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A collection of over 40 writers and their work from World War 1 and the years that followed.

11/11. Happy Armistice Day!

This is by no means a guide so much as it is recommendations and selections from my reading list, but I hope it can interest others in some extraordinary or important lives. Enjoy!

POETRY

Richard Aldington (1892-1962)

British. 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Sussex Regiment.

Themes: Callousness, Apathy, Sound, Myth & History, Art

War and Love 1915-1918 (1919)

"Trench Idyll"

"In The Trenches"

"Apathy"

"Soliloquy I" & "Soliloquy II"

Exile and Other Poems (1923)

“Eumenides”

“At a Gate by the Way”

Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)

British. 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Sussex Regiment.

Field: Ypres, Somme, Passchendaele

Themes: Survivor's Guilt, Isolation, Nature, Post-War Reflection

The Waggoner (1920)

"The Estrangement"

The Shepherd and Other Poems of Peace and War (1922)

"11th R.S.R."

"Reunion in War"

"The Troubled Spirit"

"War Autobiography: Written in Illness"

"Third Ypres: A Reminiscence"

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

British. Sub-lieutenant, British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, but died of sepsis before reaching Gallipoli.

Themes: Colonialism, Memory & Death

1914 and Other Poems (1915)

"1914"

Robert Graves (1895-1985)

British. Captain, Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Field: Somme, but also in a POW and Garrison camp iirc.

Themes: Camaraderie, Grief, Flippancy/Humor, Personal Change

Faeries and Fusiliers (1919)

The Pier-Glass (1921)

"Lost Love"

Collected Poems 1955 (1955)

"Recalling war"

Frederic Manning (1882-1935)

Australian & British. Private, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Lance Corporal, 7th Battalion. 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Irish Regiment.

Field: The Somme, Ancre

Themes: Collective identity, Numbness, Individuality, Ritual as a coping method, Myth

Eidola (1917)

"αυτάρκεια"

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

British. 2nd Lieutenant, Manchester Regiment.Also see: The Hydra (1917-1918), the Craiglockhart War Hospital magazine.

Field: Northern France

Themes: Inhumanity, Protest, Disgust & Pity

Poems (1921)

“Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”

“Mental Cases”

“Dulce et Decorum Est”

"S.I.W" (Self-Inflicted Wound)

“Wild With All Regrets”

Poems of Wilfred Owen (1931)

“The Unreturning”

The Complete Poems and Fragments (1984)

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)

British (also Jewish!). Private, 12th Bantam Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, then South Lancashire Regiment, then King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, then King's Own Royal Regiment.

Also see: Joseph Cohen Collection of Rosenberg documents and artifacts

Field: Arras

Themes: Heroism, Loathing, Confusion

Poems (1922)

"Significance"

"The Immortals"

Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (2015)

Not free, but like the one for Wilfred Owen, I recommend these collections since they're super cheap (like $3) and mostly comprehensive even if there are some formatting errors.

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

British. 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Also see: A Soldier's Declaration.

Field: The Somme, Arras

Themes: Activism, Self-Expression, Nature, Leadership, Camaraderie, Grief

The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1918)

“The Kiss”

“The Last Meeting”

Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)

"Suicide in the Trenches" (sometimes typo'd, like in Collected Poems, as "Suicide in Trenches")

"Repression of War Experience"

"The Dream"

A Suppressed Poem (1918) (alternative/full text)

War Poems (1919)

"Everyone Sang"

Picture-Show (1920)

"Concert Party"

"Phantom" (removed from Collected Poems in 1961)

"Aftermath"

Vigils (1936)

"War Experience"

"Revisitation"

The Collected Poems 1908-1956 (1961)

Contains text edits and revisions of previous work.

MEMOIR

Will R. Bird (1891-1984)

Canadian. 42nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders of Canada.

Field: France and Belgium

Also see: his bibliography. His work seems to have been popular, but is now exceedingly rare other than in some recent reprints.

And We Go On (1930)

Reissued as Ghosts Have Warm Hands (1968) which removes several anecdotes--and in particular, removes many instances of the ghost of his brother (who often appears to guide him after dying before Bird enlisted).

Thirteen Years After: The Story of the Old Front Revisited (1931)

Funded by Maclean's Magazine, Bird returned to France and wrote a series of reflections.

The Communication Trench: Anecdotes & Statistics from the Great War, 1914-1918 (1933)

A Soldier's Place: the War stories of Will R. Bird (2018)

Fifteen anecdotes from various war-time and post-war publications.

Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)

Undertone of War (1928)

Philip Gibbs (1877-1962)

British. Extraordinarily popular war journalist and later war correspondent.

Heavily censored in publications like the Daily Telegraph and Daily Chronicle.

Field: Western Front

The Soul of the War (1915)

From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 (1918)

Reissued as The Struggle in Flanders on the Western Front, 1917 (1919)

The Way to Victory: Vol 1: The Menace and Vol 2: The Repulse (1919)

Wounded Souls (1920)

Now It Can Be Told (1920)

US title: The Realities of War

More That Must Be Told (1921)

Robert Graves (1895-1985)

Goodbye to All That (1929)

Censored (1929), Revised (1957), and I think Uncensored (2014)

Also a personal memoir--the first few chapters detail his childhood and discuss homosexuality.

Arnold Gyde (1894-1959)

British. Captain, 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment.

Field: Le Havre, Mons, Aisne

Contemptable (1916) as Casualty

Part of the Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War series

T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)

British. Archeologist but mostly a military informant.

Field: Arab Revolt, Palestine

Themes: Isolation, Brotherhood

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)

Abridged "subscribers" edition subtitled with A Triumph (1926), Further abridged as Revolt in the Desert (1927), Unabridged as "The Oxford Text" (1997)

Also see: With Lawrence in Arabia (1924) by Lowell Thomas

Thomas was a war correspondent for the US, and who filmed and photographed Palestine and Lawrence and created the media boom surrounding the two.

Also see: Lawrence and the Arabs (1927) by Robert Graves

This book was initially panned for showing Lawrence as more of a flawed person than England's glorious war hero.

Edward C. Lukens

American. Lieutenant, 320th Infantry 80th Division.

