Date |
Name |
Information |
|
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
Ireland�s Memorial Records incorrectly refer to a Joe �McCain�. |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
The CWGC record Joseph McCall as the brother of David McCall, of 511 Ormeau Road, Belfast. |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
Sapper Joe McCall has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
Sapper Joe McCall was serving with the 258th Tunnelling Company of the Royal Engineers when he was killed in action on 15th October 1916 in France. |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
The 258th Tunnelling Company was formed at Rouen in April 1916 and moved into Hill 70 sector near Loos. |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
Joseph McCall then joined the Tunnelling Company of the Royal Engineers. |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
Joseph McCall was a Private with the Irish Guards for a time, Service No 5064. |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
The 1911 census lists Joseph's mother living with her son David at house 5 in Derrycreevy (Knox), Bernagh, Tyrone. |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
The 1901 census does not list Joseph as living with the family at house 8 in Derrycreevy (Knox), Bernagh, County Tyrone. His father was a general labourer. |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
Known family: David McCall, Mary Ann McCall, Patrick McCall (born 16th November 1869), Elizabeth McCall (born 13th February 1872), David McCall (born 12th March 1874), Sarah McCall (born 22nd March 1876), Joseph McCall (born 26th January 1879). |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
Joseph McCall was born on 26th January 1879 in Moy, County Tyrone. He was one of at least five children. |
30/09/2017 |
Sapper Joseph McCall |
Joseph McCall was the youngest son of David and Mary Ann McCall. David McCall and Mary Ann Wade were married on 4th January 1869 in the district of Dungannon. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
In the event of my death, I leave all my money to my credit and personal belongings to my mother, Mrs Susan Harkin, Stangmore, Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland. Charles Harkin. 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
01947 |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
01946 |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
Last Will and Testament of Private Charles Harkin: |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
The CWGC record Private Charles Harkin as the son of Philip Harkin of Moy, County Tyrone. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
There is a Private Charles Hoskin of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on Dungannon War Memorial. This is believed to be a spelling error and is in fact Private Charles Harkin. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
Private Charles Harkin is also commemorated on Moy War Memorial. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
Private Charles Harkin has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 38 to 40 on Pozieres Memorial in France. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
In his will, Charles left all to his mother Susanna Harkin, who was living in Stangmore, Dungannon. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
Private Charles Harkin was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on Friday 22nd March 1918 during the German Spring Offensive. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
Charles Harkin enlisted in Dungannon. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
The 1911 census lists Charles as 14 years old, living with the family in Charlemont Town. Charles father Philip was working as a �lighter man�. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
Family: Philip Harkin, Susanna Harkin, Mary Harkin (born 31st July 1895), Charles Harkin (born 7th October 1896), Susanna Harkin (born 12th April 1898), Philip Harkin (born 18th August 1903), James D Harkin (born 16th February 1908). |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
The 1901 census records five year old Charles living with the family at house 31 in Charlemont, Armagh. His father was an agricultural labourer. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
Charles was born 7th October 1896 in the Moy area. He was the third of five children. |
29/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles Harkin |
Charles Harkin was the eldest son of Philip and Susanna Harkin. Philip Harkin and Susannah Murtagh were married on 10th October 1894 in the district of Armagh. |
28/09/2017 |
Pte. John Cumberland |
The Clerk mentioned that Mr James Lynn, of Mousetown, Coalisland, had had three sons killed in action, and Mr William J Cumberland, of Kilnacart, had lost two sons in action. Mr Harkin said he was personally acquainted with the Lynns and he knew no sadder case than theirs. There were four brothers serving and the three young men who had been killed had volunteered since the beginning of the war and two of them at least had received promotion. The War Office, he understood, intended placing the fourth boy on home service. He proposed that letters of sympathy be sent to both families. Mr Irwin, in seconding, said Mr Cumberland had three sons serving and now only one of them was left. Messrs. McMinn and Elliott supported the resolution, which was carried unanimously. |
28/09/2017 |
Pte. John Cumberland |
00705 |
28/09/2017 |
Pte. John Cumberland |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 12 October 1916: Dungannon Council - Rank and File's Heavy Losses |
28/09/2017 |
Pte. James Cumberland |
The Clerk mentioned that Mr James Lynn, of Mousetown, Coalisland, had had three sons killed in action, and Mr William J Cumberland, of Kilnacart, had lost two sons in action. Mr Harkin said he was personally acquainted with the Lynns and he knew no sadder case than theirs. There were four brothers serving and the three young men who had been killed had volunteered since the beginning of the war and two of them at least had received promotion. The War Office, he understood, intended placing the fourth boy on home service. He proposed that letters of sympathy be sent to both families. Mr Irwin, in seconding, said Mr Cumberland had three sons serving and now only one of them was left. Messrs. McMinn and Elliott supported the resolution, which was carried unanimously. |
28/09/2017 |
Pte. James Cumberland |
00705 |
28/09/2017 |
Pte. James Cumberland |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 12 October 1916: Dungannon Council - Rank and File's Heavy Losses |
28/09/2017 |
Driver Robert Lynn |
The Clerk mentioned that Mr James Lynn, of Mousetown, Coalisland, had had three sons killed in action, and Mr William J Cumberland, of Kilnacart, had lost two sons in action. Mr Harkin said he was personally acquainted with the Lynns and he knew no sadder case than theirs. There were four brothers serving and the three young men who had been killed had volunteered since the beginning of the war and two of them at least had received promotion. The War Office, he understood, intended placing the fourth boy on home service. He proposed that letters of sympathy be sent to both families. Mr Irwin, in seconding, said Mr Cumberland had three sons serving and now only one of them was left. Messrs. McMinn and Elliott supported the resolution, which was carried unanimously. |
