Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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29/11/2017
29/11/2017 Rifleman Thomas McMahon has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 9 on Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium.
29/11/2017 Rifleman McMahon was killed during an attack that was aimed at dislodging the enemy from trenches which they had recently taken in the area around Armentieres and Ploegsteert Wood. The Battalion lost thirty-three in the action.
29/11/2017 Rifleman Thomas McMahon was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles when he was killed in action on Friday 6th September 1918 close to Ploegsteert Wood.
29/11/2017 Thomas enlisted in Belfast with the Royal Irish Rifles.
29/11/2017 Thomas McMahon was born in Cookstown.
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