He was Irish in both 'Darby O'Gill' & 'The Longest Day'. In both films he adopted a bit of a twang.
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August 26th
1798
Gen Humbert marched from Ballina to Castlebar.
1913
The Great Dublin Lockout began.
1914
The battle of Le Cateau took place during the retreat from Mons.
I Corps of the BEF reached Le Cateau on the night of August 25th. Field Marshal French ordered the retreat to continue and that no stand was to be made at Le Cateau. I Corps situation was, however, critical. Because of the proximity of the enemy, the cavalry would be unable to cover the withdrawal in the morning. The OC of 3rd Division reported his men exhausted, 7th Bde only reaching Le Cateau at 0200 and 2nd Royal Irish Rifles at 0400. Furthermore a gap was opening with I Corps further north and behind II Corps. Smith-Dorrien ignored orders and decided to fight.
He placed his three divisions on the high ground south of the Le Cateau-Cambrai road. The 5th Div held the ground around Le Cateau, the third a line from Troiselles through Audencourt to Caudry and the 4th west of Caudry itself. In the 3rd Div which had fought at La Bascule and which contained the 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt as part of 8th Bde and the 2nd Bn Royal Irish Rifles, 7th Bde held the Caudry area, 8th Audencourt and 9th Troiselles.
Von Kluck decided on a frontal attack with his IV Corps while his III Corps probed the British right to try and out flank them. He was hoping for a breakthrough that would split the British Cors and leave it open to destruction. After dawn on the 26th August the Germans entered Le Cateau meeting the KOYLI and the Suffolk Regts of 5th Div. After a short fight the British withdrew out of the town to the high ground behind it. On the left, German Cavalry attacked 4th Division and were beaten back. By mid morning the Germans had found the British right and were on the high ground east of the River Selle. Now the frontal attack commenced on I Corps and by 1300 the 5th Div was being assaulted by three German divisions. Smith-Dorrien decided to disengage and the order to withdraw was issued at 1340 hrs. Communications broke down badly however and while 5th Division had the order at 1400 and most forward units by 1500, 2nd KOYLI and 2nd Suffolks never received the order, held their ground and were destroyed by the Germans.Meanwhile in 8th Bde, 1st Bn Gordon Highlanders and 2nd Bn Royal Scots who we met at Obourg were dug in north of Audencourt with 2nd Bn Royal Scots and 4th Bn Middlesex Regt in reserve. The brigade Stood To from 0300 to 0500. Later in the morning the Middlesex was sent to dig in East of Audencourt and the Royal Irish was split up. C and D Coys were sent under command of Maj St. Leger to extend the line to the west of the Gordon Highlanders towards Caudry. C Coy was located in a railway cutting with one Platoon of D Coy and the remainder of D Coy under Maj Panter-Downes dug in on the flank facing Caudry. B Coy was attached to 3rd Bn the Worcestershire Regt of 7th Bde under Maj Daniell to defend Caudry itself while A Coy dug in astride the road SW of Audencourt in reserve. At 1000 the CO of 2nd Royal Irish was wounded by shellfire. He remained in command of the battalion on a stretcher.
In Caudry the bombardment continued fiercely until 1400 at which time Maj Daniell withdrew B Coy from Caudry when 7th Bde began it’s withdrawal. He made his way back to Audencourt where he rejoined the Royal Irish as it’s Bde began it’s withdrawal.Back in 7th Bde, Brigadier McCracken was concussed by shell-fire and replaced by the CO of Royal Irish Rifles, Lt-Col Bird.In 3rd Div communications again failed and the Gordons, the two companies of the Royal Irish on their left plus a company of the Royal Scots never got the withdrawal order. At 1830 St Leger’s two companies began to move left, seeking other units in Caudry. They found Panter-Downes dying of wounds with several of his men where they had fought the German advance from Caudry until they were surrounded.
By Midnight on August 26th, the remnants of the Royal Irish were in Beaurevoir, about ten miles south-west of Le Cateau. The retreat continued until September 5th.
2nd Bn Connaught Rangers fought a rearguard action at Le Grand Fayt.
The Battle of Tannenberg was fought on the Eastern Front.
1940
The Luftwaffe bombed Campile, Co. Wexford; three women were killed.
Died
1914
Killed in action with 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt on the Western Front
8366 Pte James Collins. Waterford City.
8285 Pte James Daniels. Portlaw, Co. Waterford.
2nd Bn Royal Irish Rifles
9995 Rifleman Thomas Chittick, Ardmore, Co. Waterford.
1915
4453 PteJeremiah Daniels, 5th Bn Connaught Rangers. Killed in action, Gallipoli. He was from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
1918
4497 Pte William Foley, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died in Egypt.
1951
PFC John Canty from Co. Kerry. Died in Korea serving with the 7th Inf Div, US Army.
