won the Military Cross, with which he was decorated by the King, and the Distinguished Service Order, but he had not yet been invested with the DSO when he died and Lord de Vesci, Adjutant of the Irish Guards, laid the decoration on his coffin on Friday. The Army's tribute to his devotion was manifest on Friday when a solemn Requiem was sung in the Carmelite Church in Kensington. A party of Irish Guards, to which Regiment he was attached as Chaplain from the commencement of the war, formed a Guard of Honour with arms reversed around the catafalque "Father Knapp is a great loss to us" said the Father Prior to the Daily Sketch on Friday "we have received letters from Ministers of every denomination and from all ranks from Privates to Generals". From the Father Prior the Daily Sketch learned of the hero's last hours. A fearless man he scorned bullets and always went with an advance to administer to the fallen, the manner in which he escaped death scores of times has been the sole topic in the trenches of the Irish Guards and others on many occasions. In this last advance he was not permitted to go with the boys, his insistence was unavailing but he did the next best thing, he just followed. He quickly came upon a fallen Guardsman and was tending him when he himself was badly wounded in the head. The only words he uttered after being struck were "That's my call", he died a few minutes later. Father Knapp was born in Jersey, his mother was Irish and his father French, he was educated at St Edmunds College and was, in his student days, a brilliant cricketer.
Jersey Evening Post of Monday 13 August 1917
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Geoffery Alfred Sutton
Geoffery Alfred Sutton
Geoffery Alfred Sutton
Rank:Lance Corporal
Service No:11686
Date of Death:27/11/1917
Age:23
Regiment/Service:Irish Guards No. 1 Coy. 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: IV. A. 15.
Cemetery: ONTARIO CEMETERY, SAINS-LES-MARQUION
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev. Edwin and Annie Hill Sutton, of Grundisburg Rectory, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Born at Eaton Bray, Dunstable.
Harold Augustus Boyd Oliver
Harold Augustus Boyd Oliver
Harold Augustus Boyd Oliver
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:26/05/1918
Age:34
Regiment/Service:Irish Guards attd. 4th Bn. Guards Machine Gun Regiment
Grave Reference: I. C. 8.
Cemetery: DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.2
Additional Information:
Served under the alias of Norman King. Youngest son of the Rev. George William and Alice Selina Oliver, of 45, St. James Square, Holland Park, London.
An actor; joined in Nov., 1914, the 85th Field Amb.
Served in France and Salonika, invalided home with malaria, afterwards receiving a Commission in the Irish Guards.
William Robert Richman
William Robert Richman
William Robert Richman
Rank:Rifleman
Service No:593679
Date of Death:07/04/1917
Age:40
Regiment/Service:London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) 1st/18th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 54.
Memorial:YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev. Robert Richman; husband of Florence Amelia Saunders (formerly Richman), of 38, Forthbridge Rd., Clapham Common, London.
Leonard Reeve Beechey
&
His Brothers
Leonard Reeve Beechey
&
His Brothers
&
His Brothers
Leonard Reeve Beechey
Rank:Rifleman
Service No:593763
Date of Death:29/12/1917
Age:36
Regiment/Service:London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) 18th Bn.
Grave Reference: P. V. H. 12B.
Cemetery:ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev P W Thomas Beechey and Amy Beechey of Lincoln.
His brothers Bernard Reeve, Charles Reeve, Frank Collett Reeve and Harold Reeve also fell.
Husband of Frances Beechey of Juniper House, Magor, Undy, Newport, Mon.
Charles Reeve Beechey
Rank:Private
Service No:58708
Date of Death:20/10/1917
Age:39
Regiment/Service:Royal Fusiliers 25th Bn.
Grave Reference: 6. E. 3.
Cemetery:DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of the late Rev P W Thomas Beechey and of Amy Beechey of 197 Wragby Rd, Lincoln.
Frank Collett Reeve Beechey
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:14/11/1916
Age:30
Regiment/Service:East Yorkshire Regiment 13th Bn.
Grave Reference: II. J. 8.
Cemetery:WARLINCOURT HALTE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAULTY
Bernard Reeve Beechey
Rank:Serjeant
Service No:13773
Date of Death:25/09/1915
Age:38
Regiment/Service:Lincolnshire Regiment 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 3.
Memorial:PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
Monday, 11 April 2016
Father William Doyle S.J.
Books & Pamphlets
Father William Doyle S.J.
Books & Pamphlets
Books & Pamphlets
Father William Doyle S.J.
by
Rev. Huge Kelly,. S.J.
Published 1928 for the Irish Messenger Series
Published 1931 for the Irish Messenger Series
Published 1931 for the Irish Messenger Series
Matthew XXII, XIV
Vocations
by
Rev. William Doyle S.J
Newsletter May 2013
Age Fifteen
Fr William Doyle SJ
Fr William Doyle SJ
Fr William Doyle SJ
Rank:Chaplain 4th Class
Date of Death:17/08/1917
Regiment/Service:Army Chaplains' Department attd. 8th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Awards: M C, Mentioned in Despatches
Panel Reference: Panel 160.
