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Information |
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| 30/05/2018 |
Sgt. William Edward Lynn |
Mrs Lynn, Mousetown, has two sons, Bob and Jimmie, serving their King and country at the front. They are attached to the Royal Field Artillery. She has two others, Willie and Johnnie, preparing for the fray with the North Irish Horse |
| 30/05/2018 |
Sgt. William Edward Lynn |
01997 |
| 30/05/2018 |
Sgt. William Edward Lynn |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 14th November 1914: |
| 30/05/2018 |
Driver Robert Lynn |
Mrs Lynn, Mousetown, has two sons, Bob and Jimmie, serving their King and country at the front. They are attached to the Royal Field Artillery. She has two others, Willie and Johnnie, preparing for the fray with the North Irish Horse |
| 30/05/2018 |
Driver Robert Lynn |
01997 |
| 30/05/2018 |
Driver Robert Lynn |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 14th November 1914: |
| 30/05/2018 |
Pte. John Lynn |
Mrs Lynn, Mousetown, has two sons, Bob and Jimmie, serving their King and country at the front. They are attached to the Royal Field Artillery. She has two others, Willie and Johnnie, preparing for the fray with the North Irish Horse |
| 30/05/2018 |
Pte. John Lynn |
01997 |
| 30/05/2018 |
Pte. John Lynn |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 14th November 1914: |
| 30/05/2018 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
Mrs Lynn, Mousetown, has two sons, Bob and Jimmie, serving their King and country at the front. They are attached to the Royal Field Artillery. She has two others, Willie and Johnnie, preparing for the fray with the North Irish Horse |
| 30/05/2018 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
01997 |
| 30/05/2018 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 14th November 1914: |
| 28/05/2018 |
Ld Stoker Frederick Ekin Bradley |
Mr Frederick Bradley, acting leading stoker of the submarine D5, which was sunk by a mine on 3rd November, and who lost his life on that occasion along with twenty other officers and men, was a son of Mr William Bradley, Corr and Dunavalley. Two brothers of the deceased are in the service of the Crown, Mr Rowland Bradley, of the North Irish Horse, being one of the bodyguard of Sir John French, and Mr Albert Bradley, who volunteered in the Canadian contingent and was recently at home on a visit. Another brother, Mr John Bradley, is on the Belfast police force. |
| 28/05/2018 |
Ld Stoker Frederick Ekin Bradley |
01996 |
| 28/05/2018 |
Ld Stoker Frederick Ekin Bradley |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 14th November 1914: |
| 28/05/2018 |
Driver Patrick Gartland |
Fianna Gaelic Football Club has lost three of its best players, who have joined the Irish Brigade, and are at present receiving their military education in Athlone. They are Tom Bradley, J P Daly and P Gartland. |
| 28/05/2018 |
Driver Patrick Gartland |
01995 |
| 28/05/2018 |
Driver Patrick Gartland |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 14th November 1914: |
| 26/05/2018 |
Maj William Ryan Lyle |
Captain (and Honorary-Major) William Ryan Lyle, late of the Mid Ulster Royal Garrison Artillery (formerly of Donaghmore House, but latterly residing at Larchmoor, Stoke-Poges, Buckinghamshire) has been appointed temporary captain in the army. Major Lyle was connected with the Mid Ulster Royal Garrison Artillery, stationed at Dungannon for upwards of twenty-seven years, and was greatly respected alike by officers and men. He took a deep interest in all departments of the work, and although advancing in years, he has lost none of his old vim. During the annual trainings of the militia, as the Mid Ulsters were popularly called the sub often pulled the Major�s leg, especially after retiring from the mess. A frequent practical joke was to fill a bath of water after the Major had retired for the night and empty it on his tent. The Major would suddenly appear armed with the first weapon he could lay hands on, but in the darkness the boys generally managed to escape. |
| 26/05/2018 |
Maj William Ryan Lyle |
01994 |
| 26/05/2018 |
Maj William Ryan Lyle |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 7th November 1914: |
| 25/05/2018 |
Capt James Claude Beauchamp Proctor |