28/09/2017 |
Driver Robert Lynn |
00705 |
28/09/2017 |
Driver Robert Lynn |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 12 October 1916: Dungannon Council - Rank and File's Heavy Losses |
28/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lynn |
The Clerk mentioned that Mr James Lynn, of Mousetown, Coalisland, had had three sons killed in action, and Mr William J Cumberland, of Kilnacart, had lost two sons in action. Mr Harkin said he was personally acquainted with the Lynns and he knew no sadder case than theirs. There were four brothers serving and the three young men who had been killed had volunteered since the beginning of the war and two of them at least had received promotion. The War Office, he understood, intended placing the fourth boy on home service. He proposed that letters of sympathy be sent to both families. Mr Irwin, in seconding, said Mr Cumberland had three sons serving and now only one of them was left. Messrs. McMinn and Elliott supported the resolution, which was carried unanimously. |
28/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lynn |
00705 |
28/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lynn |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 12 October 1916: Dungannon Council - Rank and File's Heavy Losses |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. Patrick George Coleman |
A local Canadian Volunteer in the person of Mr George Coleman, brother of Mr James Coleman, Grange, has been wounded. |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. Patrick George Coleman |
01945 |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. Patrick George Coleman |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 17th August 1916: |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
The CWGC record Private John Lavelle as the son of Charles and Margaret Lavelle of Annagher, Coalisland, County Tyrone. There is no confirmation that his mother�s name was Margaret. |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
Private John Lavelle is commemorated on Dungannon War Memorial as being with West Surrey Regiment. A newspaper report from 1915 also gives his regiment as 2nd Queen�s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. However, no evidence has been found to suggest he was ever in this regiment. |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
Private John Lavelle has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial in France. |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
In his will, he left all to his sister Sarah, who was living in Annagher, Coalisland. |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
Private John Lavelle was serving with the 10th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry when he was killed in action in France on Saturday 25th September 1915. |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
John does not appear on the 1911 census. It is suspected he may have been working in Scotland by this time. |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
Charles Lavelle remarried on 19th November 1901 to Margaret Hughes. They had one son. Charles Lavelle was born on 30th June 1903. |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
Known family: Charles Lavelle, John Lavelle (born about 1886), Joseph Lavelle (born about 1887), Sarah Lavelle (born about 1889). |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
The 1901 census however records John as being 15 years old, giving a birth around 1896. John was working as a mill worker. His mother had died some years earlier. His father was a farm labourer. |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
He was born about 1890 according to the CWGC, 1886 according to the census. No GRONI record has been found to support either. |
24/09/2017 |
Pte. John Lavelle |
John Lavelle was the son of Charles Lavelle. He was born in Ballynakelly, Coalisland. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
Private Robert Averall, Inniskilling Fusiliers, son of Mr James Averall, Milltown, Dungannon. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
01944 |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd August 1916: Casualties |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
Joseph McIntyre writes that he �misses� Averall, who came out to �this country� together last September. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
The CWGC record Private Robert Averall as the son of Mr and Mrs James Averall of 22 Brooke Street, Milltown, Dungannon, County Tyrone. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
Private Robert Averall has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 5 on Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
Private Robert Averall was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on Saturday 7th November 1914 at the 1st Battle of Ypres. He was 22 years old. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
Private Robert Averall was called up with the Reservists on 7th August 1914 and went to the front on the 5th September. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
Robert Averall was a member of Holdfast L.O.L. 1620. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
The 1911 census lists Robert as age 19, living with the family at house 23 in Brook Street (South Side), Dungannon. Robert and his father were both labourers. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
Robert was a pupil of Drumglass National School. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
Family: James Averill, Mary Ann Averill, Robert Averill (born 31st December 1891), Mary Ann Averill (born 15th April 1894, died 22nd March 1911, age 16), Maria Averill (born 5th May 1896, died 7th May 1896), Maria Averill (born 9th August 1897), Carliona / Caroline Averall (born 30th September 1901), Thomas James Averall (born 22nd October 1904). |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
The 1901 census lists Robert as age 9, living with the family at house 4 in Miltown (South side), Dungannon. James Averall was a farm servant. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
Robert J Averall was born on 31st December 1891 in Gortshalgan, Dungannon. He was the eldest of six children, four surviving. |
23/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert J Averall |
Robert Averall was the eldest son of James and Mary Jane Averall. James Averall and Mary Bell were married on 2nd September 1889 in the district of Dungannon. |
21/09/2017 |
Pte. Thomas McKeown |
Private W McKeown, Inniskillings, is reported slightly wounded. His mother is Mrs Bella McKeown, Garvaghy. |
21/09/2017 |
Pte. Thomas McKeown |
01943 |
21/09/2017 |
Pte. Thomas McKeown |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 11th May 1916: (Private William McKeown - brother of Thomas McKeown) |
21/09/2017 |
Pte. Alexander Watt |