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
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General William Bernard Hickie in a letter to a friend said of Fr Doyle:
Fr Doyle was one of the best priests I have ever met, and one of the bravest men who have fought or worked out here. He did his duty, and more than his duty, most nobly, and has left a memory and a name behind him that will never be forgotten. On the day of his death, 16th August, he had worked in the front line, and even in front of that line, and appeared to know no fatigue – he never knew fear. He was killed by a shell towards the close of the day, and was buried on the Frezenberg Ridge… He was recommended for the Victoria Cross by his Commanding Officer, by his Brigadier, and by myself. Superior Authority, however, has not granted it, and as no other posthumous reward is given, his name will, I believe, be mentioned in the Commander-in-Chief’s Despatch…I can say without boasting that this is a Division of brave men; and even among these, Fr Doyle stood out.
Robert Clarke
Robert Clarke
Robert Clarke
Rank:Private
Service No:20768
Date of Death:25/10/1917
Age:19
Regiment/Service:Royal Dublin Fusiliers 9th Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 7.
Cemetery: BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY, FICHEUX
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev. S. B. Clarke, M.A. and Mary C. Clarke, of Brookfield, Cairncastle, Co. Antrim.
John Alan Harvey
John Alan Harvey
John Alan Harvey
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:20/11/1917
Age:20
Regiment/Service:Royal Dublin Fusiliers 11th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. D. 5.
Cemetery: CROISILLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Only son of the Rev. Ralph Harvey and Hannah Constance Harvey, of The Rectory, Charleville, Co. Cork.
Walter William MacGregor Quin
Walter William MacGregor Quin
Walter William MacGregor
Rank:Private
Service No:28652
Date of Death:22/06/1918
Age:21
Regiment/Service:Royal Dublin Fusiliers 8th Bn. transf. to (424724) 217th Employment Coy. Labour Corps
Grave Reference: I. B. 4.
Cemetery: TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
Additional Information:
Only son of the Rev. William Quin, and Mary Emma Quin, of Finvoy Rectory, Co. Antrim.
Brothers
Edward Henry & George Hare
Brothers
Edward Henry & George Hare
Edward Henry & George Hare
Edward Henry Hare
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:23/07/1919
Age:21
Regiment/Service:Royal Dublin Fusiliers attd. 1st Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
Panel Reference: Face 23.
Memorial: DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE)
Additional Information:
Son of the late Rev. Henry Hare and Helen Hare.
George Hare
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:27/12/1917
Age:31
Regiment/Service:Royal Dublin Fusiliers "D" Coy. 7th Bn.
Grave Reference: F. 28.
Cemetery: JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev. Henry and Helen Hare, of "Fernside," Drumcondra Rd., Dublin.
Timothy Carey
Timothy Carey
Rev. Timothy Carey
Rank:Chaplain 4th Class
Date of Death:27/02/1919
Age:41
Died from natural causes
Regiment/Service:Royal Army Chaplains' Department
Grave Reference: Near West end of Church.
Cemetery: AUDRUICQ CHURCHYARD AND EXTENSION
Additional Information:
Son of Patrick and Mary Carey, of Co. Limerick.
Isidore James O'Meehan
Isidore James O'Meehan
Rev. Isidore James O'Meehan
Rank:Chaplain 4th Class
Date of Death:19/12/1919
Age:52
Regiment/Service:Royal Army Chaplains' Department
Grave Reference: XII. E. 3.
Cemetery: AMARA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Thomas and Catherine O'Meehan (nee Dwyer). Born at Ennis, Co. Clare.
Ernest Crimmins - POW
Ernest Crimmins - POW
18 B Block
Peabody Bldgs.
Glasshouse St.
London Docks
No. 1 E
Dear Rev. Father,
Just these few lines to thank you very much for your kind letter which we received from you regarding our brother Ernest Crimmins R.M.F. We are glad to say we have heard from him in Germany and his wound was not very bad. We were pleased to hear Dear Father that he was well prepared by you before he went into Battle. We also had a letter on the same day from the Red Cross giving us the information of him, when we write to Ernest we will let him know that we had heard from yours. Hoping you will be kept safe and wishing you every success in your good work and again thanking you for your kindness.
We Remain
Yours Respectfully
Mr. & Mrs. Crimmins
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Patrick Currin - POW
Patrick Currin - POW
19 Moffat St.
Belfast
28th Dec. 1917
Dear Fr. Gleeson,
It was very kind of you to write and give all the possible information about my husband at the time he was reported missing. I appreciate your thoughtfulness very much and thank you for the great interest which you took in Private Patrick Currin.
You will be glad to learn he is not dead but a prisoner in the camp of Dulmen in Westphalia (Germany). I hope your interest will still continue.
All I can do is to pray earnestly for your welfare and his.