Field: Meuse-Argonne

A Blue Ridge Memoir (1922)

Includes an afterword titled “The Last Drive and Death of Major G. H. H. Emory” by E. McClure Rouzer

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Journey from Obscurity: Wilfred Owen, 1893-1918 (1963-1965) by Harold Owen

Published in three volumes: Childhood, Youth, and War

E. M. Roberts

American. Lieutenant, RAF.

A Flying Fighter: An American Above the Lines in France (1918)

I’m not finding much on this book atm, but I remember finding some articles after I had read the book that mentioned much of it was embellished.

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Siegfried's Journey, 1916-1920 (1945)

Discusses the range of his life on leave or otherwise away from the battlefield, along with his post-war travels and struggles. For his more military memoirs, see the Sherston Trilogy below.

Also see: Lady Ottoline's Album (1976)

included entirely bc there's a cute pics of him (pg 66-67,90-93) but also bc there's a lot of cool ppl in it (also Robert Graves 68, Edmund Blunden 69)

Diaries:

Scans of 1915-1922, 1924-1927, 1931-1932: Sassoon Journals @ Cambridge

Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1915-1918 (1983)

Highlights: 27 May 1916. 13 July 1916. 23 April 1917. 17 April 1918. 27 April 1918. 9 May 1918. 19 December 1917.

Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1920-1922 (1981)

Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1923-1925 (1985)

FICTIONAL MEMOIR

Giving a third person narrator one's trauma or life allows the writer to view those events in a new light–and also partially absolve themselves from ownership of their actions and feelings. Thus, it was super popular to deflect the shame of trauma.

Richard Aldington (1892-1962)

Death of a Hero (1929)

Uncensored in two volumes (1930), in one volume (1965) and (1984)

Roads to Glory (1930)

Short stories

Hervey Allen (1889-1949)

American. Lieutenant, 111th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Division

Field: Marne, Aisne, Château-Theirrey

Toward the Flame (1926) (limited preview)

Henri Barbusse (1873-1935)

French. Western Front. Anti-war.

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (1916)

One of the first WWI novels published. Formative work for Sassoon, but also popular with Owen iirc.

Larry Barretto (1890-1972)

American. Ambulance driver in France and Belgium.

A Conqueror Passes (1925)

The soldier protagonist swiftly falls into depression upon returning to civilian life, so he abandons everything to return to France. Where he hopes to return to the mental occupation of service, he finds instead that the world has moved on without him.

James Norman Hall (1887-1951)

American. Posing as a Canadian: Royal Fusiliers. After being discovered, Lafayette Escadrille and Lafayette Flying Corps, then Captain of US Army Air Service. German POW for several months.

Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in the British Army(1916)

Describes the Battle of Loos during his time as a machine gunner with the Royal Fusiliers.

High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France (1918)

Also see: The Lafayette Flying Corps Vol 1 and Vol 2 (1920), a history written with fellow pilot Charles Bernard Nordhoff.

Also see: Falcons of France (1929), another memoir written with Charles Bernard Nordhoff.

John Dos Passos (1896-1970)

American. Ambulance Driver in France (Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps) & Italy (American Red Cross)

One Man’s Initiation: 1917 (1920)

Reissued as First Encounter (1945)

Three Soldiers (1921)

Frederic Manning (1882-1935)

The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916 (1929) as Private 19022

Uncensored in two volumes

Censored edition is Her Privates We (1929), and Uncensored (2014)

Primarily depicts the mundane life of a private. A deserter crops up throughout the novel for commentary on the intersection of mental illness and perceived cowardice. The chapters on the trenches are extraordinary imo, and it's a great look at the unsensational life of billets and drill that most accounts leave out.

Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887-1947)

American. Ambulance driver, then Lafayette Flying Corps, then Lieutenant of US Army Air Service

The Fledgling (1919)

Series of letters (and dairy entries?)

Also see: The Lafayette Flying Corps Vol 1 and Vol 2 (1920), a history written with fellow pilot James Norman Hall.

Also see: Falcons of France (1929), another memoir written with James Norman Hall.

Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970)

German. 2nd Guards Reserve Division, then 15th Reserve Infantry Regiment, 2nd Company, Engineer Platoon Bethe.

Field: Hem-Lenglet Torhout and Houthulst.

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

The Road Back (1931) (limited preview)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

The Sherston trilogy follows his entire service, although purged of anything literary or concerning his family. He also changed the names of almost everyone in it. The third book does a great job confronting the trauma he swears he doesn't have up until the last couple pages.

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928) Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) Sherston's Progress (1936)

FICTION

More on the Internet Archive

Hervey Allen (1889-1949)

It Was Like This: Two Stories of the Great War (1940)

Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919)

The Confessions of a Little Man During Great Days (1917

Russian. Account of a fictional banker in St. Petersburg struggling through war shortages and family strife. Anti-war.

E. F. Benson (1867-1940)

British. Archeologist, Greek Scholar, Worked in Cairo with T. E. Lawrence. also hes gay

Up and Down (1918)

An at-home drama which begins pre-war and descends into featuring the relationship of letters between home and the front.

Dodo Wonders-- (1921)

Sequel to Dodo: A Detail of the Day (1893) Dodo’s Daughter (1913) and Dodo the Second (1914) social dramas.

Will R. Bird (1891-1984)

Private Timothy Fergus Clancy (1930)

John Buchan (1875-1940)

Scottish. Popular novelist, Writer for the Propaganda Bureau, Director of Intelligence, and Lieutenant of Intelligence Corps

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)

First in the Richard Hannay series, suspense spy novels meant to sensationalize war intrigue and German barbarism.

Also see: Nelson's History of the War, a serial which began in 1915 to become a 24-volume account of censored and pro-Allies Great War history.

Wilfrid Heighington (1897-1945)

Canadian. Lieutenant, 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade

Field: The Somme, Vimy Ridge

The Cannon’s Mouth (1943)

Edward Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)

Anglo-Irish. Captain, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Also participated in the Easter Uprising. Traveled to Ploegsteert, St-Emilie, the Somme, and Bourlon Wood as work for the MI7 (b) creating propaganda.

Tales of War (1918) & Unhappy Far-Off Things (1919)

Short stories largely created as propaganda and published in various papers before being collected in book form.

Also see: Patches of Sunlight (1938), his autobiography.