Mr Joseph Watt, Georges Street, Dungannon, has received intimation that his third son, Trooper William Watt, Canadian Mounted Rifles, has been wounded in the side and thigh in an artillery bombardment at the front and is now in hospital in England. Trooper Watt is one of three brothers serving, while one of his sisters, Miss Sarah Watt, is nursing in a V.A.D. hospital in Wiltshire. |
21/09/2017 |
Pte. Alexander Watt |
01942 |
21/09/2017 |
Pte. Alexander Watt |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 4th May 1916: (brother of Alexander Watt) |
20/09/2017 |
Maj Robertson Stewart Smyth |
Another old Dungannon Royal School boy has given up his life for the cause of King and country in the person of Major Robertson S Smyth, M.D., Royal Army Medical Corps (Banbridge), who has died in a nursing home in London. |
20/09/2017 |
Maj Robertson Stewart Smyth |
01941 |
20/09/2017 |
Maj Robertson Stewart Smyth |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 13th April 1916: |
20/09/2017 |
L/Corp Randal Edmund McManus |
�It was a pleasant surprise when I received today from the Flag Day Fund a parcel which included a fine packet of chocolates from your boys. It was very, very thoughtful of them, and I know all the Dungannon soldier boys will appreciate it. Please give them my best thanks and say how pleased I am to receive such a pleasant reminder from my old town,� |
20/09/2017 |
L/Corp Randal Edmund McManus |
Mr W N Thornberry, principal of Drumglass National School, has received the following letter from Trooper Hubert McManus, North Irish Horse:- |
20/09/2017 |
L/Corp Randal Edmund McManus |
01940 |
20/09/2017 |
L/Corp Randal Edmund McManus |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 23rd March 1916: Thanks from the Front (Hubert McManus �brother of Randal McManus) |
20/09/2017 |
Sgt. Edward James McNeill |
Sergeant Edward Lucas, Parkanaur, and Privates Harry Hobson and Ted McNeill, Dungannon, all of the 9th Inniskilling Fusiliers, have had a very narrow shave in the trenches in France. While on duty they were subjected to shell fire from the Germans. A large piece of shrapnel shell, about two pounds in weight, skimmed over the parapet, and knocking the steel helmet off Sergeant Lucas, buried itself about a foot and a half in the bottom of the trench between Privates Hobson and McNeill. |
20/09/2017 |
Sgt. Edward James McNeill |
01939 |
20/09/2017 |
Sgt. Edward James McNeill |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 23rd March 1916: Dungannon Soldier�s Escape |
19/09/2017 |
Civilian Thomas John Browne |
Major James C Browne, D.S.O., Army Service Corps (grandson of the late Mr William Browne, Killymaddy House, Dungannon), has been appointed a deputy director of transport. |
19/09/2017 |
Civilian Thomas John Browne |
01938 |
19/09/2017 |
Civilian Thomas John Browne |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 9th March 1916: Major James C Browne (brother of Thomas John Browne) |
19/09/2017 |
Pte. David Sands |
The following local soldiers have also arrived home in Dungannon on short furlough:- Corporal John Bell, Irish Guards; Private David Sandes, 6th Inniskillings (invalided owing to an attack of dysentery contracted at the Dardanelles); and Private Thomas Orr, Moygashel, 9th Inniskillings. |
19/09/2017 |
Pte. David Sands |
01937 |
19/09/2017 |
Pte. David Sands |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 17th February 1916: |
19/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Orr |
The following local soldiers have also arrived home in Dungannon on short furlough:- Corporal John Bell, Irish Guards; Private David Sandes, 6th Inniskillings (invalided owing to an attack of dysentery contracted at the Dardanelles); and Private Thomas Orr, Moygashel, 9th Inniskillings. |
19/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Orr |
01937 |
19/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Orr |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 17th February 1916: Thomas Orr (brother of Robert Orr) |
18/09/2017 |
Lieut Ernest Magowan Harper |
Lieutenant Ernest M Harper, 7th Munster Fusiliers, who is also mentioned, was killed in action at the Dardanelles in August last. He was the youngest son of Mr Henry M Harper, Northland Place, Dungannon, and was twenty-five years of age. He was educated at Dungannon royal School, and afterwards secured a scholarship at the Royal University, where he had a brilliant career and obtained a degree of Bachelor of Science with honours. He had just been appointed a demonstrator in chemistry at Queen�s University, Belfast, at the outbreak of the war, but relinquished that position in order to take up a commission. |
18/09/2017 |
Lieut Ernest Magowan Harper |
01936 |
18/09/2017 |
Lieut Ernest Magowan Harper |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd February 1916: Mentioned in Despatches |
18/09/2017 |
Pte. James Stewart |
Mrs H Wilson, Roan House, Coalisland, has lately received grateful letter of thanks from the following local men at the front to Miss Adams and helpers of Coalisland Jumble Sale, for parcels of comforts received:- Private Hugh O�Neill, Corporal James Crooks, Driver P Gartland, Private Robert Campbell, Private J P Daly, R Patterson (prisoner), Private James Stewart, Sergeant J Marsh, Private S Proctor, Bombardier W Rougvie, Royal Field Artillery, Gunner W Brockwell, Royal Field Artillery, and others. |
18/09/2017 |
Pte. James Stewart |
01935 |
18/09/2017 |
Pte. James Stewart |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd February 1916: Coalisland Comforts |
18/09/2017 |
2nd Lt Joseph Marsh |
Mrs H Wilson, Roan House, Coalisland, has lately received grateful letter of thanks from the following local men at the front to Miss Adams and helpers of Coalisland Jumble Sale, for parcels of comforts received:- Private Hugh O�Neill, Corporal James Crooks, Driver P Gartland, Private Robert Campbell, Private J P Daly, R Patterson (prisoner), Private James Stewart, Sergeant J Marsh, Private S Proctor, Bombardier W Rougvie, Royal Field Artillery, Gunner W Brockwell, Royal Field Artillery, and others. |
18/09/2017 |
2nd Lt Joseph Marsh |
01935 |
18/09/2017 |
2nd Lt Joseph Marsh |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd February 1916: Coalisland Comforts |
18/09/2017 |
Driver Patrick Gartland |
Mrs H Wilson, Roan House, Coalisland, has lately received grateful letter of thanks from the following local men at the front to Miss Adams and helpers of Coalisland Jumble Sale, for parcels of comforts received:- Private Hugh O�Neill, Corporal James Crooks, Driver P Gartland, Private Robert Campbell, Private J P Daly, R Patterson (prisoner), Private James Stewart, Sergeant J Marsh, Private S Proctor, Bombardier W Rougvie, Royal Field Artillery, Gunner W Brockwell, Royal Field Artillery, and others. |
18/09/2017 |
Driver Patrick Gartland |
01935 |
18/09/2017 |
Driver Patrick Gartland |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd February 1916: Coalisland Comforts |
17/09/2017 |
Corp Joseph Quinn M.M. |
03295 |
17/09/2017 |
L/Corp George Roberts |
03293 |
17/09/2017 |
L/Corp George Roberts |
03294 |
17/09/2017 |
L/Corp George Roberts |
03292 |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