Yours respectfully,
(Mrs.) P. Currin
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W. Hawley - POW
W. Hawley - POW
Tralee
Dec – 30th 1917
To Rev. Father Gleeson
Catholic Chaplain
2nd Battn. R.M.Fus.
Rev. Father,
Will you please accept my sincere thanks for your kindly interest on behalf of No. 6463 Pte. W. Hawley. You will be pleased to know I have been notified to the effect that he was taken prisoner & is now in Germany.
You can Rev. Father anticipate my anxiety but your spiritual advice & kind sympathy greatly alleviated my anxiety & grief. My prayer is that God will long spare you in the priestly zeal & spiritual care you are extending to all those under your kind guidance. Should he write to me himself I will lose no time in letting you know. I hope before long that the laurels of success & victory will crown all the noble efforts of you & the brave boys in the battle they have so earnestly fought for & justly won. May God guard you from all danger & harm is the prayer of an anxious Mother.
I remain
Yours respectfully
Mrs. Mary Hawley
No. 4 Davies Place
Moyderwell
Tralee
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Joachim MacDonagh - POW
Joachim MacDonagh - POW
31 Dec. 1917
Mrs. E. McDonagh
Chapel Road
Ennistymon
Co. Clare
Ireland
My Dear Revd, Father,
Your letter gave me great consolation. May God bless you & bring you safe from the terrible war. Your name is as familiar with us here in Ennistymon as if you were one of our Priests. May God strengthen you to the work of Almighty God & may Our Blessed Lord give Peace to the Nations of the Earth.
I got a card from Joachim. He was taken prisoner & he is in Germany. 22 of Dec. I had the card he said he was well. I also had a notification from France stating he was taken prisoner on 10 of the 11 at the Battle of Epyer & is unwounded. A soldier that was in the same charge told me that he was taken prisoner by the Germans. He was binding up a wounded soldier when they were surrounded. Thank God Father he is not wounded. I was troubled but he is still living & well but the poor prisoners will not get much to eat from the Germans. We are not allowed to send parcels out there but the Ladies Committee at Ennis sends parcels.
Dear Father Gleeson I thank you a thousand times for your kindness to Joachim & for your kindness to the Munsters & may God Bless you.
Dear Father I wish you a happy peaceable & joyful New Year.
Believe me Your obedient child
Ellen McDonagh
PS
My eyes are very weak. Excuse this writing
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Meaney - POW
Meaney - POW
8 Eccles St.
off Dorset St.
Dublin
23/12/17
Dear Rev. Father,
My most grateful thanks for your beautiful consoling letter and all the trouble you have taken to ascertain the fate of my poor boy. I am most happy to be able to inform you that he is a prisoner in Germany, as he has written to me from there. He was taken on the 10th inst. the day the engagement took place and is in the best of health not having received a scratch in the encounter.
I have gone through untold agonies since I received the information he was missing but went at once to the fount of all consolation and power who sent me within the space of a few days a letter from Geneva from the Red Cross Agency there giving me an entry form an official list sent on from Berlin: Stating he was taken at Ypres unwounded and sent direct to Dulmen Camp. I had previously put in a petition to the S.H. in the Messenger under whose protection he was placed when going out again So had every confidence that this Adorable Heart would bring him safely back to me. He is all I have in the world and the best and kindest creature God ever gave to anyone. He loved you very much and spoke about you in every letter saying how zealous you were for the interests of the souls committed to your care.
I know you will be pleased to hear he is safe. I think he must have a charmed life as he was at the first landing at the Dardanelles being in the 1st Batt. and escaped with a few flesh wounds. I hope you may excuse me for sending you such a long letter. And thanking you from my heart I will pray night and day for you asking God to pour his Heavenly Benediction on you.
Most gratefully yours in the S.H.
Elizabeth Meaney
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Patrick O’Connor - POW
Patrick O’Connor - POW
12 Queen’s Street
Queenstown
28/12/17
Dear Father Gleeson,
We received your very kind & encouraging letter about my son Patrick O’Connor 7093 but previous to it we received a letter from himself from Germany. He is a prisoner & unwounded & in the best of health “Thank God”.
If I never heard from him, it would have been a consolation to me to know that he went forth on that day to battle fortified with the rites of his holy Church & may God bless & spare you to continue your holy work, for it is a consolation for those at home to know that their dear ones are not lacking in (“Spiritual Advice”), which is dear to the heart of every Roman Catholic.
I am Dear Father Yours respectfully Patrick O’Connor
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Sunday, 10 April 2016
Mgr. William Lewis Keatinge
Mgr. William Lewis Keatinge
Mgr. William Lewis Keatinge. C.M.G.,
Senior Catholic Chaplain to the Forces
Form page 20 of Catholics of the British Empire and the War
Publish 1920
Rev. Bernard Stephenson Rawlinson
Rev. Bernard Stephenson Rawlinson
Rev. Bernard Stephenson Rawlinson, O.S.B., C.M.G.