Rebecca West (1892-1983)

The Return of the Soldier (1918)

A rather fanciful novel of a woman confronting her cousin soldier returning home with amnesia, having forgotten the past 15 years of his life from shell-shock.

LETTERS

T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)

I'm more familiar with Lawrence's post-war relationship with mental illness, which seems to be rooted in his tendency for self-reproach. He consistently bemoans his difference from the others, and details his reliance on military companionship for connections.

Highlights: To Lionel Curtis, 19/3/23. To Robert Graves, 12/11/22. To Lionel Curtis, 14/4/23.

Also published in: Lawrence, T. E., and Garnet, David. The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939.

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Owen defends himself at every opportunity to eliminate the possibility that his distress is from cowardice, so while his testimony is valuable for its real-time recording, it's more difficult to pick out such violent and clear instances of trauma compared to other writers.

Also see: Uncensoring Owen Project

Highlights: To Susan Owen, 16/1/17. To Susan Owen, 4/2/17. To Susan Owen, 18/3/17 (which describes The Sentry). To Susan Owen, 6 (or 8)/4/17. To Susan Owen, 1/5/17. To Mary Owen, 8/5/17. To Siegfried Sassoon, 5/11/17. To Susan Owen, 6/17. To Susan Owen, 31/12/17. To Susan Owen, 4 (or 5)/10/19. To Siegfried Sassoon, 10/10/18.

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Siegfried Sassoon letters to Max Beerbohm : with a few answers (1986)

Vera Brittain (1893-1970)

& Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Geoffrey Thurlow, Victor Nicholson

Letters From A Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends (1998)

PLAYS

R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975)

British. East Surrey Regiment

Field: Vimy Ridge, Loose, Passchendaele

Journey's End (1929)

Also novelized (1930) with Vernon Bartlett

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)

Scottish. Propagandist. Also see: famous author propagandists

Echoes of the War (1918)

Four humorously written yet hard-hitting plays concerning the war, particularly interpersonal relationships at home. More like satire than jingoism tbh.

MEDICAL ESSAYS

Shell-shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in 589 Case Histories (1919) by E. E. Southard (ableist af but these case studies are an extraordinary insight into the breadth of symptoms and their treatment. highly recommended.)

War Neuroses and Shell Shock (1919) by F.W. Mott

Hysterical Disorders of Warfare (1918) by Lewis Yealland

Army Report of The War Office Committee of Enquiry into Shell Shock (1922)

Shell Shock and Its Lessons (1918) by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, Tom Hatherley Pear

Repression of War Experience (1917) by W.H.R. Rivers

Conflict and Dream (1924) by W.H.R Rivers

Instinct and the Unconscious (1924) by W.H.R Rivers

MEDICAL ACCOUNTS

Harold Barclay (1872-1922)

American. Captain, American Expeditionary Forces. Roosevelt Hospital Unit, then 42nd Division.

Field: Château-Thierry, St.-Mihiel

A Doctor in France, 1917-1919 (1923)

His diary--also published after his death.

Vera Brittain (1893-1970)

Testament of Youth (1933)

Also see: Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth (2014) for its extra chapter on Edward Brittain and his oft-discussed death (spoiler: they confirmed he was gay).

Ellen La Motte (1873–1961)

The Backwash of War (1916)

American. A collection of fourteen stories from the hospitals of France.

Helen Zenna Smith/Evadne Price (1888-1985)

Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War (1930) (limited preview)

Written in the style of Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front using Winifred Constance Young, an actual ambulance driver as inspiration.

Sequels: Women of the Aftermath/One Woman’s Freedom (1931), Shadow Women (1932), Luxury Ladies (1933), They Lived With Me (1934)

May Sinclair/Mary Amelia St. Clair (1863-1946)

British. WSPU and WWSL member/Suffragette. Founding supporter of the Medico-Psychological Clinic in London, Munro Ambulance Corps in Flanders for a few weeks.

A Journal of Impressions in Belgium (1915)

OTHER ACCOUNTS

A. T. Fitzroy/Rose Allatini (1890-1980)

Despised and Rejected (1918)

Austrian-British. A novel following members of the CO and Pacifist movement. also v gay

Father Bernard Carey (1865-1932)

Leaves from the Diary of a Catholic Chaplain in the Great World War

(1920)

Irish. A chaplain's memoir of Egypt and East Africa, and the religious and racial intolerance in the military.

Philip Gibbs (1877-1962)

Germans on the Somme (1917)

John Masefield (1878-1967)

British. Poet Laureate. Briefly a Red Cross orderly, then propogandist with the Department of Information.

Gallipoli (1915)

Account of the campaign's failure to counteract anti-German propaganda in the US.

The Old Front Line (1918)

Eyewitness account of the Somme. Revisited and further completed in Battle of the Somme (1919)

The War and the Future (1918)

Also see: John Masefield's Letters from the Front, 1915-1917 (1985)

Also see: His poem “August 1914″

William Le Roy Stidger (1885-1949)

American. YMCA Pastor working with the AEF.

Soldier Silhouettes on our Front (1918) & Star Dust From The Dugouts (1919)

Stories of Christian faith through portraits of various soldiers.

Stanley Washburn (1878-1950)

American. Correspondent of the London Times in Russia.

Field Notes From the Russian Front (1915) The Russian Campaign: April to August 1915 (1916) Victory In Defeat - The Agony Of Warsaw And The Russian Retreat (1916) Field Notes From the Russian Front (1917)

BLOGS & PROJECTS

Siegfried Sassoon resources

Cambridge Sassoon Project Blog

T. E. Lawrence texts and resources

Life timelines for several poets, like Sassoon and Owen

War Poets Association

Oxford War Poetry Digital Archive

List of additional war poets

WWI fiction resource

WWI timeline and artifacts resource

Today in WWI with Literary and Historical contexts

List of WWI authors and dust jackets

Additional WWI writers

Great War Theatre

Essay on American pilots in other armies

#writing #siegfried sassoon #wwi literature #tbh making this thing #made me want to make a reading blog #like some of the project blogs linked #anyway this thing is p severely lacking in stuff from Not The Western Front #and lord knows i want to find more stuff on the eastern front #so ill likely update this when i find some good ones #i put in brooke bc his poetry is genuinely good #but i neglected other early poets #(i usually find women poets publishing early tbh)#bc their work just..isnt v enjoyable or written v well #or just blatant uninspired jingoism #like. i included buchan and some others bc its important and interesting stuff #but Defeating The Purposefully Vague Evil Beast For Christ And Goodness #gets real old real quick when it isnt well done #anyway theres my meta lmk if u have any questions #i hope all the links work #brianna babbles

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bantarleton · 5 years ago

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Hey random idea, describe your perfect 18th century military force, troop number and types that sort of thing. That fantasy army you'd love to command.