News was received from Ottowa this morning by Captain F Mitchell of No 6 fire hall, to the effect that one of the late members of that hall, William Douglas Reid, aged 25, had died in Mattawa as the result of jumping from a moving train. Reid, who had been at No 6 for the past two years, left on Saturday last for France with the Canadian Overseas Construction Corps and be so far as can be gathered from the meagre details to hand, tried to leave the moving train at Mattawa but missed his footing and was killed. He is believed to have a brother residing in the city, but up to the present, the latter has not been located. It is the intention of the Fireman�s Benevolent Association to bring the body back to the city for burial if this can be arranged. |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
03291 |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
From the Vancouver Daily World dated 11th November 1915: Local Fireman killed by Train � William Reid of No 6 Hall Meets Tragic Death at Mattawa, Ontario. |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
William�s brother, Trooper David J Reid, served with the Canadian Regiment Lord Strathcona�s Horse and survived the war. |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
In 2017, the CWGC acknowledged that Sapper William Reid was buried in Mattawa (Pinehill Union) Cemetery. |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
Sapper William Reid is listed in the Canadian Book of Remembrance (Virtual Cemetery), which was established to commemorate those who were listed in Canada's official World War One Book of Remembrance (numbering around 300 casualties), but were not within the records of the Commission. |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
Sapper William Reid was killed in Mattawa, Ottowa, as the result of jumping from a moving train on 10th November 1915, some ten days after he enlisted. |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
William had been employed on the Vancouver Fire Brigade staff. Prior to enlisting he was working as a trackman, laying down railway track. His address on enlisting was No. 6 Firehall, Vancouver, British Columbia. His brother had joined the Toronto Police Force. |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
William and David Reid emigrated to Canada in 1912. |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
01933 |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
Trooper David J Reid, Lord Strathcona�s Horse, whose photo we give above, is a brother of Mr Alex M Reid, Derryfubble, Moy. He emigrated to Canada in 1912 and had been on the Toronto police force. On the first call for volunteers for the front he promptly offered his services and is at present in France with his regiment. His brother, the late Mr William D Reid, whose photo is also given, was killed in a railway accident in Ottawa in November last, after being accepted for service in the Canadian Railways Overseas Construction Corps. He had twice previously offered his services and had been rejected, but had been accepted for service on the C.R.O.C.C. before his death. He had emigrated to the Dominion the same time as his brother and had been employed on the Vancouver Fire Brigade staff before joining the Canadian Railways Overseas Construction Corps. |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
01932 |
17/09/2017 |
Sapper William Douglas Reid |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 20th January 1916: |
17/09/2017 |
Civilian Thomas John Browne |
Colonel Edward George Browne, of the headquarters staff, is the youngest son of the late Mr William Browne, Killymaddy House, and a brother of Colonel William Browne, J.P., Northland Row, Dungannon; A W Browne, Londonderry, P.M.O. of the North Irish Coast Defences; Major James Browne, Belfast; Dr T B Browne, Benburb; and Dr T J Browne, Dublin, chief medical inspector L.G.B. He has had considerable service in India, and went out to France with the First Expeditionary Force, being attached to the Third Cavalry Brigade and afterwards to the First Brigade. He was appointed assistant deputy director-general of medical services in France, and is now deputy director-general. He had been mentioned in despatches in May. He had been in hospital in Marseille, but has since resumed duty again. |
17/09/2017 |
Civilian Thomas John Browne |
01931 |
17/09/2017 |
Civilian Thomas John Browne |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 6th January 1916: Col. E G Browne (brother of Thomas John Browne) |
17/09/2017 |
Capt Bernard Score Browne M.C. |
Temporary Lieutenant Bernard Score Browne, M.B., Royal Army Medical Corps (attached to the 2nd Cheshires), is the second son of Colonel Abraham W Browne, Dungannon and Derry. He had been a successful medical missionary in China, and volunteered at the outbreak of the war. He has recently been the recipient of the Military Cross for succouring the wounded under the most trying and dangerous conditions. |
17/09/2017 |
Capt Bernard Score Browne M.C. |
01930 |
17/09/2017 |
Capt Bernard Score Browne M.C. |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 6th January 1916: |
16/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert George Lawson |
Mr W J Lawson, Milltown, Dungannon, has received intimation from his son, Private William Lawson, 10th Irish Rifles, that he is in hospital suffering from rheumatism contracted in the trenches. He states that the Germans in front of their line had to evacuate their first line of trenches owing to flooding, and that in flying back to the reserve trenches a number of the enemy were killed. |
16/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert George Lawson |
01929 |
16/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert George Lawson |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 16th December 1915: Milltown Man in Hospital (Private William Lawson - brother of George Lawson) |
16/09/2017 |
Pte. Thomas John Cross |
Above are photos of the two soldier sons of Mrs Cross, Market Square, Dungannon, both of whom are at present serving with the Ulster Division in France. Private Samuel Cross, 9th Inniskilling Fusiliers, volunteered in August 1914 while the other brother, Private Thomas Cross, enlisted at Christmas, joining the same regiment. Both had served their apprenticeship with the firm of Messrs Richard Richardson Ltd, Dungannon, and Thomas afterwards had been employed in Belfast, and Samuel in Moy. They are brothers of Mr R W Cross, relieving officer for No 1 district of Dungannon Union. |
16/09/2017 |
Pte. Thomas John Cross |
01928 |
16/09/2017 |
Pte. Thomas John Cross |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 16th December 1915: Brothers in the Trenches |
15/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
�Just a few lines in answer to your very nice parcel and letter which I just received now. We were just having dinner in an old barn when the post Corporal came in with it. I was glad to see by your letter that you are all well at home as this leaves me and all the Dungannon boys �A-1�. We are still having a rest, but we expect to soon go up to the trenches again. The last time we were in them we had only one casualty in the battalion, but I am very glad to let you know that we had none in my Company. It would have been the sight of your life if you had seen the Dungannon and Belfast boys going into the trenches singing a song entitled �For we�re Irish and Proud of it too�. Don�t forget to send me the Courier.� |