Assistant Principal Chaplain
Form page 20 of Catholics of the British Empire and the War
Publish 1920
Fr W. Joseph Carroll
Fr W. Joseph Carroll
Fr W. Joseph Carroll
Co. Limerick, Ireland.
Ordained in Maynooth, Co. Kildare on the 22nd of June 1913, seconded to Liverpool.
Chaplain to the Forces
Served in North Africa and France with the 7th Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment.
His Parish In 1919 was in Fedamore in Limerick.
He became Chaplain to the IRA.
He died in 1964.
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Fr William Fitzmaurice SJ
Fr William Fitzmaurice SJ
Fr William Fitzmaurice SJ (1877-1945) went to France in November 1915 with the Royal Irish Regiment having been made a Military Chaplain in 1914. In July 1916, he was awarded the Military Cross for “conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty”. Under heavy fire he had assisted the medical officers in tending the wounded, and for twenty-four hours after the battalion had been withdrawn, he continued to rescue the wounded who were lying out. In June 1917, he was himself wounded by shell, but he was able to return to France after a few weeks’ convalescence in England. In the same year he received a Mention in Despatches. From March to November 1918, he was a prisoner of war first at Karlsruhe then Beeskow. In a letter home during his captivity he wrote:
“Still I cannot complain. I have lots to occupy me here: one is able to do a great deal to help in the social life of the camp, and make one’s comrades’ captivity less irksome, and there is also a fair amount of spiritual work to do.”
On being repatriated he spent the remainder of his time as chaplain on home service until his demobilisation in September 1919. In 1920 he was awarded the Croix de Guerre avec palme.
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William Hawtrey White
William Hawtrey White
William Hawtrey White
Rank:Major
Date of Death:14/02/1915
Age:42
Regiment/Service:Royal Irish Regiment 1st Bn.
Awards:Mentioned in Despatches
Grave Reference: C. 9.
Cemetery: DICKEBUSCH OLD MILITARY CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of the late Rev. James and Mrs. White; husband of Muriel Ida Lumley White, of Tresillian, Raleigh, Bideford, Devon.
Born at Dublin.
Frederick Sutherland Lillie
Frederick Sutherland Lillie
Frederick Sutherland Lillie
Rank:Major
Date of Death:15/03/1915
Age:42
Regiment/Service:Royal Irish Regiment 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: A. 17.
Cemetery: DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev. J. E. S. Lillie (formerly of the Bengal Civil Service), and C. M. Lillie.
Served in the North West Frontier of India Campaign (1897-8).
Charles Reginald Fausset
Charles Reginald Fausset
Charles Reginald Fausset
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:02/05/1915
Age:36
Regiment/Service:Royal Irish Regiment 3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 33.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Second son of Ellen F. O. Fausset (nee Lane) and the late Rev. Charles Fausset, B.A., T.C.D. B.A., M.A., L.L.D., Trinity College, Dublin.
Captained T.C.D. Cricket XI. Mile and quarter-mile champion of Ireland.
Gazetted 3rd Royal Irish Regt., Oct., 1914.
Gerald John Davis White
Gerald John Davis White
Gerald John Davis White
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:05/07/1916
Age:20
Regiment/Service:Royal Irish Regiment 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 3 A.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of the Right Rev. Harry Vere White, Bishop of Limerick, and of Alice White, of The See House, Percy Square, Limerick.
Eric Colpoys Hodges
Eric Colpoys Hodges
Eric Colpoys Hodges
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:15/07/1916
Age:18
Regiment/Service:Royal Irish Regiment 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: I. E. 13.
Cemetery: HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev. Richard J. Hodges, M.A. and Mrs. M. J. Hodges, of Youghal, Co. Cork.
Walter Martyn Rennison
Walter Martyn Rennison
Walter Martyn Rennison
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:30/12/1916
Age:23
Regiment/Service:Royal Irish Regiment 3rd Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 33.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of the Rev. Chancellor Henry Rennison and Mrs. Kate Louisa Rennison. of The Rectory, Wexford.
John Edward Day
John Edward Day
John Edward Day
Rank:Captain
Date of Death:06/04/1917
Age:22
Regiment/Service:Royal Irish Regiment "A" Coy. 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. B. 60.
Cemetery: BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD
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Son of the Very Rev. Maurice W. Day and Katherine L. F. Day, Or Culloden, Bray, Co Wicklow Born at Newport, Co. Tipperary.
Franklin George Ekins
Franklin George Ekins
Franklin George Ekins
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:27/01/1919
Age:24
Regiment/Service:Royal Irish Regiment 1st Bn.
Awards:M C and Bar
Grave Reference: C. 10.
Cemetery: TOURLAVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION
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Son of the Rev. Geo. R. Ekins and Beatrice E. Ekins, of Croft Rectory, Darlington.
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Harry Prevost England Parker
Harry Prevost England Parker
Harry Prevost England Parker
Rank:Major
Date of Death:26/02/1920
Age:55
Regiment/Service:Royal Irish Regiment late 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis
Grave Reference: VI. J. 7.
Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
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Son of Mrs. Richard Parker, of 92, Campden Hill Rd., Kensington, London, and the late Rev. Richard Parker, Rector of Wickham, Hants.
Served in the Mwele Expedition, 1895-6.
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Canon Francis Gleeson - May 1884 - June 1959
Canon Francis Gleeson - May 1884 - June 1959
Francis Gleeson
Chaplain to the 2nd battalion Munster Fusiliers. Francis Gleeson was born on 28th May, 1884, in Templemore, Co. Tipperary. He was one of thirteen children. He was educated for the priesthood at Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin, and St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, where he was ordained in 1910. Father Gleeson was appointed Chaplain to St. Mary’s Home for the Blind on 27th March 1912. On, or shortly after, the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, he volunteered to serve as a military chaplain. In November of that year, Gleeson was appointed by the War Office to the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, then already in action in France. His contract with the War Office was for one year and when it expired in November 1915 he returned to Ireland. After a period of convalescence, he served, from 16th December 1915, as a curate in the newly opened Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Gloucester Street, Dublin. He re-joined the 2nd Munsters in France in May 1917 but was posted away from the ‘Dirty Shirts’ in February 1918. He completed his second two-year stint as a military chaplain with the British Army in May 1919. He returned to Dublin serving for a year in Gloucester Street before being appointed as a Curate in St. Michael’s Parish, Dun Laoghaire on 13th July, 1920. On account of his previous experience in the First World War, Father Gleeson was appointed as a Command Chaplain with the Dublin Army Command of the National Army of the Irish Free State on 12th February, 1923. He was appointed as a Curate in Bray Parish on 18th May, 1924, Parish Priest of Aughrim Parish on 20th January, 1941. Finally, he was appointed Parish Priest of St. Catherine’s, Meath Street, Dublin, on 30th August, 1944. He was elected to be a member of the Metropolitan Chapter with the title of Canon on 7th May, 1956 and he died on the 26th June, 1959. Information source - RC Diocese Dublin. This is a very sterile biography of our dear Father Gleeson from Castlelough in County Tipperary (at least that is where he is buried) this is about 2 miles across Lough Derg on the river Shannon - Father Gleesons story is a sad one. He was much loved by the men of the Munsters for his bravery in administering the sacrements to fallen on the field. Upon his return to Ireland after the war the Bishop of Cork treated him very harshly for his association with the British army and would send him to the most difficult parishes in Cork and Kerry. It is well known in Ireland that the bishop blackened his name - not only with his superiors but also with his congregations. Here was a chaplain who served long with a predominantly Catholic infantry battalion - who became emotionally involved with its welfare. When that battalion sustained repeated heavy casualties, the mental anguish of this chaplain was very great. He was, after all, closer to the dying and the dead than any other person in the unit, the medical officer being spared the burial. After the battle of Loos, where the 2nd Munsters were again annihilated, Fr. Gleeson wrote to the senior chaplain (RC) asking to be relieved.
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The Royal Munster Fusiliers receiving absolution from their chaplain, Father Francis Gleeson prior to the battle
The Royal Munster Fusiliers receiving absolution from their chaplain, Father Francis Gleeson prior to the battle
by Fortunino Matania
A sergeant-major said of Fr. Gleeson:
He said Mass for us on Christmas Day, actually in the firing line. Where he had his little alter was peppered with bullets. He is a grand priest and knows no fear. He is never finished doing all in his power for everyone, even those who are not of the same religion. …Nothing gives him greater pleasure than saying Mass in the open, in cold and wet, or hearing confessions in some old barn that has been half blown away by German shell fire.
Before going into battle at Rue du Bois on 9 May 1915, when it again suffered fearful casualties, the battalion received the last absolution from Fr Gleeson and sang the Te Deum. Published in the Christmas edition of The Sphere, Mantania’s painting of the incident soon became one of the most famous pictures of the war. When it was reproduced a year later in the Weekly Freeman it was framed and hung on the walls of many private homes, especially in Munster. Private soldiers from Limerick recorded how, during the battle, Fr Gleeson ‘stuck to his post, attending to the wounded and dying Munsters…shells dropping all around him’.
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THE MUNSTERS AT RUE DU BOIS
THE MUNSTERS AT RUE DU BOIS
"She, beyond shelter or station,
She beyond limit or bar,
Urges to slumberless speed
Armies that famish and bleed,
Giving their lives for her seed.
That their dust may re-build her a Nation,
That their souls may re-light her a star."
