9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Died:
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age:
21
Summary
Samuel McMullen was the son of James and Sarah McMullen. Samuel was born about 1895 in Fivemiletown. Samuel McMullen was living in Ballygawley when he enlisted in Belfast. Private Samuel McMullen was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. He was 21 years old.
Further Information
Samuel McMullen was the son of James and Sarah McMullen. Samuel McMullen and Sarah Martins were married on 15th November 1892 in the district of Fermanagh.
Samuel was born about 1895 in Fivemiletown. No GRONI record can be found.
Samuel’s father, James McMullen, died in the Brookeborough area on 10th December 1913, aged 57.
His mother remarried. Sarah McMullen and Edward McDowell were married on 19th March 1914 in the district of Fermanagh.
Samuel McMullen was living in Ballygawley when he enlisted in Belfast.
Private Samuel McMullen was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. He was 21 years old.
Private S McMullen has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916.
Private Samuel McMullen is listed on page 30 of the Fivemiletown War Dead book, page 34 of the Ballygawley War Dead book and page 308 of the Fermanagh War Dead book.
Private Samuel McMullen is commemorated locally on Fivemiletown War Memorial.
The CWGC records Samuel McMullen as the son of Sarah McDowell (formerly McMullen), of Ballygawley, County Tyrone, and the late James McMullen.