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August 27th
1914
At Etreux, 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers were virtually wiped out in a rearguard action. Among the dead were two brothers, Charles and George Roberts.
1916
Italy declared war on Germany.
1939
Germany demanded the port of Danzig and the Danzig corridor from Poland.
1979
Lord Louis Mountbatten (age 79)was murdered at Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo. The IRA planted a bomb on his fishing boat. The bomb also killed his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, 15-year-old John Maxwell and 83-year-old Lady Brabourne,. The murderer, Thomas McMahon was released from prison in 1998 as part of the Northern Ireland peace agreement.
At Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland, the IRA killed 18 British soldiers with 2 roadside bombs. The first targeted a truck in a convoy killing 6 members of 2nd Bn The Parachute Regt. The remainder of the soldiers from the convoy took up a defensive position in a large gateway where the IRA had planted another bomb.
Died
1916
4722 L/Cpl Matthew Butler, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt, Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Waterford.
1917
59799 Gnr Michael Dalton Royal Artillery, Killed in action on the Western Front.
198124 Cpl Frederick Mc Auliffe. Royal Engineers. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford.
1951
Pte Phillip Lynch from Co.Galway. Died in Korea serving with the 2nd Inf Div, US Army.Last edited by Groundhog; 15 September 2005, 23:41.sigpic
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August 28th
1879
Cetewayo , King of the Zulus, was captured by the British at the end of the Zulu war.
1914
The Battle of Heligoland Bight was the Great War’s first naval battle. Four German ships were sunk.
In Flanders, the BEF withdrawal reached Noyon, Chauny and La Fere.
Died
1918
9090 L/Sgt Charles Rooker Dungarvan Died of wounds Western Front 1st Bn Irish Guardssigpic
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August 29th
70AD
The Romans entered Jerusalem.
1914
The Battle of Tannenberg ended in defeat for Russia. 35,000 Russians were killed, and 90,000 taken prisoner. German losses were 10,000 to 14,000. The Russian Commander, Samsonov, committed suicide.
Gen Joffre ordered the French Fifth Army to attack the left flank of the German First Army at Guise, Hoping to relieve German pressure on the BEF at Le Cateau. It was a bold move by the French who were under pressure from the Germans themselves.
1918
British troops recapture Bapaume
1975
Eamon de Valera died, aged 92. He fought in the 1916 Rising, was instrumental in starting the Civil War and founded Fianna Fáil.
Died
1914
5248 L/Cpl William Ryan, 20th Hussars. He was from From Waterford City.
1918
74376 Driver Thomas O'Keeffe from Portlaw, Co. Waterford. He was Killed in action on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery.
1950
Fr Patrick O’Reilly, a missionary priest from Co. Westmeath. Executed by North Korean soldiers in Mukho, South Korea.
1987
Cpl George Bolger from Co. Limerick died in Lebanon serving with 61st Irishbatt. On a personal note I was in the same platoon.Last edited by Groundhog; 29 August 2004, 08:44.sigpic
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August 30th
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1917
3373 Gnr John Neill, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died of wounds on the Western Front. He was from Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford.
1961
Cpl Luke Kelly died in the Congo.sigpic
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August 31st
1916
Sir Roger Casement was executed in Pentonville prison, London.
British used gas in attacks at Arras and Armentieres.
The 16th (Irish) Division joined the 4th Army on the Somme.
1918
Mont St Quentin was captured from the Germans.
Died
1915
377 Cpl Francis Mc Garry, 5th Bn Connaught Rangers. Died in Gallipoli. He was from Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
109 Pte James Sullivan, 5th Bn Royal Irish Regt. Killed in action in Gallipoli. He was from Waterford City.
1916
Killed in action Western Front serving with 2nd Bn Leinster Regt.
9500 Sgt Nicholas Cassidy. Clonmel.
6674 Pte Patrick Kelly. Clonmel.
Both men are commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
1917
37061 Bombardier William Walker. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Waterford city.
1918
41966 Gnr John Hassett, 305th Siege Bty, Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was the son of Peter and Mary Hassett, 12, Storyes Lane, Old Bridge, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. His brother, Thomas, was seriously wounded in 1916 and medically discharged later that year.Last edited by Groundhog; 1 September 2004, 03:42.sigpic
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Sept 1st
1666
A small fire began in the bakery of Thomas Farynor in Pudding Lane, London. It swelled to become the Great Fire of London.