Well, if I had to take a pre-prepared army I’d choose either Cumberland’s at Culloden (very strong force and it was set up in the absolute archetype of 18th century European combat) or Cornwallis’s at Camden (smaller but veteran and super aggressive).

If I was making something from scratch I’d either have a Seven Years War army, say 1758, consisting of;

1st Foot (Royal Scots)

4th Foot (King’s Own)

18th Foot (Royal Irish)

20th Foot

21st Foot (Royal North British Fusiliers)

23rd Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers)

25th Foot

26th Foot

42nd Foot (Black Watch)

1st, 2nd and 3rd Foot Guards

7th (Inniskilling) Dragoons

17th Light Dragoons

The Royal Regiment of Dragoons

Royal Artillery detachment consisting of, say, a dozen 12-pounders, another dozen 6-pounders to be used as battalion guns, half a dozen 8-inch howitzers and five-and-a-half-inch mortars.

If it was an American Revolution army, say 1777, I’d want.

2 composite grenadier battalions

2 composite light infantry battalions

17th Foot

23rd Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers)

33rd Foot

42nd Foot (Black Watch)

71st Foot (Fraser’s Highlanders)

80th Foot (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers)

Hessian Grenadier Regiment von Rall

Hessian musketeer regiment von Bose

Hessian Fusilier regiment von Knyphausen

A company of jaegers

17th Light Dragoons

British Legion

Queen’s Rangers

King’s Royal Regiment of New York

The Volunteers of Ireland

Butler’s Rangers/some Loyalist volunteers

A few hundred Mohawks.

A Royal Artillery detachment, half a dozen 6-pounders, half a dozen 3-pounders, four howitzers.

I don’t ask for much...

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bigwizzgoldfinger-blog · 5 years ago

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St Enoch Presbyterian Church W.W.1 war memorial and roll of honour. Duncairn, Belfast

All information is provided in good faith but, on occasions errors may occur. Should this be the case, if new information can be verified please supply it to the author and corrections will then be made.

Erected by this congregation in honour of those who Volunteered in the Great War 1914-1918

These all died.

Thomas Rainey AGNEW. Stoker 1st Class SS/113435, Royal Navy on HMS Vangard. Born 1892 to Samuel and Dorothy Agnew, of 138, Spamount Street., Belfast. Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent.

Robert BOYD. Rifleman 582, 10th Royal Irish Rifles. Born 1879 to Mrs. Jeannie Boyd of 17 India Street, Belfast. Killed in action 1 July 1916 aged 37 years. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

William Hatchell BOYD. 2nd Lieutenant, 9th Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Born 1887 to the Rev. Samuel T. Boyd, B.A., and Mrs. Boyd, of Dublin. Killed in action 9 September 1916 aged 29 years. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

John BOYLAN. Private 12558, 15th Royal Irish Rifles. Born 1898 to John and Annie Boylan, of 166, Alexandra Park Avenue, Belfast later of 23 Annadale Street, Belfast. Killed in action 1 July 1916 aged 20 years. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Hugh BROWN. 2nd Lieutenant, 6th attached 1st Royal Irish Rifles. Killed in action 31 July 1917. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

John Brown. Royal Irish Rifles. Unable to find the correct record for this person recorded with the CWGC

James CAMERON (Military Medal). Sergeant 160496, 50th Canadian Infantry. Born 1892 to James and Sarah Cameron, of 52, Brookhill Avenue, Antrim Road, Belfast, Ireland. Formerly of Ballymena, Co. Antrim. Died 5 June 1917 aged 25 years. At rest in Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

William CARLISLE. Rifleman 11211, 1st Royal Irish Rifles. Husband of Elizabeth Carlisle, of 14, Court Street, Belfast, Ireland. Killed in action 23 October 1916, aged 24 years. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

John CARSON Rifleman 24/991 2.3rd New Zealand Rifles. Killed in action 15 October 1917. At rest in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Jack CRICHTON Lance Corporal, (Private) 642640, 4th Canadian Infantry. Died of wounds 5 July 1917 Downview Avenue, Belfast. At rest in La Targette Britisg Cemetery, Neuville-Sain- Vaast, France

William CLARKE. Private 18818, 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Only son of Robert And Agnes Clarke of 40 Christopher Street, Belfast. Killed in action 3 July 1916 aged 22 years. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

James Wilson CORDNER. (Military Cross) Lieutenant 2nd Royal Irish Rifles. The Manse, Drumbo. Killed in action 16 April 1918. At rest in Minty Farm, Cemetery, Belgium. He was onetime assistant minister at St. Enoch’s Presbyterian Church, Belfast and became a minister in the United Free Church in Lisburn. London Gazette dated 3 August 1915. Royal Irish Rifles. The undermentioned to be temporary Second Lieutenants James Cordner. Dated 7th June, 1915. Edinburgh Gazette dated 22 July 1918. Military Cross Citation. T./Lt. James Wilson Cordner. Royal Irish Rifles. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty while in charge of a wiring party. He wired 500 yards of newly captured trenches in daylight in full view of the enemy and under heavy fire. His coolness and determination were an inspiration to his men. At rest in Minty Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

Hampton CRAWFORD. Corporal, (Private) 25239, 9th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Son of Samuel and Mary Ann Crawford of 3 Trinity Street, Belfast. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. CWGC have his rank as Private

David FERGUSON. 14599, 9th Royal Irish Rifles. Killed in action at the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. At rest in Serre Road Cemetery No 2, Somme, France.

Frederick George FRENCH. Private 874792, 27th Canadians. Son of Thomas and Anne Jane French of 26 Cumberland Street, Belfast. Killed in action 10 April 1917 aged 31 years. At rest in Nine Elms Military Cemetery, Thelus, France.