A. C. Swinburne.
About a mile from the market-place of Neuve Chapelle, and above Festubert and Givenchy, is the Rue du Bois, a street lying east and west, some 500 yards behind the British trenches. Last year the bells of Neuve Chapelle sent the sound swinging over the little distance, but the pounding of the shells.
of friend and enemy alike, silenced the bells, when war let loose the great stream of human blood and human tears. The Rue was once a thoroughfare for early carts and other traffic going towards the Distillery on the Violaines Road, and had been built according to the Roman system—one straight line of houses all built together. Along this street the carts used to pass, coming up from Richebourg St. Vaast and Richebourg l'Avoue, and going on by the road that leads to distant Lille. The Rue du Bois is now a sad place, for the chimney-stacks have fallen, and the roofs and walls gape desolately. Changed times for France since the early carts went by, and a changed world for many of us. On the evening of Saturday, May 8th, 1915, the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers, commanded by Colonel Victor Rickard, were on their way to take.
their place in the trenches in front of Rue du Bois ; with them was Father Francis Gleeson, whose name is known throughout the whole of Munster. It was a clear spring evening, dark under a green sky, the orchards through the country heavy with blossom, their scent recalling manifold recollections. The poplar trees, many of them shellscarred and broken, were very still in the windless twilight, dark spires against the clear clean sky. At the entrance to the Rue du Bois there stands a broken shrine, and within the shrine is a crucifix.
When the Munsters came up the road, Colonel Rickard halted the Battalion. The men were ranged in three sides of a square, their green flags, embroidered with the Irish harp and the word " Munster," a gift from Lady Gordon, placed before each Company. Father Gleeson mounted, Colonel Rickard and Captain Filgate, the Adjutant on their chargers, were in the centre, and in that wonderful twilight Father Gleeson gave a General Absolution. To some present, very certainly, the "vitam aeternam" was intensely and beautifully manifest, the day-spring of Eternity very near." Miseratur vestri Omnipotens Deus, et dimissis peccatis vestris, perducat vos ad vitam aeternam." The whole Regiment with their heads bared, sang the Te Deum, the great thanksgiving,the "Sursum Corda " of all the earth.
There are many journeys and many stopping-places in the strange pilgrimage we call life, but there is no other such journey in the world as the journey up a road on the eve of battle, and no stopping-place more holy than a wayside shrine.
The men who prayed there were, very few of them, the men of the original Battalion. Gaps had been filled again and again, and most of the Munsters who fought next day were newly come from Ireland and new to the life. Lads from Kerry and Cork, who, a year before, had never dreamed of marching in the ranks of the British Army.
The Regiment moved on, and darkness fell as the skirl of the Irish pipes broke out, playing a marching tune. The Munsters were wild with enthusiasm, they were strong with the invincible strength of faith and high hope, for they had with them the vital conviction of success, the inspiration that scorns danger—which is the lasting heritage of the Irish ; theirs still and theirs to remain when great armaments and armies and empires shall be swept away, because it is immovable as the eternal stars.
On the morning of May the 9th, 1915, the Third Infantry Brigade were ordered to attack. Their right was on the Cinder Track, and their left on the Orchard Redoubt. The Munster Fusiliers were the assaulting Battalion, with the 4th Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; the Gloucesters and South Wales Borderers in reserve.
The morning of the 9th broke incredibly still and fair, touching the land with the strange suggestion of unreality, which is part of the mystery of early dawn ; and the Rue du Bois, for all its desolation, was for a moment beautiful with the spaciousness of peace. Night dews were still in the air, and the first coming of the sun was not far distant when sustained thunder pervaded the whole world. The bombardment of the enemy's trenches had begun, and the noise grew to the dimensions of intensest force, crashing and roaring with the rage of a storm at sea. The object of the bombardment was to cut gaps in the barbed wire in front of the Battahon, and for seven minutes the torrent of sound tore and rent the air. Only for thirty minutes the guns spoke, and on the amazed instant of silence Colonel Rickard gave the order for attack. Cheering wildly the men followed him over the breastworks, with a rush that swept them across the open under deadly fire to a little ditch, some half-way between the British and German lines. There they were to lie down and take cover while the Artillery again bombarded, only continuing the rush when the fire lifted.
As they crossed the first hundred and fifty yards to the given point. Colonel Rickard fell, killed by a bullet that struck the spinal column of the neck. No one who knew him could ever doubt that he would have chosen any other end than to die leading the Regiment he so loved all his life ; he gained the perfect death that takes no thought of self, and which, in all truth, is swallowed up in victory.
Captain Campbell Dick, leading with magnificent dash, carried on B Company with 5 and 6 Platoons, led to admiration by Lieutenant Price and Lieutenant Horsfall ; by this time the close-range fire of the Germans poured like rain from thunder-clouds. Caring nothing at all for the enemy's bullets. Captain Dick swept on, followed by his men, his great buoyant spirit lifted to the very heights by the joy of the charge. If life may truly be measured by its intensity, the Munsters lived well and dangerously in those moments. Captain Dick, gifted, as has been said of another very brave officer, " with a certain devilry of spirit" and " a ceaseless militancy in life and death," was well known to be a man of unshaken nerve and flame-like attributes ; as he reached the second hne of the German trenches he stood on the enemy's breastworks, quite indifferent to the danger which lay on every side, and standing as he often stood cheering a winner in the old days in Ireland, he waved his cap and shouted to his men, " Come on, the Munsters !" A moment after, he fell into the German trenches, and the Company he commanded dashed onwards with Lieutenant Price and Lieutenant Horsfall, and were enveloped in the very heart of the grey enemy forces. Lieutenant Carrigan and Lieutenant Harcourt brought the machine guns over the parapet of the German first line, and there faced an enfilading fire that beat and battered upon the men, who, without wavering, held grimly to the trenches ; a little further up the line Lieutenant Sealy King died most gallantly as he dashed to a renewed attack.