15/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
Mr Richard Dickson, Beechvalley, Dungannon, has received the following letter from his son, Corporal Robert J Dickson, 9th Inniskilling Fusiliers, who is at present serving with the Ulster Division in France:- |
15/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
01927 |
15/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 2nd December 1915: With the Ulster Division (Robert Dickson - brother of Private William R Dickson) |
12/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert George Lawson |
The weather here is getting very bad now, raining one time and snowing another. There were four inches of snow on the ground this morning and it was very cold. The ground is in an awful state now and takes one to the knees in mud. At night we lie on four feet of straw and sometimes a couple of bundles on top of us. Our division is far from what our enemies call us. They said when the _ Division went into action that their legs were shaking them but I can tell you upheld the� win us the war if we are supported by those at home. We don�t want supports of conscripts; we want volunteers if possible. You will be surprised to hear that there is a wad shop (as we term them) in the trenches where one can get cigarettes, a pint of beer and other small commodities, so let anyone who wants to aid in this struggle for liberty know that they can buy their fags as well under shot and shell as at home. I got the papers last night and the photos in the Tyrone Courier look well. I showed them to our lieutenant and he was delighted to see them. |
12/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert George Lawson |
Sapper Samuel Lawson, Royal Engineers (Ulster Division), writing to his wife at Milltown, Dungannon, on 16th November, from France says:- |
12/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert George Lawson |
01926 |
12/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert George Lawson |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 25th November 1915: With the Ulster Division - Sapper Samuel Lawson (brother of George Lawson) |
12/09/2017 |
Capt Bernard Score Browne M.C. |
One of the officers on whom the King has conferred the Military Cross for gallantry and devotion to duty in the field is Temporary Lieutenant Bernard Score Browne, M.B., Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the 2nd Cheshire Regiment, a member of the Browne family of Killymaddy, Dungannon. He is the second son of Colonel Abraham W Browne, St Kilda, P.M.O. of the North Irish Coast Defences, and is a nephew of Colonel William Browne, J.P., Dungannon; Dr T J Browne, Dublin; Dr T D Browne, Benburb; and Colonel Edward Browne, Deputy Director General of Medical Services in France. Lieutenant Browne, who is 23 years of age, had been for three years a medical missionary in China, and on the outbreak of the war he obtained a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and has been in France with the 2nd Cheshires since the beginning of the year. |
12/09/2017 |
Capt Bernard Score Browne M.C. |
01925 |
12/09/2017 |
Capt Bernard Score Browne M.C. |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 11th November 1915: Military Cross for Lieutenant Browne, M.B. |
12/09/2017 |
2nd Lt James Andrew Reynolds |
Second Lieutenant J A Reynolds, 7th Irish Fusiliers, has relinquished his commission on account of ill-health. He is the youngest son of Mr T W Reynolds, Dungannon. |
12/09/2017 |
2nd Lt James Andrew Reynolds |
01924 |
12/09/2017 |
2nd Lt James Andrew Reynolds |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 4th November 1915: |
12/09/2017 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
Gunner James Lynn, Royal Field Artillery, has returned to Coalisland and looks very fit after fourteen months� campaigning. He is the third brother who has returned and his fourth brother was killed some months ago. |
12/09/2017 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
01923 |
12/09/2017 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 4th November 1915: |
11/09/2017 |
R/man John Alexander Doonan |
Mr Johnston Doonan, caretaker of Dungannon Markets, has volunteered for service and joined the 12th Inniskilling Fusiliers at Newtownards. Mr Doonan had served his full period in the R.I.C. and had been stationed for a long time in Dungannon. His son, Mr Fred Doonan, is abroad with the Ulster Division. |
11/09/2017 |
R/man John Alexander Doonan |
01922 |
11/09/2017 |
R/man John Alexander Doonan |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 28th October 1915: (Father of John Doonan) |
11/09/2017 |
Capt William Thomas Lyons |
Captain W T Lyons, an old Dungannon Royal School boy, has been gazetted to the adjutancy of the 10th Royal Welsh Fusiliers. |
11/09/2017 |
Capt William Thomas Lyons |
01921 |
11/09/2017 |
Capt William Thomas Lyons |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 7th October 1915: |
11/09/2017 |
Lieut Hewitt Huggard |
Mrs Hale, Fairview, Dungannon, has presented a wheeled ambulance stretcher of a new pattern to the 6th East Yorkshire Regiment, now at the Dardanelles, in memory of the late Lieutenant H Huggard, of that Battalion, who was a native of Dungannon, and the eldest son of Rev R Huggard, M.A., formerly of Dungannon, and now rector of St John�s, Barnsley. Miss Hale has presented a similar to the 2nd Inniskilling Fusiliers, now operating in Flanders, to help alleviate the suffering of the wounded of the Tyrone Regiment. Both the stretchers were obtained from, and despatched by the St John Ambulance Association. |
11/09/2017 |
Lieut Hewitt Huggard |
01920 |
11/09/2017 |
Lieut Hewitt Huggard |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 7th October 1915: Dungannon Ladies� Generosity |
11/09/2017 |
Lieut Hewitt Huggard |
Rev. Richard Huggard, M.A., Surrogate, vicar of St John�s, Barnsley, and formerly of Dungannon, has received news that his eldest son, Lieutenant Hewitt Huggard, 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, has been killed in action at the Dardanelles. Formerly his name appeared in the official list of missing from the Dardanelles. The deceased was a native of Dungannon. Mr Huggard was one time curate in Tuam, and St Michael�s, Galway, and on leaving Dungannon accepted a living in Yorkshire. He was one of the most enthusiastic Rugby officials in Ulster, and was president of the Northern Branch of the Union in 1897-98, being subsequently appointed a vice-president of the Yorkshire Union. Mr Huggard has heartily thrown himself into the work of recruiting in Barnsley, upwards of 2,700 men have passed through his hands for the York and Lancaster Regiment, in the 14th Service Battalion of which he holds a commission as captain, and his second son, Mr L D R Huggard, is a second lieutenant in the 13th Battalion. |