1830
John Donohue, who had been transported from Ireland in 1824, was shot dead in a gun battle with police at Cambelltown, Sydney. He is remembered in the song “ The Wild Colonial Boy” . Though the hero’s name in the song is Jack Duggan.
1856
John Redmond was born in Co. Wexford.
1864
Roger Casement was born.
1870
Isaac Butt founded the Home Government Association, making Home Rule the objective of constitutional nationalists.
The Battle of Sedan was fought during the Franco-Prussian War. The Germans won. The French were commanded by a foreign sounding Johnny called Marshal MacMahon.
1914
At Villers Cotterets the 2nd Division and the 3rd Cavalry Bde fought a rearguard action. 1st Bn Irish Guards were in 2nd Div. Lt-Col the Hon. George Morris, OC 1st Irish Guards, was killed in the woods near Villers-Cotterets, and is buried in the Guards Grave there.
L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery fought a famous action at Nery, France. Surprised by the Germans, the battery was brought into action under heavy fire and virtually eliminated. When all about him had been killed or severely wounded Sgt David Nelson, from Co. Monaghan, manned a gun alone until his ammunition was expended. He was hospitalised with injuries received in this action and a few days later the hospital fell into German hands but Nelson escaped and made his way back to the British lines. He was awarded a VC and commissioned. Major Nelson died of wounds at Lillers, France on 8th April 1918.
1916
Bulgaria declared war on Romania.
The 47th Brigade of the 16th (Irish) Division were detached to the 20th Division as a reserve. The 20th Division was about to make an attack on a small village north of the Somme river, named Guillemont.
1918
The US invaded Russia. Troops landed in Vladivostock.
1939
Germany invaded Poland and started World War II.
1969
Moammar Gadhafi seized power in a coup in Libya.
Died
1916
M/2130587 Pte James Conway. Royal Army Service Corps. Died at home. He was from Waterford.
1917
533V Stoker John Sweeney, HMS Vivid.Died in Tramore, Co. Waterford.
1922
Vol Sean McEvoy, a member of the IRA from Co. Tipperary was killed in action in Dublin.
1950
Cpl Bartholemew Galvin from Co. Kerry was killed in Korea with2nd Inf Div, US Army.Last edited by Groundhog; 3 September 2004, 18:28.sigpic
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Wouldn't be the last time the French ran into trouble with some Teutonic types at Sedan
It's pushing 65 years since the last invasion. Surely it's time for another.:Dsigpic
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Sept 2nd
1649
Oliver Cromwell began the Siege of Drogheda.
1752
The Gregorian calendar was adopted in Ireland and Britain. Tomorrow became Sept 14th.
1898
The Battle of Omdurman was fought in the Sudan. 50,000 followers of the Mahdi charged an Anglo-Egyptian army near Khartoum and were decimated.
At the battle Pte Thomas Byrne from Dublin, serving in the 21st Lancers, rescued a disnounted and disarmed officer of the Royal Horse Guards under attack from the Dervishes. Byrne was wounded twice in this act and was awarded a VC. He died in 1944.
Also at Khartoum, Capt Paul Kenna, son of a Co. Meath family, rescued a wounded officer and helped a Lieutenant rescue another. For which he earned a VC. Brigadier General Paul Kenna was killed at Gallipoli in 1915.
1918
CSM Martin Doyle, 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers, at Reincourt, France, took command of his company, extricated a surrounded group of men, rescued a wounded officer as well as the wounded crew of a tank, before which he had to destroy a machine gun firing on it and later drove off an enemy counter attack. About the only thing he failed to do was pick up the expended brass.:D CSM Doyle was awarded a VC to accompany his MM.
CSM Doyle was a pre-war regular, joining the Royal Irish Regt in Kilkenny in 1909. He was a native of Co. Wexford. He went to France with the Dublin Fusiliers in 1914 and joined the RMF on promotion to CSM. He went on to join the IRA in the War of Independence and fought in the Civil War in the National Army, in which he served as a CS until 1937. He died in 1940 and was interred in Grangegorman military cemetery, Dublin.
1919
Constable Foley, RIC, was shot and wounded by the IRA in Lorrha, Co. Tipperary.
1933
Fine Gael was born when Cummann na nGaedheal, the Centre Party, and the National Guard (the Blueshirts) amalgamated.
1942
Tom Williams, an IRA man, was hanged in Crumlin Road Jail, Belfast. He was one of six IRA men sentenced to death. They had mounted a diversion to take RUC attention away from three Easter parades which were banned. When a police patrol surprised the group Constable Patrick Murphy was shot. Williams took responsibility for the shooting. All six were sentenced to death but five were reprieved, including Joe Cahill, recently deceased. A typical IRA hero, Cahill later claimed to have shot Constable Murphy. After he was safely reprieved, of course.
