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18/07/2018 Constable Bryce M Gilmour (son of ex Head-Constable Gilmour, master of Ballymoney Workhouse, volunteered with two others from Cookstown police district for active service in the Irish Guards. He has now been called up, while the two others, though successful in the ballot, have since withdrawn their applications. Constable Gilmour was born in County Roscommon while his father was stationed there, and has three years’ service in the Royal Irish constabulary, two of which have been spent in Cookstown. He has orders to report in Dublin next week, thence to proceed to the depot of the Irish Guards at Caterham. He carries with him the best wishes of every patriotic citizen for his safe return. His brother, a commercial traveller, has just died suddenly of appendicitis when on business in the west of Ireland.
18/07/2018
18/07/2018 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 6th February 1915:
19/03/2018 Official intimation has been received by Mr Bryce Gilmour, Charlotte Street, Ballymoney, that his third son, Corporal Bryce Gilmour, 2nd Battalion Irish Guards, was killed in action in France on the 30th September. He was a constable in the R.I.C. stationed in Cookstown, and joined the Irish Guards in February last, as a result of a third application, his first and second being refused. Another constable who was in the same battalion as Corporal Gilmour wrote about a week ago informing Mr Gilmour that his son had been seriously wounded in a bayonet charge in which the Guards covered themselves in glory, taking the third line of German trenches. Constable Gilmour’s character may be gauged by a statement made by him to a friend by way of explanation why he had volunteered for active service. He said he thought he ought to be doing more for his country at this crisis than hanging about street corners in Cookstown. It will be recollected that he got a very enthusiastic send-off when he left Cookstown last February, and his death is mourned by a wide circle. Mr Gilmour has another son on active service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
19/03/2018
19/03/2018 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 23rd October 1915: Constable Bryce Gilmour
18/03/2018 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 23rd October 1915:
18/03/2018 Gilmour – 30th September, somewhere in France, the result of bayonet wounds, Corporal Bryce Gilmour, 2nd Battalion Irish Guards, third son of Bryce Gilmour, Ballymoney, and until February last a Constable of R.I.C. at Cookstown.
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27/10/2017
26/10/2017 In February 1915, Bryce enlisted with the Irish Guards in Dublin and trained at the old Warley Barracks. They did their first route march on the 6th August.
26/10/2017 The 1901 census lists Bryce M as age 7, living with the family at house 62 in Connaught St. Athlone Urban, County Westmeath. His father was a sergeant in the Royal Irish Constabulary (R.I.C).
26/10/2017 Known family: Bryce Gilmour, Ida Gilmour, William Gilmour (born about 1888), Robert W Gilmour (born about 1893), Bryce Matthew Gilmour (born about 1894), Cecil Richard Gilmour (born about 1897), Eileen Christella Gilmour (born about 1900), Vera May Gilmour (born about 1901), Ida Elizabeth Gilmour (born about 1909).
26/10/2017 On Sunday 24th October 1915, at 2nd Presbyterian Church, Cookstown, Reverend D. Maybin, B.A. spoke highly of Bryce Gilmour who was an esteemed member of the congregation.
26/10/2017 The 1911 census does not list Bryce as living with the family at house 21 in College Street, Ballyshannon, County Donegal. His father was Head Constable.
26/10/2017 The 1911 census lists Bryce M. as age 17, living with his uncle and aunt at house 9 in Killymaddy, The Vow, County Antrim. The vow lies south of Ballymoney.
26/10/2017 The family then moved to Ballymoney and his father took charge of the Ballymoney Workhouse. They lived in Charlotte Street in the town.
26/10/2017 Bryce Gilmour served as a police constable with the Royal Irish Constabulary in Cookstown.
26/10/2017 Bryce Gilmour was the third son of Bryce and Ida Gilmour. Brice Matthew Gilmour was born in Roscommon about 1894. He was one of ten children, seven surviving.
26/10/2017 Bryce Gilmour left with his battalion from Brentwood Station for France on 16th August 1915.
26/10/2017 On the 26th September 1915, the 2nd Battalion was instructed to advance to and take possession of a captured German trench at La Rutoire, Loos.
26/10/2017 Later that day their objective was to take Chalk Pit Wood in the same sector of the front, but a heavy bombardment over the following hours and days made the task almost impossible. The battalion had been under considerable strain.
26/10/2017 It was reported that Bryce Gilmour died as a result of a bayonet wound while attacking the enemy positions at Loos.
26/10/2017 Bryce’s younger brother, Cecil Richard Gilmour, served with the Canadians (Service No 57833) during the war. Cecil survived the war. Cecil’s Canadian Military details can be downloaded.
26/10/2017 Lance Corporal Bryce Gilmour has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial in Dud Corner Cemetery, France.
26/10/2017 Lance Corporal Bryce Gilmour is also commemorated on Cookstown Cenotaph and on Second Cookstown Presbyterian Roll of Honour.
26/10/2017 Lance Corporal Bryce Gilmour was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Irish Guards when he was killed in action on Thursday 30th September 1915.
30/12/2015
30/12/2015 The CWGC have listed Bryce M Gilmour as Boyce M Gilmour erroneously in their database.
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