11/09/2017 |
Lieut Hewitt Huggard |
01919 |
11/09/2017 |
Lieut Hewitt Huggard |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 30th September 1915: |
11/09/2017 |
Pte. Thomas Gates |
The relatives of Private M Gates, 6th Inniskilling Fusiliers, who is at present at the Dardanelles, have received a letter from him stating that he is at present in good health and asking to be remembered to all his old friends. |
11/09/2017 |
Pte. Thomas Gates |
01918 |
11/09/2017 |
Pte. Thomas Gates |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 23rd September 1915: Dungannon Men at the Dardanelles (Matthew Gates � brother of Thomas Gates) |
11/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Alexander Jordan |
Private Robert Jordan has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. |
11/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Alexander Jordan |
Private Robert Alexander Jordan was serving with the 1st 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. |
11/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Alexander Jordan |
Robert enlisted in Pontefract, England. |
11/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Alexander Jordan |
Robert Alexander Jordan was born in Donaghmore, County Tyrone. |
10/09/2017 |
Capt Charles Newell |
Trooper Harry Newell, C Squadron, North Irish Horse, second son of Mr J Newell, Dungannon, returned home on Thursday from Belgium on a short leave. He had gone out with the first Expeditionary Force, and had taken part in all principal engagements since the beginning of the war. |
10/09/2017 |
Capt Charles Newell |
01917 |
10/09/2017 |
Capt Charles Newell |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 26th August1915: Harry Newell (brother of Captain Charles Newell) |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Harbinson |
Other Dungannon soldiers home from the front wounded include Private Michael Wilson and Private Patrick Donnelly of the Dublin Fusiliers; Lance Corporal Adam Harbinson of the Royal Irish Rifles; and Private W J Wilson of the Irish Fusiliers. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Harbinson |
01916 |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Harbinson |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 8th July 1915: (Adam Harbinson � brother of William Harbinson) |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
The CWGC record Private William John Patton as the nephew of Mrs Sarah Meneilly of 145 Snugville Street, Belfast. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
Joseph Seawright�s son, Thomas Seawright, also served in the war. Thomas Seawright would have been William�s uncle. He survived the war and is listed on the Newmills Roll of Honour as among those who served. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
Private William John Patton has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
Private William John Patton was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action in France on Sunday 16th May 1915. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
A newspaper report from 1915 suggests he was living in Pike�s Bridge, near Newmills. James Stewart, who also died in the war, is also listed as being from Pike�s Bridge. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
William Patton enlisted in Belfast. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
The 1911 census lists William as age 17, living with relatives at house 22 in Derry, Tullyniskane, County Tyrone. William was a general labourer. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
The 1901 census lists William James as age 7, living with relatives at house 2 in Derry, Tullyniskane, County Tyrone. His grandfather was Joseph Seawright. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
William moved to Newmills when he was young and was brought up by his grandfather. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
Known family: Thomas Patton, Margaret Patton, William Patton (born 17th March 1893, Belfast), Thomas Patton (born 27th September 1894, Belfast), Charles Patton (born 27th November 1895, Belfast). |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
William J Patton was born in Shankill, Belfast on 17th March 1893. He was one of three sons. |
08/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
William Patton was eldest son of Thomas and Margaret Patton. Thomas Patton and Margaret Seawright were married on 7th July 1892 in Belfast. |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
�Just a few lines hoping to find you well as we are enjoying the best of health. We had a very rough time this last while. The Germans have been using poisonous gasses and several other poisonous shells. But we are holding our own. Since the 25th April up to the present we have had some heavy engagements but have come through safe so far. I hope to see the Ulster Volunteers out here soon. We are waiting for Kitchener�s army to come up to the fighting line till we get a week�s rest. We have done our share of fighting since we started. One thing we enjoy is the issue of rum; when we get it we are in proper fighting order. I would like the young men of Coalisland and surrounding districts to realise we are engaged in one of the greatest struggles the world has ever seen and the more men we have, we will beat them the sooner. We are not downhearted yet.� |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
Private Cardwell mentions that he and T Abernethy received parcels of comforts and concludes by asking to be remembered to all his old friends. Mr Cardwell also received a letter, signed by Private Albert Buckley, of the 1st Irish Fusiliers, in which he states:- |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
�Just a few lines to let you know I received your letter and papers, as did also T Abernethy. The Germans used the gasses on us again for the second time; they gave us a better does this time but we have got respirations (respirators) for putting over our mouths. It is a terrible thing. We had a letter from J Lynn; he was only slightly wounded by shrapnel. They had a night attack and I am sorry to say they lost a good few. J Cunningham, P Corr, Young Patton from Pike�s Bridge and R J Frizelle were all killed. Another man we knew is missing but might turn up yet. We lost our machine gun sergeant; he was sniped through the head beside me. He belonged to Scarva and was a right good chap.� |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
Mr William Cardwell, Derry Green, Coalisland, has received the following letter from his brother, Private R Cardwell, of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers:- |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
01915 |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. William Patton |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 17th June 1915 � Coalisland Men in the Trenches � An Appeal to Shirkers |
07/09/2017 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