German troops entered Stalingrad.
1944
The U.S. First Army entered Belgium.
1944
George Bush Snr was shot down by a Japanese fighter.
1945
The Japanese signed the formal document of surrender aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Died
1916
3607 Cpl Martin Mansfield, 7th Bn Leinster Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
1917
26/1297 Cpl Michael Whelan MM DCM, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Irish). Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford City.
1918
10259 Pte John Power, 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford City.Last edited by Groundhog; 2 September 2004, 04:53.sigpic
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Sept 3rd
1650
A busy day for Oliver Cromwell, he defeated the Scottish at the Battle of Dunbar.
1651
He defeated a combined Royalist-Scottish army at the Battle of Worcester.
1658
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth died age 59.
1842
John Devoy was born in Kill, Co. Kildare. He was a journalist and a leading member of the Fenians.
1916
The village of Guillemont was captured by 47th Bde of the 16th (Irish) Division, during the Battle of the Somme. The Bde was attached as Divisional reserve to the 20th Division. The previous day it was surmised that the Brigade intended to take Guillemont was too weak to do so and the 47th got the job.
Guillemont was of course, a pile of rubble at this stage with German positions dug into the cellars and tunnels connecting them. The approach route to the start line was through Bernafay and Trones woods, the scenes of fierce fighting since July.
The bombardment commenced at 8.15 am. The German artillery replied in kind and between this and their own artillery falling short the Irish suffered casualties as they waited to commence the battle. The 6th Bn Connaught Rangers lost 200 men in their own trenches. At noon the bombardment intensified until Zero Hour at 1203. The Rangers quickly took all objectives in the North side of the village, losing their CO, Lt-Col Lenox-Conyngham, in the process. North of the village 7th Bn The Leinster Regt attacked from Guillemont Railway station to the sunken lane east of Guillemont, where they consolidated, in preparation for a German counter-attack.
At 1250 the 8th Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers and 6th Bn Royal Irish Regt began their advance, leapfrogging the forward battalions and taking the remainder of the village. The Brigade advanced 2 hours later, to the sound of their pipers, as far as the Ginchy road and Wedge wood. Here they beat off three German attacks that night.
Two men of the 47th Brigade, 16th Division won VCs at Guillemont, the first in the division.
Lt John Holland, 7th Bn Leinster Regiment, from Athy, Co. Kildare, led his platoon of twenty-six bombers through their own barrage and destroyed many enemy positions. They captured over 50 prisoners. Only Holland and 5 of his men survived the assault. Holland was actually ill at the time and was hospitalized shortly after. He died in Tasmania in 1975.
Pte Thomas Hughes, 6th Bn Connaught Rangers, though already wounded single-handed, captured a machine gun. He was again wounded but still brought back three or four prisoners. Thomas was a Monaghan man and he died there in 1942.
A little further east the 2nd Royal Irish Regt in 7th Division was involved in an unsuccessful assault on Ginchy. 16th Irish Division would capture it six days later.
1939
Britain and France declared war on Germany.
1972
Mary Peters became the first Irish woman to win an Olympic Gold medal. She won the women's pentathlon in Munich.
Died
1915
223 CSM Michael McGrath, 5th Bn Royal Irish Regt. He died at sea and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli. He was from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
1916
Killed in action at Ginchy serving in 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt
Capt Edward Hegarty. Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Buried in Delville Wood Cemetery.
8726 Sgt William Gaule. Waterford City.
6550 Pte Daniel Boland. Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary. Buried in Delville Wood Cemetery.
6434 Pte Thomas Long. Waterford City.
11349 Pte Michael Maunsell. Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
8798 Pte Patrick O'Connor. Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
7673 Pte Paul Power. Waterford City.
11057 Pte James Walsh. Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary.
Killed in action at Guillemont serving in 6th Bn Royal Irish Regt
10157 Sgt William Fahy. Waterford City.
7498 Cpl Richard Kenny. Waterford City.
5393 Pte Michael Fanning. Waterford City.
6279 Pte Michael O'Brien.
11070 Pte John Keeffe. Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary.
Killed in action at Guillemont serving in 2nd Bn Leinster Regt
1335 RSM Patrick Kinsella, Marlfield, Co. Tipperary. RSM Kinsella is one of the few Irishmen who fell in the Great War, commemorated on a memorial in his own village in Ireland.
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P/ 601 Sgt John Mc Grath, 16th Bn Rifle Brigade. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny. His unit was in action near Hamel on the Somme on this day.
