1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
24/02/1894
Died:
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age:
22
Summary
Charles O誰eill was the son of John and Margret O'Neill. He was born on 24th February 1894 in Dungannon. The family lived at Anne Street, Dungannon. The O誰eill family were tinsmiths. Charles enlisted in Omagh. In July 1915, Private Charles O誰eill returned home to Anne Street, Dungannon suffering from wounds in his back and legs received in Flanders in May. He had been at the Front continuously from October 1914. Private Charles O誰eill later returned to the front with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He was killed in action on the first day of the Somme on 1st July 1916 aged 22.
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"