�Just a few lines hoping to find you well as we are enjoying the best of health. We had a very rough time this last while. The Germans have been using poisonous gasses and several other poisonous shells. But we are holding our own. Since the 25th April up to the present we have had some heavy engagements but have come through safe so far. I hope to see the Ulster Volunteers out here soon. We are waiting for Kitchener�s army to come up to the fighting line till we get a week�s rest. We have done our share of fighting since we started. One thing we enjoy is the issue of rum; when we get it we are in proper fighting order. I would like the young men of Coalisland and surrounding districts to realise we are engaged in one of the greatest struggles the world has ever seen and the more men we have, we will beat them the sooner. We are not downhearted yet.� |
07/09/2017 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
Private Cardwell mentions that he and T Abernethy received parcels of comforts and concludes by asking to be remembered to all his old friends. Mr Cardwell also received a letter, signed by Private Albert Buckley, of the 1st Irish Fusiliers, in which he states:- |
07/09/2017 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
�Just a few lines to let you know I received your letter and papers, as did also T Abernethy. The Germans used the gasses on us again for the second time; they gave us a better does this time but we have got respirations (respirators) for putting over our mouths. It is a terrible thing. We had a letter from J Lynn; he was only slightly wounded by shrapnel. They had a night attack and I am sorry to say they lost a good few. J Cunningham, P Corr, Young Patton from Pike�s Bridge and R J Frizelle were all killed. Another man we knew is missing but might turn up yet. We lost our machine gun sergeant; he was sniped through the head beside me. He belonged to Scarva and was a right good chap.� |
07/09/2017 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
Mr William Cardwell, Derry Green, Coalisland, has received the following letter from his brother, Private R Cardwell, of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers:- |
07/09/2017 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
01915 |
07/09/2017 |
Sgt. James Lynn M.M. |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 17th June 1915 � Coalisland Men in the Trenches � An Appeal to Shirkers |
07/09/2017 |
L/Corp Rowland Irvine Bradley |
Mr William Bradley, Corr and Dunavalley, Charlemont, has received official intimation that his son, Private Albert James Bradley, Princess Patricia�s Canadian Light Infantry, was wounded in the right hand on 7th May by a shrapnel bullet, and is at present in a London hospital. |
07/09/2017 |
L/Corp Rowland Irvine Bradley |
01914 |
07/09/2017 |
L/Corp Rowland Irvine Bradley |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 17 June 1915: (Private Albert Bradley - brother of Rowland Bradley) |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. William Harbinson |
Private R Cardwell, of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, writing to his mother, Mrs William Cardwell, Derry Green, Coalisland, says:- �We had a great battle with the Germans a few weeks ago and T Abernethy and I have come through safely. The Germans used poisonous gases on us but I only got a slight dose of it. It had terrible effects if you get a proper does of it. Adam Harbinson, of Dungannon, was wounded some time ago. The Canadians lost a terrible lot in the fight; they are a fine lot of chaps. It is terrible to see the dead lying everywhere.� Private Abernethy mentions that he has received parcels of comforts from friends, and adds that at present, he is quite well. |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. William Harbinson |
01913 |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. William Harbinson |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 10th June 1915: Coalisland Man�s Experiences (Adam Harbinson � brother of William Harbinson) |
07/09/2017 |
Capt Charles Newell |
The Tyrone Courier is very illuminating in the Petty Sessions and other corners as to men eligible for active service but who have quite made up their minds to live for their country and who doubtless feel to snug in their �fat job� or �safe beat� to venture into the Flanders to bear a hand in breaking up and destroying the great packs of ravenous German wolves which roam over France and Flanders and would raid also our Irish villages and make the days and nights hideous. There would be nothing fat left in Ireland, as now in Belgium, not even a fat national policeman. There would be Germans on that job! I wonder that eligible men are not ashamed to parade themselves in the limelight of the public press. About Dungannon, I am lead to believe that the eligible receive scant respect, and I can assure you that men who have only been here since Easter have no respect for such shirkers. And men who have endured the campaign since last August have quite made up their minds that they, or rather, what is left of them, have done their own bit, and are now doing the shirker�s bit into the bargain. The South African campaign has been called a picnic when compared with last winter�s campaign, but that winter�s contests are as nothing to this season�s struggles and Waterloos. The pace of the war has been greatly quickened these last few weeks and the pace is likely to further increase. The present �greater Waterloos� are going to be succeeded by mightier and more numerous, and more frequent Waterloos. Those who are enlisting just now don�t deserve much credit for while they are being trained, war�s mightiest deed will have been wrought. |
07/09/2017 |
Capt Charles Newell |
Mr Joseph Newell, Perry Street, Dungannon, has received the following letter from his son, Trooper Henry Newell, of the North Irish Horse, who is at present at the front with the Head Army staff, 1st Army Corps:- |
07/09/2017 |
Capt Charles Newell |
01912 |
07/09/2017 |
Capt Charles Newell |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd June 1915: An Appeal to Shirkers � North Irishman�s Letter � Henry �Harry� Newell (brother of Captain Charles Newell) |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles McAnaw Kelly |
Corporal Edward McAnaw, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, writing from Flanders to his wife at in Barrack Street, Dungannon states his brother Charles had been killed in action. He saw him properly buried in the same graveyard as the late Lord Northland � indeed, the head of both graves met together. |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles McAnaw Kelly |
01911 |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles McAnaw Kelly |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd June 1915: |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles O'Neill |
Private Charles O'Neill was killed in action on the first day of Battle of the Somme on Saturday 1st July 1916. |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles O'Neill |
Corporal John Johnston, 2nd Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers, wrote home to Dungannon last week stating that Private Frizell (his chum when he enlisted) has been killed, and Private O�Neill, Ann Street, Dungannon, is missing, and Private Cunningham killed. It has since been ascertained however, that O�Neill is in hospital at Ramsgate, and that Cunningham is also in hospital with a wounded arm. |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles O'Neill |