Stewart FULTON. U S National Guards ?. Residing with his parents at 11 Rosewood Street, Belfast. Killed in action. (No further information available).

Frederick William GIRVAN. Captain, 8th Devonshire Regiment. Son of Robert and Isabella Girvan of 115 Cavehill Road, Belfast. Later of 24 Easton Gardens. Killed in action 26 October 1917 aged 24 years. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial, Belgium.

R GRIBBEN. The CWGC have only two R Cribben’s (no varients)

Robert GRIBBEN. Stoker 1879T, Royal Naval Reserve of HMS Queen Mary. Son of William and Eliza Gribben, of Larne; husband of Maggie Gribben, of Larne, Co. Antrim. Killed at sea 31 May 1916 aged 39 years. Commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire.

Robert GRIBBEN. Rifleman 23/1393, 1/3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade. Son of James Gribben, of The Race Course, Lower Broughshane, Ballymena, Co. Antrim. Died 17 June 1917 aged 28 years. At rest in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord France.

Archibald McMillan HANNA. 15th Royal Irish Rifles. Residing at 27 Court Street, Belfast. Killed in action 1 July 1916. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Charles HANNA. Private 745394 2nd Canadian Infantry. Son of William and Catherine Hannah. Killed in action 6 November 1917. At rest in Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery, Belgium.

Arthur HEENAN. Private 8966, 1st Royal Irish Rifles. Son of John and Mary Jane of 8 Suir Street, Belfast. Killed in action 9 May 1915 aged 26 years. Commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

John KELLY. Lance Corporal, (Private) 10489 6th Royal Irish Rifles. Residing at 278 Crumlin Road, Belfast. Killed in action 10 August 1915. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey including Gallipoli.

William John LAVERTY. Rifleman 949, 1st Garrison Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Born at Drumagh, Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland. Husband of Minnie Ann Laverty, of 36, Willow Bank Gardens, Antrim Rd., Belfast, Northern Ireland. Died in India 10 November 1916 aged 47 years. At rest in Cawnpore Cantonment New Cemetery, India.

Thomas Edwin LOWRY. Lance Corporal, 10/15177, 10th Royal Irish Rifles. Husband of Minnie Lowry, of 33, Matlock Street, Belfast, Ireland. Died 12 June 1918 aged 23 years. Laid to rest as Thomas Edward Lowry 15 June 1918 Plot P Grave 300 at the Belfast City Cemetery. His wife is also interred in the grave and she is named as Mary Ann.

James MURPHY. Sergeant 5/12045, 5th Royal Irish Fusiliers. Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Murphy, of 23, Jennymount Terrace, York Road, Belfast. Later of 96 Henry Street, Belfast. Killed in action 10 March 1918 aged 23 years. At rest in Jerusalem War Cemetery, Palestine including Gaza.

Alfred McCLELLAND. 2nd Lieutenant, 5th Royal Irish Rifles. Son of James and Charlotte Miriam McClelland of 34 Shore Road, Duncairn, Belfast. 1911 his occupation was an office apprentice. At the time of his death his parents were residing at 105 Cavehill Road, Belfast. Died of wounds 13 October 1917 aged 24 years. At rest in trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenerck, Nord France.

Hugh Beggs McCLURE. Sapper 64264 150th Field Coy, Royal Engineers. Born 17 February 1885 at Mead street, Larne to Thomas Beggs and Margaret Jane Gleghorn McClure, nee Meekin the residence of his parents. They later resided at 8 Newington Street, Belfast, Ireland Husband of Maud, nee McClure of 63 Everton Street, Belfast. He was married on the 13 April 1911 at Magheramore Presbyterian Church, County Antrim. His wife died at Maternity Hospital in Belfast 9 October 1915 of heart failure and septicaemia after child birth. His son Lorrimer Drummond Mclure died aged 5 weeks at his grandparents Robert and Ellen McClure residence 197 Crumlin Road, Belfast on the 28 October 1915. On the 11 February 1915 aged 29 years he joined the Royal Engineers and then was posted to the R.E. Depot, Chatham, civilian occupation painter. On the 30 November 1915 he was posted to France. He was killed in action 6 October 1916 aged 30 years. His effects went to his father in law Robert McClure, retired compositor. At rest in Pond Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

Two of his brothers were also serving in the war.

James McClure, married, was serving as Sapper 89976, 145 Army Troops Coy, Royal Engineers Some notes from James’s army record. Born 19 October 1880 at Inver, Larne to Thomas and Margaret Jane Gleghorn McClure, nee McMeekin. He enlisted at into the Royal Engineers at Larne and joined at Londonderry as Sapper 7156 on the 24 November 1900 aged 20 years, occupation painter. He married Elizabeth Jane McClean at St Michael the Archangel, Aldershot, Surrey on the 23 April 1904. He was aged 24 years and stationed at Stanhope Lines, Aldershot. His wife was aged 29 and she resided at Alexander Road, Aldershot. At some time, his wife died and he remarried in 1913 to Tabitha Hunt. On the 23 November 1912 he was discharged from the army on the termination of the 1st period of engagement. No other records to show when he was called to the colours. His birth certificate show he was registered as James. When he remarried he used the name of Jams McMeekin McClure

Robert was Born 8 December 1890 to Thomas Beggs McClure and Margaret Jane Gleghorn McClure nee McMeekin of Back Road, Larne. His father was a house painter. Serving as Private 18229 12th Central Antrim Regiment, Royal Irish Rifles, Ulster Division at Masters Stores, Base Depot, Le Havre, France. Both demobilized to Class Z Army Reserve Some notes from Robert’s army record. He joined up at Larne, County Antrim 15 September 1914 aged 24 years and 9 months, occupation, painter. He was posted the same day to Clandeboye Estate Army Training Camp, near Bangor, County Down. His parents Thomas Beggs and Margaret McClure of 8 Newington Street, Belfast were his next of kin. He embarked to join the BEF in France 15 September 1914 and left 18 January 1919, having one period of leave. On the 16 February 1919 he was demobilized at Dublin to his residence at 5 Newington Avenue, Belfast after serving 4 years and 155 days. On the 24 October 1927 he wrote to the army requesting a character reference for employment purposes. His residence at that time was 21 Frampton Street, Strandtown, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Robert Harper McELRATH. Private 25459, 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Born 1886 to James and Mary McElrath, of "Mill Farm", County, Antrim. Died 21 October 1918 aged 32 years. At rest in Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Belgium.

