1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
27/09/1889
Died:
28/01/1917 (Killed in Action)
Age:
27
Summary
Cecil William Glenn came from Cookstown. After gaining promotion he was attached to 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers .He was killed in action on the night of 27th/28th January 1917, during an attack in which the 1st Inniskillings and 1st Border Regiment attacked strong German held positions south of Le Transloy. Cecil William Glenn has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 4C-5C on Thiepval Memorial, France.
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July.