Pte William Sweeney, 1st Bn The Black Watch. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Lismore, Co. Waterford. 1st Bn The Black Watch fought in High Wood on this day.
1917
9537 Pte James Dennehy from Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. He was Killed in action on the Western Front serving in 1st Bn Irish Guards.
5793 Gnr Henry O'Rourke, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary and he is buried in Voormezeele Enclosures Nos 1 & 2 Cemetery, Belgium.
33637 Pte Robert St. Clair, 9th Bn Cheshire Regt. Died of wounds on the Western Front. He was from Waterford City.Last edited by Groundhog; 27 August 2006, 17:20.sigpic
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Sept 4th
1607
The event that has become known as the 'Flight of the Earls" took place when Hugh O'Neill, Ruari O'Donnell and other chiefs of their families sailed from Lough Swilly for the continent.
1798
Gen Cornwallis moved from Tuam for Castlebar. Humbert left Castlebar with 800 French troops and 1000 Irish rebels and moved into Co Sligo, planning to march to Ulster. Risings took place in Longford and Westmeath.
1851
John Dillon, nationalist politician, was born in Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
1870
The Emperor of France, Louis Napoleon III, was deposed and the 3rd French Republic was proclaimed in Paris.
1916
Field Marshal Haig reiterated that the high ground north of Ginchy, around Leuze Wood must be captured at all costs.
47th Bde of 16th Division was relieved in the line. 48th Bde replace them in 20th Div. The 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers of the brigade were ordered to hold Bernafay Wood. They spent 24 hours under bombardment from gas shells, losing 12 officers and 200 men.
7th and 8th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers of 49th Bde were put under command of the 5th Div.
1943
British 8th army landed in Southern Italy.
1997
Near Sidon, Lebanon 12 Israeli commandos were killed during a raid.
Died
1914
1176 Pte John Sloan,1st Bn Irish Guards. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
1916
10192 L/Cpl Michael Lynch, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died of wounds on the Western Front. Waterford City.
5838 Pte Daniel O'Farrell, 8th Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Tramore, Co. Waterford.
1917
Killed in action with the Irish Guards on the Western Front
2297 Pte Richard Clarke. Waterford City.
11233 Pte Patrick Flynn. Aglish, Co. Waterford.
11090 Pte Michael Hogan. Portlaw, Co. Waterford.
1918
62010 Pte Michael Nolan, 1/5th Bn Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Died on the Western Front. From Waterford City.sigpic
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Sept 5th
1798
Humbert defeated a small force at Collooney. That night he camped at Dromahair, Co. Longford. Granard was attacked by rebels.
1855
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Maude of the 3rd Foot, from Lisnadill, Co. Armagh was in charge of the covering and ladder party of the 2nd Division in the assault on the Redan at Sebastopol in the Crimea. He held a position with only nine or ten men and did not retire until all hope of support was at an end and he himself was dangerously wounded. He was awarded a VC.
1916
On the Somme, 7th Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached to the 5th Div, was ordered to take a German position called Combles trench. They advanced through fields of corn , unharvested since 1913 and sown thickly with barbed wire. In two unsuccessful attempts they lost 250 officers and men.
In the night their sister battalion, 8th RIF, was ordered up the line to relieve the 1st Devons, in preparation for an attack on the Combles-Ginchy road next morning. The approach route was over ground thick underfoot with British and German dead.
1918
British troops crossed the Canal du Nord at Moeuvres, France.
Died
1916
7556 Pte John Eustace, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Waterford City.
4398 Pte James Walsh, 8th Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. Died of wounds on the Western Front. He was from Waterford City.
35685 Sgt Patrick White, Royal Horse Artillery. He was Killed in action, on the Western Front and is buried in Quarry Cemetery, Montauban on the Somme. His father was Alexander White an R.Q.M.S. in the Royal Artillery, and he was from 18, Dillon St, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
1918
49046 Cpl Philip Hogan, 1st Bn Machine Gun Corps. Died in Salonika. A former member of the Royal Irish Regt, he was from Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
3582 L/Sgt John Moclair, 8th Bn Royal Irish Regt.Died on the Western Front. He was from Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
1922
Pte Patrick Byrne a member of the Naional Army from Thurles, Co. Tipperary. He was accidentally shot and killed.
1940
581126 Sgt Edmund Walsh, RAF. Died in England, age 40, and was buried in Fahenhan Cemetery, Norfolk. His parents were Dr W and Mrs Walsh, Clogheen, Co. Tipperary.
1999
Tpr Jonathan Campbell died in Lebanon.sigpic
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