William McGOOKIN. Private 17806, 9th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Son of William and Rachel McGookin, of Black Hill, Cookstown, County Tyrone. Killed in action 1 July 1916 aged 19 years. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

James Bailie McQUOID. Corporal 9681, 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Son of William and Elizabeth McQuoid, of 94, Chief Street, Belfast. At rest in Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Turkey including Gallipoli.

David NELSON. Private 420210, 43rd Canadian Infantry. Born in Belfast on the 30 July 1880 to Samuel and Annie McDowell Nelson of 32, Marsden Gardens, Cavehill Road, Belfast, Ireland, husband of Margaret who later re-married to Mr Kelly. Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belfast.

Samuel PATTON. Private 3422, 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Born in the Shankill area of Belfast. Killed in action 16 May 1915. His grandmother Anne M was granted a war gratuity 17 September 1917, revised 1 October 1919. Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France.

William PATTON. Private 17460 Durham Light Infantry. Son of John Patton of 53 Cambrai Street, Belfast. Killed in action 7 July 1917 aged 38 years. At rest in Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, Belgium.

Paul Gilchrist POLLOCK. Lance Corporal 15780, 14th Royal Irish Rifles. Son of John and Marion J.F. Pollock, of Duncairn, Antrim. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916 aged 20 years. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

John Singleton Henry ROBINSON. Captain, 13th attached to 12th Welsh Regiment Born in Newtown Ards, County Down, Ireland. Killed in action 24 September 1918. At rest in Marteville Communal Cemetery, Attilly, France

Joseph ROY. Private 13457, 15th Royal Irish Rifles. Son of John. 1901 residing with his father and siblings at 27 Christopher Street, Belfast. 1911 residing at the home of his married sister Mary and her husband George French ay 34 Ballycastle Street, Belfast. Died 25 June 1918. His brother Robert and sister Mary French were both granted a war gratuity 13 September 1919. At rest in Sarralbe Military Cemetery, Moselle France.

Thomas SILLARS. Lance Corporal 17/1301, 8th Royal Irish Rifles. Born 27 November 1888 to John and Anne Jane Sillars, nee Smith at 158 Argyle Street, Belfast. Husband of Annie Victoria Sillars, nee Black of 3, Ballyclare Street, Belfast. Died 2 July 1916. His widow was granted a war gratuity 1 August 1917 revised 15 November 1919. At rest in Grandcourt Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, Somme, France.

Thomas Arnold STEAD. Driver 785526, A Battery, 312th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Son of Sidney and Edith Alice Stead, of 30, Jarrow Road, Sharrow, Sheffield. Died 29 September 1918 aged 20 years. At rest in Flesquieres Hill British Cemetery, Nord, France.

Robert James THOMPSON. Rifleman 3408, 15th Royal Irish Rifles. Son of James and Mary Ann of 35 Hanover Street, Belfast. Killed in action 22 November 1917 aged 21 years. Commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord France.

John Arthur TREW. Rifleman 689, 12th Royal Irish Rifles. Born 17 April 1895 to Arthur and Annie Trew, nee Young of 15, Clovelly Street, Belfast. Died 25 July 1918 aged 23 years. Commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Birth registered as John Trew, residing at 57 Willow Street, Belfast .

Frederick Ramsey WALKER. Military Cross. 2nd Lieutenant 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. formerly Sergeant Major. Husband of Josephine Margaret Walker, of 107, Donegall Street., Belfast. Awarded Medaille Militaire (France). Fought in the Boer War 1899 -1902 Died in Scotland 6 January 1917. At rest in Dalry Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

The following extract is credited to Dukie News Issue 8. June 2017 Frederick was born in the military barracks in Tipperary on 27 July 1882. His father Tom was a staff sergeant in the 25th (the King’s Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot at the time and his mother was recorded as Mary Susanna (nee Lawson). He was orphaned sometime after between 1891 and 1893; and coming from a military background he was duly admitted to the Duke of York’s Royal Military School in Chelsea on 26 May 1893. On leaving the school on 8 August 1896 aged just 14 he joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s).

https://doyrms.alumni-online.com/StaticFiles/DoyrmsITW_0000000957.pdf

Extract credited to the newspaper The Scotsman Lt Walker who was born in Tipperary in Ireland and joined the army as a boy soldier when he was 13 years old. He died suddenly at Dreghorn camp, in Colinton, Edinburgh, on 6 January, 1917, aged 34. When he died, The Evening Despatch of 10 January, 1917 reported that a large number of people accompanied the cortege from camp to the cemetery, preceded by pipe and brass bands of his battalion and followed by six hundred men from different battalions. There was a graveside service, and shots were fired.

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Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

Etaples Military Cemetery

During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained.

Etaples: Jasper Myers Richardson

Etaples: Lt-Col W.R.A. Dawson DSO

Etaples: Lt-Col A.M. Holdsworth

Etaples Military Cemetery

The cemetery contains 10,769 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. Hospitals were again stationed at Etaples during the Second World War and the cemetery was used for burials from January 1940 until the evacuation at the end of May 1940. After the war, a number of graves were brought into the cemetery from other French burial grounds. Of the 119 Second World War burials, 38 are unidentified. Etaples Military Cemetery also contains 658 German burials and a few war graves of other nationalities. The cemetery, the largest Commission cemetery in France, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

Etaples Military Cemetery in the snow 1919

Royal Field Artillery

584

Royal Engineers

302

Royal Garrison Artillery

271

Northumberland Fusiliers

258

Machine Gun Corps

244

Royal Fusiliers (City Of London Regt)

243

Kings Liverpool Regt

203

Gordon Highlanders

199

West Yorkshire Regt

188

Royal Scots (Lothian Regt)

178

Seaforth Highlanders

163

Middlesex Regt

156

Durham Light Inf

153

Royal Army Medical Corps

142

Kings Royal Rifle Corps

135

Manchester Regt

135

Rifle Brigade

128

Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regt)