The Regiments on the left and right being unable to get near the line where the Munsters were fighting, the position became that of a forlorn hope ; but the fighting stuff of which the Munster Fusiliers are made, does not break. Their dash and coolness drew words of admiration from the Artillery officers who were observing, and the men, almost entirely without officers or N.C.O.'s, rallied and fought with unabated courage.
Only 300 yards away was the safety of the British trenches, but between that point and where the Battalion fought the gulf might as well have been as wide as eternity.
The hail of shells and the rain of bullets never ceased, and as the time went on and the Battalion was unsupported. Major Gorham, then in command and wounded in the arm, sent a message back that the assault was held up by the great breaking superiority of the enemy's forces.
Once again the heavy guns boomed out, pitching shell after shell into the German lines, and under cover of this protective fire the Battalion withdrew. Incidents of great self-sacrifice were many during the retirement. Sergeant Gannon carried one officer and four wounded comrades out under fire; Private Barry, himself mortally wounded, and only a slight slip of a boy from Cork, brought in Captain Hawkes, one of the biggest officers in the Battalion. Captain Hawkes was severely wounded in three places, and could not move, and as he carried his officer to safety, Private Barry fell, dying heroically, his death a tribute to the feeling that so strongly existed between officers and men. So the Munsters came back after their day's work ; they formed up again in the Rue du Bois, numbering 200 men and three officers. It seems almost superfluous to make any further comment.
In a garden near a place called Windy Corner, Colonel Rickard is buried at the head of a line of graves. As Father Gleeson wrote:
"The Munsters who gave their lives so heroically and cheerfully, have, even in death, at their head, their kindly and loving leader, who so much inspired them and cheered us all."
Honest and brave soldiers, the world must go on without you, and those who are left to mourn you must face what remains in life with a little of your own fine spirit. But your lives and your great deaths have enriched the story of the world, the story of Ireland and the story of the Battalion, even though, through all the voices and all the sounds of life, we listen for your voices, and will listen still in vain.
From page 32 to 44 of The Story of the Munsters, published 1918 - Free book download
C Barry
C Barry
C Barry
Rank:Private
Service No:10142
Date of Death:09/05/1915
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers 2nd Bn.
Awards: D C M
Grave Reference: XXIX. A. 61.
Cemetery: CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
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Son of Mrs. Mary Barry, of 7, Railway Place, Cork.
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HEROIC CORK BOY – PRIVATE CHRISTY BARRY’S DEATH – LETTER FROM FR. GLEESON – TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO BRAVE DEED
Rev. Father Francis A. Gleeson, chaplain to the Munsters at the front, writes as follows to Mrs. Barry, 89 Douglas Street, Cork, mother of Private Christy Barry, 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers, who was killed in action on May 9th ...... ‘2nd June, 1915 –
Dear Mrs. Barry - By this time you will have heard of the death of your heroic boy in the attack of Sunday, 9th May, 1915.
The greatest consolation I can offer you is to tell you that your son was well prepared for death, as the battalion received Holy Communion the Sunday before the battle and were given absolution a few hours before the terrible ordeal.
You need have no worry regarding your son’s soul, for he was careful and zealous about it, and was one of the best boys in the battalion.
I knew him quite well, and to know him was to love him, for he was one of the most cheerful and good-natured young fellows I have met.
I buried his body in a little cemetery beside the trenches, and several comrades lie beside him.
A little cross marks his grave. He has made an immortal name for the gallantry and unselfishness with which he rescued the body of Captain Hawkes.
He had not the faintest idea of what fear was. There could not be greater heroism displayed than that shown by your son.
You may well feel proud of being the mother of such a son. He has, by his thrilling acts of bravery, imprinted his name on all our hearts, and no honour, no matter how high, could be at all adequate to mark the greatness of his action.
Out of a battalion of cheerful and daring heroes, Barry stands out supreme and admired of all, and his glorious death has inspired it. He was shot three times during his rescue of Captain Hawkes - still, in spite of loss of blood and a tornado of bullets and shells, he held on to his task till he got the captain in safety over the parapets.
Having done this, he fell down exhausted and mortally wounded, into the British lines, where he died a saintly and easy death a few hours afterwards.
You will not grudge the good God such a good boy, and will be compensated for his death by the greatness and glory which marked it.
On his pure and saintly soul may Jesus have mercy.
Yours sincerely, Francis A. Gleeson, Chaplain, Munsters.