The three sons of the late Mr James Edwin Proctor, solicitor, Limavady, and of Mrs Proctor, Tullydoey, Moy, are all in the service of their King and country. Mr J C B Proctor, M.A., LL.D., B.L., well-known in U.V.F. circles in the North, is now a Captain in the 10th (Service) Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and is stationed at Finner Camp; Lieutenant G Norman Proctor (who has already fought in the North West Indian frontier campaigns), of the Indian Army, is with the Indian Expeditionary Force in East Africa; and Mr Edwin V proctor, the youngest son, a member of the Australian Light Horse, is with the Australian Expeditionary Force. |
| 25/05/2018 |
Capt James Claude Beauchamp Proctor |
01993 |
| 25/05/2018 |
Capt James Claude Beauchamp Proctor |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 31st October 1914: |
| 25/05/2018 |
Pte. Thomas Patterson |
Private R Patterson, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, has sent word to his father, Mr W S Patterson, Newmills, that he is a prisoner of war in a German town. He is being treated very well. Private Patterson saw active service on the Indian frontier and served in other parts of the British Empire. He was just three months on the reserve list when called up. |
| 25/05/2018 |
Pte. Thomas Patterson |
01992 |
| 25/05/2018 |
Pte. Thomas Patterson |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 31st October 1914: (Private Robert Patterson - brother of Thomas Patterson) |
| 24/05/2018 |
Reg SM Joy Davis |
�I am sure you are wondering how I am getting on out here, and I hope you will forgive me for not writing before, but we are continually on the move after the Germans and don�t get very much chance, and when we do write, we can�t tell you where we are or what we are doing as all the letters etc. are read over by our own officers and then signed by them to see that we don�t mention the names of any of the places or what is happening. We are certainly worrying our enemies and doing our very best to wipe them out. There are a few of our fellows in hospital, but I am glad to say I am in luck�s way and still keeping safe and sound, but of course we all have to take our chances. We are having plenty of excitement and exercise dodging about. We are with the Indian column now and will soon make a big move ahead. I am glad to tell you I am promoted to sergeant now, and is great to be back in the army again.� |
| 24/05/2018 |
Reg SM Joy Davis |
Sergeant Joy Davis, of the 67th Company Army Service Corps, in a letter to his mother, Mrs Davis, Barrack Street, Dungannon, says:- |
| 24/05/2018 |
Reg SM Joy Davis |
01991 |
| 24/05/2018 |
Reg SM Joy Davis |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 31st October 1914: |
| 21/05/2018 |
Pte. William Duke |
Thomas Huey, Broughadoey, was granted a cottage on James Kerr�s farm at Drummond. Hoey is at present at the front. William Duke, Grange, who has also joined the colours, was granted a cottage on the lands of John Patterson, Grange. |
| 21/05/2018 |
Pte. William Duke |
01990 |
| 21/05/2018 |
Pte. William Duke |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 24th October 1914: For Soldiers |
| 21/05/2018 |
Pte. Robert McShane |
Private McShane shares a headstone with Private William Nixon, who was born in Cookstown and served with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and died on 26th August 1914. |
| 21/05/2018 |
Pte. Robert McShane |
Private Robert McShane is buried in Esnes Communal Cemetery, France. |
| 21/05/2018 |
Pte. Robert McShane |
01989 |
| 21/05/2018 |
Capt Charles Newell |
I would like to give you a sketch of the country and my journeys, but I will wait until we are having our tea together. I will have a good reminder, in the form of a diary, in which I am making rough sketches daily. On arriving in France on the night of Saturday 22nd August, we camped out until Monday afternoon, a few miles outside the sea port, Le Havre. After entraining until Tuesday we passed through Rouen and arrived at St Quentin, remaining there until the following night, when we left for La Fere, just in time to escape the Germans, who, according to rumour, arrived in St Quentin but a few hours after we had left. We rode right down to the south east of Paris and within fifteen of it a town called Tournai, where we joined the Fifth Division. All the luxuries the people possessed were shared upon us, but things changed when we turned up north again to follow the retreating Germans, for he had rid the country very well on his way. We received regular and substantial fare, but when we cannot eat it or change its form, we have to go hungry. A spoilt medico and I hold daily consultations as to how we are to manoeuvre the bill of fare, for as we follow up the Germans, and sometimes thousands of our own