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17526   Private George Dilworth
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Dated added: 30/12/2015   Last updated: 18/02/2021
Personal Details
Regiment/Service: 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Died: 01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
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Summary      
George Dilworth was born in Killyman, County Tyrone. George Dilworth enlisted in Moy, County Tyrone. Private George Dilworth was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was he killed in action on Saturday 1st July 1916 at the Somme. Private Dilworth has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
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Cemetery Details
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial
  Thiepval, Somme
Grave Ref: Face 4D-5B
CWGC Casualty 754041
Summary      
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
Local Memorial Details

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1 Dungannon War Memorial - Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - WWI - Panel 1 Dungannon
References and Links
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1 Lurgan War Memorial Private G Dilworth, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers listed
2 National Archives UK Medal Card can be purchased here
3 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - 9th Batt. George Dilworth, killed in action
Dungannon District's War Dead Acknowledgements 2015-2023