Cork Examiner 9/6/1915
Father Francis A. Gleeson
Father Francis A. Gleeson
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Carol Edward Vere Awdry
Carol Edward Vere Awdry
Carol Edward Vere Awdry
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:27/08/1914
Age:20
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers "C" Coy. 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. 3.
Cemetery: ETREUX BRITISH CEMETERY
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Son of the Rev. Vere Awdry and Mary Louisa Awdry (nee Man), of Journey's End, Box, Wilts. Born at Broad Hinton, Wilts.
Francis William Durand
Francis William Durand
Francis William Durand
Rank:Captain
Date of Death:22/12/1914
Age:39
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers 3rd Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 43 and 44.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL
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Son of the late Rev. Havilland Durand (Vicar of Earley, Berks.), and Mrs. Durand, of Guernsey; husband of Geraldine Durand (nee Hawtrey), of 52, New St., Henley-on-Thames. Seconded under the Foreign Office to the Zanzibar Government, 1903-1913. Served in Maubeleland, 1896, and Mashonaland, 1897, Brilliant Star of Zanzibar 3rd Class, Order of El Aliyeh 4th Class.
Osborne George De Courc Baldwin
Osborne George De Courc Baldwin
Osborne George De Courc Baldwin
Rank:Captain
Date of Death:26/01/1916
Age:30
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers "C" Coy. 8th Bn.
Grave Reference: 101.
Cemetery: MAZINGARBE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Son of the late Rev. W. H. De Courcy Baldwin and of Mary Osborne De Courcy Baldwin, of "Mickledown," Ewell, Surrey. Served as Lt. in 3rd Bn. West Yorkshire Regt. from 1906 to 1911. Resigned and appointed to Royal Irish Constabulary 1911. District Inspector of Charleville, Co. Cork, until Nov., 1914.
Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:23/08/1916
Age:23
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers 9th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: I. D. 46.
Cemetery: FLATIRON COPSE CEMETERY, MAMETZ
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Son of the Rev. Francis and Mrs. Josephine Moran, of Grange House, Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone.
Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin.
Percy Alexander Crone
Percy Alexander Crone
Percy Alexander Crone
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:08/09/1916
Age: 22
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers 4th Bn. attd. 7th Bn.
Memorial: DOIRAN MEMORIAL
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Son of the Rev. Alexander Crone, B.A., and Emily Laura Crone, of Clifton, Strand, Youghal, Co. Cork.
Maurice Fletcher
Maurice Fletcher
Maurice Fletcher
Rank:Captain
Date of Death:09/09/1916
Age:31
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers "C" Coy. 9th Bn.
Awards: M C
Grave Reference: C. 18.
Cemetery: MILLENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Son of Mrs. S. H. Fletcher, of "Melrose," Wokingham, Berks., and the late Rev. W. H. Fletcher, Rector of Swalecliffe, Kent.
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Charles St. John Beatty
Charles St. John Beatty
Charles St. John Beatty
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:16/09/1916
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers 4th Bn. attd. 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: II. E. 13.
Cemetery: LA NEUVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY, CORBIE
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Son of the Rev. Edmund W. Beatty and Eva Meredith Beatty, of Corkby Rectory, Whitegate, Co. Cork.
Arthur Dominic Wilson
Arthur Dominic Wilson
Arthur Dominic Wilson
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:10/09/1916
Age:21
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: II. C. 53.
Cemetery: LA NEUVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY, CORBIE
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Son of the Rev. Canon and Mrs. Arthur Wilson, of Dunmanway. Born at Doughcloyne, Co. Cork.
Volunteered in June, 1915, when a student in Trinity College, Dublin, intending to take Holy Orders.
John Hamilton Montford Redding
John Hamilton Montford Redding
John Hamilton Montford Redding
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:02/03/1917
Age:19
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers attd. 1st Garrison Bn. Royal Irish Regiment
Grave Reference: H. 56.
Cemetery: CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
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Son of Jane Montford Redding, of Dublin, and the late Rev. R. B. Redding.
Enlisted in 1914. Also served at Gallipoli.
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Thomas Roche
Thomas Roche
Thomas Roche
Rank:Captain
Date of Death:26/09/1919
Regiment/Service:Royal Munster Fusiliers 2nd Bn.
Awards:M C
Memorial: HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL, SOUTHAMPTON
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Son of the late Very Rev. John H. Roche.
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Douglas James Baker
Douglas James Baker
Douglas James Baker
Rank:Second Lieutenant
Date of Death:28/04/1917
Age:27
Regiment/Service:Northumberland Fusiliers 24th (Tyneside Irish) Bn.
Grave Reference: II. E. 48.
Cemetery: BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
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Son of the Rev. Walter Thomas Baker, of 11, St. Andrew's Rd., South, St. Anne's-on-Sea, Lancs. Born at Selby, Yorks.
The sons of a further 27 preachers were killed while serving with regiments of the Northumberland Fusiliers
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