troops, you can guess how impossible it is to get anything to buy. Our fellows all have plenty of money, yet cannot buy matches. The French farmers do not live scattered over the country as in Ireland, but dwell in innumerable villages, where they live on potatoes, apples, nuts and French rolls. They drink no tea, but go in for cider cups and brews which they make themselves. I will send you a recipe for one of them. If you could send me a pocket electric lamp it might come in useful when I receive a midnight call to saddle up. I though Rouen was going to be our base and not Le Havre and, I had no idea where we were going when I started the train journey. Nor did I know until I had arrived, when I had to ask some of the natives. I believe we are going to get fresh kit supplied some of these days. I may be going to the Engineers today. If so, I shall let you know immediately.' |
| 21/05/2018 |
Capt Charles Newell |
�I met Mr Hall, dentist (Irish Street, Dungannon), this morning. He is with the 18th Field Ambulance Corps. He gave me this sheet of notepaper and an envelope, as I had neither. I was very glad to meet one whom I had known in Dungannon. I had not seen any of the Dungannon chaps for some time. I believe Davis (Corporal James Davis, Barrack Street, Dungannon, North Irish Horse), is with another Division, which was not many miles away a short time ago. I sent a message to him with a fellow who had lost the Division, but was returning to it. I have got no answer to it yet. Wingfield Espey (lower town, Dungannon, North Irish Horse) is with the Division guarding the general. Lieutenant D Williamson (Fort Hill, Castlecaulfield) is somewhere about this village. In fact I met Mr Hall when looking for him. If you get any information about the Dungannon chaps please let me have it, as we are quite apart. I will details some of my wants now lest I cannot get time again and will try to have this letter franked to speed its passage home. I want another packet of post cards, a few sheets of notepaper and envelopes, a copying ink pencil, trouser buttons, handkerchiefs, leather boot laces, a box of good matches, a cord for Boy Scout tea holder, and some gelatine sweets to put in tea (as milk cannot always be got, and when one gets it all the rest must share). I would like a corned tongue cooked and a black pudding cut in slices and fried, which should make it hardy enough for travelling. Some lads here got eggs from home, but they were all smashed, although boiled. Almost every third soldier has lost his regimental cap and wears a khaki knitted pirate�s cap, which was served out. We got ours on the boat, along with an iron-bladed knife and a Cardigan woollen jacket. We left our kit bags at Havre, and I could only take with me what I stood up in and what I managed to roll up in my top coat. I had to leave my mirror behind, but I brought my washing and shaving outfit, some extra socks, a night cap, knife, fork, spoon, et cetera. I can carry more stuff now owing to being in charge of a German saddle belonging to Mr Combe (Lieutenant S B Combe, North Irish Horse, recently reported missing), which has two wallets in it. Some I bought a shirt and some socks off other chaps for a few francs, as they have no money except 20 franc notes, which they cannot get changed and are white elephants to them. |
| 21/05/2018 |
Capt Charles Newell |
Mr Joseph Newell, Perry Street, Dungannon, has received a letter from his son, Trooper Harry Newell, of the North Irish Horse, under date of Tuesday 2nd October, of which he says:- |
| 21/05/2018 |
Capt Charles Newell |
01988 |
| 21/05/2018 |
Capt Charles Newell |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 17th October 1914: Letters from the Front - Harry Newell (brother of Charles Newell) |
| 19/05/2018 |
2nd Lt James Andrew Reynolds |
He subsequently underwent training in Tipperary. |
| 19/05/2018 |
2nd Lt James Andrew Reynolds |
Mr James Andrew Reynolds, youngest son of Mr T W Reynolds, Dungannon, has received a commission in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and has joined the regiment at Portobello. |
| 19/05/2018 |
2nd Lt James Andrew Reynolds |
01987 |
| 19/05/2018 |
2nd Lt James Andrew Reynolds |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 3rd October 1914: |
| 19/05/2018 |
2nd Lt James Andrew Reynolds |
James Reynolds obtained his commission in October 1914 in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and joined the regiment at Portobello Barracks in Rathmines Dublin. |
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