127

South Staffordshire Regt

125

Lincolnshire Regt

125

Army Service Corps

124

Lancashire Fusiliers

117

Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

116

Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys Regt)

112

York and Lancaster Regt

107

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

103

Highland Light Infantry

101

Queens (Royal West Surrey Regt)

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

Border Regt

East Yorkshire Regt

Yorkshire Regt (Green Howards)

Essex Regt

Royal Warwickshire Regt

Worcestershire Regt

Hampshire Regt

Cheshire Regt

Suffolk Regt

Loyal North Lancashire Regt

Royal Lancaster Regt

Royal Berkshire Regt

Kings Shropshire Light Inf

Grenadier Guards

Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

South Lancashire Regt

Bedfordshire Regt

Gloucestershire Regt

Royal Sussex Regt

Cameron Highlanders

Royal Army Service Corps

Kings Own Scottish Borderers

Royal West Kent Regt (Queens Own)

Devonshire Regt

East Lancashire Regt

Leicestershire Regt

Somerset Light Infantry

Royal Scots Fusiliers

19th Bn London Regt (St. Pancras)

1st Life Guards

East Surrey Regt

Buffs (East Kent Regt)

South Wales Borderers

Norfolk Regt

North Staffordshire Regt

Welsh Regiment

Royal Dublin Fusiliers

Duke of Cornwall’s Light Inf

Coldstream Guards

Irish Guards

Royal Naval Division, Royal Marines Light Inf

Honourable Artillery Coy

Wiltshire Regt

Royal Air Force

Dorsetshire Regt

Scots Guards

Northamptonshire Regt

Royal Irish Rifles

14th Bn London Regt (London Scottish)

Tank Corps

9th Bn London Regt (Queen Victorias Rifles)

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

1st Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

Royal Flying Corps

12th Bn London Regt (The Rangers)

Leinster Regt

Royal Irish Fusiliers

5th Bn London Regt (London Rifle Brigade)

22nd Bn London Regt (The Queens)

Royal Horse Artillery

Welsh Guards

Monmouthshire Regt

Royal Irish Regt

16th Bn London Regt (Queens Westminster Rifles)

8th Bn London Regt (Post Office Rifles)

Royal Naval Division, Anson Bn

Royal Naval Division, Hood Bn

Army Veterinary Corps

Labour Corps

21st Bn London Regt (1st Surrey Rifles)

4th Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

15th Bn London Regt (PWO, Civil Service Rifles )

18th Bn London Regt (London Irish Rifles)

Royal Munster Fusilier

17th Bn London Regt (Poplar & Stepney Rifles)

Royal Naval Division, Howe

1st Household Bn

Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

28th Bn London Regt (Artists Rifles)

3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales’s)

20th Bn London Regt (Blackheath & Woolwich)

13th Bn London Regt (Kensington)

Army Cyclist Corps

Royal Naval Division, Drake Bn

Royal Army Ordanance Corps

3rd Bn London Regt ( Royal Fusiliers)

23rd Bn London Reg

Royal Naval Division, Hawke Bn

24th Bn London Regt (The Queens)

Cambridgeshire Regt

Royal Naval Division, Nelson Bn

2nd Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

Military Police Corps

6th Bn London Regt (London Rifles)

Hertfordshire Regt

11th Hussars (Prince Alberts Own)

QMAAC

2nd Dragoon (Royal Scots Greys)

7th Bn London Regt

5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s)

9th Lancers (Queens Royal)

1st Dragoons (Royal)

10th Hussars (Prince of Wales Own Royal)

Royal Army Veterinary Corps

Guards Machine Gun Regt

Mercantile Marine, SS “Huntsmore”

6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)

Royal Horse Guards

YMCA

3rd Hussars (Kings Own)

4th Hussars (Queens Own)

2/3rd Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays)

2/2nd Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

Queens A Imperial Military Nursing Service

Civilian

Non Combattants Corps

Royal Naval Division, Medical Unit

Connaught Rangers

12th Lancers (Prince of Wales’s Royal )

2/5th Bn London Regt (London Rifle Brigade)

10th Bn London Regt (Hackney)

Royal Naval Division, Machine Gun Coy

Royal Naval Division, Royal Marine Artillery

2/7th Bn London Regt

2/12th Bn London Regt (The Rangers)

Northamptonshire Yeomanry

2/4th Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

20th Hussars

19th Hussars (Queen Alexandra’s Own Royal )

2/6th Bn London Regt (London Rifles)

Voluntary Aid Detachments

Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars

6th Dragoons (Inniskilling)

2nd Life Guards

14th Hussars (Kings)

Royal Navy HMS Victory

Lincolnshire Yeomanry

Royal Navy HMS President VI

1st Dragoon Guards (Kings Royal)

18th Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own)

Royal Navy HMS Eden

17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)

7th Hussars (Queens Own)

Lena Ashwell Concert Party

City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)

Chinese Labour Corps

North Somerset Yeomanry

Army Pay Corps

13th Hussars `

Royal Hussars (Gloucestershire)

Warwickshire Yeomanry

Royal Naval Division, Divisional Train

11th Bn London Regt (Finsbury Rifles)

1/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry

Belgian Motorcyclist

North Irish Horse

1/1st Huntingdonshire Cyclist Bn

2nd Household Bn

Special List

30th Bn London Regt

King Edwards Horse

29th Bn London Regt

34th Bn London Regt

Scottish Churches

23rd Lancers

Infantry Base Depot

Leicestershire Yeomanry

Chaplain to the Forces

1st King Edwards Horse

1/1st East Riding Yeomanry

2/14th Bn London Regt (London Scottish)

4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish)

General List

St John’s Ambulance Brigade

5th Lancers (Royal Irish)

2/2nd Lovat Scouts

Territorial Nursing Service

2/24th Bn London Regt (The Queens)

2/20th Bn London Regt (Blackheath & Woolwich)

2/1st Sussex Yeomanry

2/1st Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

3rd County of London (Sharpshooters)

Identified UK Burials

8752

Unidentified UK Burials

Total UK Burials

8785

Total Number of UK & Overseas Burials

10744

Silent Cities - WW1 Revisited website: Etaples Military Cemetery #WW1 Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

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Who Were The Royal Munster Fusiliers

The Royal Munster Fusiliers was a British Army infantry regiments that recruited predominantly from the south-west of Ireland. This regiment was created in 1881 through the amalgamation of two East Indian Company regiments and was disbanded in 1922 when the Irish Free State was established. They served in India as well as in the Great War, and they won three Victoria Crosses. However, during the battle, the 2nd Battalion of the regiment was almost wiped out completely and not just once, but twice. First, during the Etreux in 1914 and then in Somme in 1918.