01910 |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. Charles O'Neill |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd June 1915: |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. John Gray |
�We advanced in the face of as terrible an artillery fire and Maxim gun fire as any regiment was ever subjected to in this war. Lord Caledon�s brother, who is one of our officers, was wounded, and I got the back of my frock torn off by a maxim bullet when we were digging ourselves in under a perfect hail of missiles.� |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. John Gray |
Constable John Gray, Springfield Road Barracks, Belfast, whose death was reported last week, was the eldest son of Mr John W Gray, a farmer residing at Donnydeade near Dungannon. He was called up on the reserve of the Irish Guards. A fellow Guardsman and former police constable, D Hegarty, who is a native of Charlemont, has now written to Constable Bookless, R.I.C., Moy, stating that Gray was killed by shrapnel within six yards of the parapet of a German trench. He also mentions that Constable Kennedy, who had been stationed in Loughgall, was killed on the same day, and continues:- |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. John Gray |
01909 |
07/09/2017 |
Pte. John Gray |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd June 1915: |
06/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
�I suppose you have heard that the Inniskillings gave the Germans a bit of the steel during the past few days. It was a grand sight to see our fellows leave what had been their winter home and drive the enemy out of theirs. Of course, it meant the loss of some brave men, but when the Germans saw the steel, it was enough for them. I was actually talking to young Dickson (Private W R Dickson, a Dungannon man) when he fell struck by a shell, which passed on and burst about 200 yards away, so you can see I had some narrow escapes. Or bishop told us the following Sunday that he had witnessed the battle, and he had never imagined that human beings could live through it, but God have mercy on me, and I did not get a scratch. We lost our machine gun officer and all our men, so that I am now a full corporal, having got the additional stripe on the battlefield.� |
06/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
A letter was received in Dungannon on Saturday from Corporal John Johnston, Machine Gun Section, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, in which he states, in connection with the Battle of Festubert:- |
06/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
01908 |
06/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd June 1915: How Private Dickson was Killed - Letter from Corporal Johnston |
06/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
The CWGC record Private William Richard Dickson as the son of Richard and Mary Jane Dickson, of Ballysaggart, Dungannon, County Tyrone. |
06/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
Mr Richard Dickson, Lisnahull, Dungannon, has received official confirmation from the War Office on Monday that his son, Private William Richard Dickson, of the 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, was killed in action in France on 16th May. It will be remembered that Lance Corporal McIntyre, who was wounded in heavy fighting at Festubert on that day, stating in a letter to his mother, which was published in last week�s Courier, that he saw Private Dickson being killed, and it is believed that it was at Festubert that Private Dickson fell., though no place is mentioned by the War Office. Private Dickson was a reservist, and had been at the front for some seven or eight months. He was a member of Dungannon Battalion of the U.V.F. and was very popular with all classes and creeds. The Dead March in Saul was rendered on the organ in St Anne's Parish Church, Dungannon, at the conclusion of the Sunday morning service as a mark of respect for the memory of two members of the congregation belonging to the 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who had laid down their lives for the Empire in France on the 15th and 16th May. Rev T J McEndoo, M.A., before entering upon his sermon, referred to the death in action of Corporal H V S Donaldson, son of Sergeant N Donaldson, R.I.C., Dungannon, and said on the previous Sunday they had mourned for the death of Private W R Dickson, Lisnahull. |
06/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
01907 |
06/09/2017 |
Pte. William Richard Dickson |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 3rd June 1915: Dungannon Man Killed |
05/09/2017 |
Pte. James Watson Hetherington |
The following casualties in the Canadians are officially reported:- 7th Battalion, Private James Watson Hetherington, native of Moy. |
05/09/2017 |
Pte. James Watson Hetherington |
01906 |
05/09/2017 |
Pte. James Watson Hetherington |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 27th May 1915: |
05/09/2017 |
Pte. William McCollum |
01903 |
05/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Thomas Taylor |
A pathetic incident arising out of the death of Captain the Hon. Viscount Northland, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, who was killed in action at La Bassee on 1st February, is mentioned in letters just received from Corporal John Johnston, machine-gun section of the 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and Private Robert Taylor, of the same battalion. They had been former section leaders in the Dungannon U.V.F., of which Lord Northland had been the popular commanding officer, and they mention in their letters that they had sought out his grave in a French cemetery near La Bassee and had planted flowers on it. |
05/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Thomas Taylor |
01905 |
05/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Thomas Taylor |
From the Tyrone Courier dated 25th March 1915: |
04/09/2017 |
Pte. Robert Oliver Yule |
01904 |
04/09/2017 |
Pte. William Archer |
01902 |
04/09/2017 |
Pte. Andrew Conlan |
The CWGC record Private Andrew Conlan as the son of Patrick and Sarah Conlan of Donaghmore, County Tyrone. He is also recorded as the husband of Teresa Conlan of 75 Alexander Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. |
04/09/2017 |
Pte. Andrew Conlan |
Private Andrew Conlan is buried in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France. His inscription simply reads R.I.P. |
04/09/2017 |
Pte. Andrew Conlan |
01901 |
04/09/2017 |
L/Corp Henry Watt |
Lance Corporal Henry Watt is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France. |
04/09/2017 |
L/Corp Henry Watt |
01900 |
04/09/2017 |
Pte. David Glass |
The CWGC record Private D Glass as the brother of Wilson Glass, of Park Road, Dungannon, County Tyrone. |
04/09/2017 |
Pte. David Glass |
Private David Glass is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France. |
04/09/2017 |
Pte. David Glass |
01899 |
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