The Origin

The two former East Indian regiments that came together to form the Munster Fusiliers were the 104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers) and the 101st Regiment. These regiments can trace back to the East Indian Company also known as the John Company in the 1650’s. In the year 1861, the British Crown took control of the company army, and they were linked at Tralee with a Bridge Depot and affiliated with the Royal Limerick County, the South Cork Rifles, Kerry and Clare Militias. When in 1881 the Regiment was formed, the North Cork Rifles changed to the 9th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps while the Clare Militia changed to Garrison Artillery. The Regiments had 11 raised battalions in total. Pre-War

The 1st Regular Battalion 1881-1914

The 2nd Regular Battalion 1881-1914

The 3rd, 4th, and 5th Militia Battalions 1881-1914

The Great War

The 1st Regular Battalion 1914-1918

The 2nd Regular Battalion 1914-1918

The 6th and 7th Service Battalions 1914-1918

The 8th and 9th Service Battalions 1914-1918

The 10th Battalion-Privately recruited in 1918 but was never recognized officially

The 3rd, 4th and 5th Reserve Battalions-They were mostly training units until the 3rd Battalion absorbed the 4th and 5th Battalions in 1918

The 1st and 2nd Garrison Battalions- Formed in 1917 and in 1918 and serviced in Italy

A video of the royal munster fusiliers beach landing

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After The War

After the War came to an end, the 1st Battalion stayed in France till June 1919 then left for Plymouth where it went ahead to merge with the 3rd Battalion there. It stayed in Plymouth until September 1921 when it came together with the Inter-Allied Force in Silesia then returned to their country in 1922. The 2nd Battalion stayed in France til June of 1919 then went back to their country. It, later on, left for Egypt in 1919 and remained til May 1922. On July 31st, 1922, after the Irish Independence, the Regiments was disbanded.

from Royal Munster Fusiliers http://royalmunsterfusiliers.net/who-were-the-royal-munster-fusiliers/ via royalmunsterfusiliers.net

#Royal Munster Fusiliers

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Roll of Honour - upcoming centenary anniversaries

Upcoming centenary anniversaries from the Surrey Association roll of honour.

Year to May 2017

18/03/1917 Private Stanley Smith, Mitcham. 9th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Killed in action, buried Bully-Grenay Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4164114

06/05/1917 Corporal William Frank Smith, Reigate. Household Battalion, Royal Horse Guards. Killed in action, buried Crump Trench British Cemtery, Fampoux, Pas de Calais. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4176107

29/04/1917 Private Arthur Ernest Plowman, Beddington, 13th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Missing, presumed killed, commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3537984 already written up at https://halfmuffled.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/arthur-ernest-plowman-1898-1917%E2%80%A0-missed-from-the-roll/

Previously omitted from the roll originally for reasons that are not entirely clear, his death was mentioned at Association meetings, and he'd rung at leas one quarter peal, but it's possible his parents were desperately hoping that as he'd only been reported missing he would somehow re-appear.)

May 2017 - May 2018

Over the coming year (to May 2018) we will pass the centenaries of the deaths of 8 members of the association during the First World War. This year the deaths are split between the Battle of Arras in April 1917, the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), the Battle of Cambrai and the German Spring Offensive in March and April 1918. Two of the men were from Hersham, which is no longer in union with the Association.

09/08/1917 Private George Basil Edser, Hersham. 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Missing, presumed killed. Commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ieper, Belgium. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2424457

13/08/1917 Private Charles Herbert Varo, Burstow. 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment. Killed in action. Buried Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Belgium. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4549704

04/10/1917 Private Ernest James Hamblin, Hersham. 3rd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment (New Zealand Army). Missing, presumed killed. New Zealand Memorial Apse, Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/7175694

28/11/1917 Private Benjamin Arthur Morris, Mitcham. 4th Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Killed in action. Buried Orival Wood Cemetery, Flesquieres, Nord, France. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3128345

22/03/1918 Second Lieutenant Ernest Attwater, Immanuel Streatham (but also a ringer at St Leonard's). Killed in action. Buried Foucaucourt-en-Santerre, Somme, France. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/100609

25/03/1918 Lance Serjeant Sydney Reddick, Ashtead. 1st Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), posted 26th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action, buried Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, Pas de Calais. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3677197 already written up at https://halfmuffled.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/the-first-individual-page-sydney-reddick/

27/03/1918 Private Ernest Morley, Merstham. 5th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Missing, presumed killed, commemorated Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3124132

24/04/1918 Private George Robert Kew, Burstow. 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Missing, presumed killed. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2243692 There are two other ringers who died who are not listed on the Surrey Association roll of honour, but who were connected with Surrey towers in some way.

21/06/1917 Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class Cecil Herbert Schooling, curate at St John's Croydon (Croydon Minster) before joining up, on Central Council roll as Cambridge University Guild of Change Ringers. Attached 122nd Infantry Brigade. Died of wounds, buried Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Ieper, Belgium. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3927285

16/08/1917 Private George William Waylen Honeyball, Putney, on Central Council roll as Middlesex Diocesan, though he rang in at least one Putney peal for Surrey Association. 7th Battaloin, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Missing, presumed dead. Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial, Ieper. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3927285 I'll be expanding the profiles linked above as the individual centenary approaches, and on the anniversary will also publish a short biography on http://halfmuffled.wordpress.com on the centenary. If anyone has additional info, please email, or add it to the profile on Lives of the First World War directly. I also have various extracts from the Ringing World which I will add to the profiles. If towers would like additional details in advance of the centenary (eg for local press coverage), then I will provide as much as I can. We're already planning a peal at Putney for centenary of Honeyball's death, and hoping to have a small display in the church relating to him on that day.

David Underdown

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