1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
19/09/1890
Died:
17/09/1920 (Survived The War)
Age:
29
Summary
Edward Joseph Timoney was a son of Edward and Brigid Timoney. Edward Joseph Timoney was born 19th September 1890 in Cookstown. The 1911 census lists Joseph Edward as age 20 living with the family in Loy Street, Cookstown. Both he and his father worked as garden labourers. Lance Sergeant Edward Joseph Timoney served with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (11582) attached to the 36th Signals Company. He survived the war and died while in service in India on 17th September 1920. He died just two days before his 30th birthday. He was the husband of Catherine Timoney of Churchtown Cottages, Dundrum, County Dublin.
Further Information
Edward Joseph Timoney was a son of Edward and Brigid Timoney. Edward Timoney married Bridget Quinn on 16th November 1884 in Cookstown.
Edward Joseph Timoney was born 19th September 1890 in Cookstown.
The 1901 census lists Joseph as age 10 living with the family at house 7 in Loy Street, Cookstown. His father was a general labourer.
Family: Edward Timoney, Bridget Timoney, Mary Timoney (born 28th October 1885), Patrick Alphonsus Timoney (born about 1886), Joseph Edward Timoney (born 19th September 1890), James Timoney (born about 10th April 1893), Thomas Timoney (born about 1896), George Timoney (born about 1899), John Timoney (born about 1899), Arthur Timoney (born about 1900).
The 1911 census lists Joseph Edward as age 20 living with the family at house 16 in Loy Street, Cookstown. Both he and his father worked as garden labourers.
He was the husband of Catherine Timoney of 45 Churchtown Cottages, Dundrum, County Dublin.
Lance Sergeant Edward Joseph Timoney served with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (11582) attached to the 36th Signals Company.
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 25th September 1915: The Brothers Timoney, Loy Street, Cookstown
Private Joseph Timoney, B Company, 6th Inniskillings, with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, writing to his father, Mr Edward Timoney, Loy street, Cookstown, on 30th August, says he has been in hospital suffering from shrapnel wound and has recovered. He says the shrapnel went in at the left side of his neck and he had to undergo and operation to have it removed from where it was lodged near the right shoulder blade. He has the bit of shrapnel and would like to send it home as a souvenir. James Shiels, of the Chapel Hill, was the only Cookstown man wounded at the same time as he was. He belonged to the Munsters. They see each other regularly. Private Timoney adds that he wishes he could see the Mid Ulster Mail to get the local news. In a further undated letter he writes asking for some cigarettes.
Intimation has been received from the Infantry Record Office, Dublin, that his brother, Thomas Timoney, of the same battalion, is ill and has been admitted to the First Canadian Stationary Hospital suffering from dysentery. In a letter dated 3rd September, however, he writes to his father that he need not worry about him as he thinks he will be all right and is getting on well. He does not want anything sent to him as he gets all he wants. He adds:- ‘Brown and Tommy Campbell are shot, poor fellows, and Charles Coey is wounded. Our Division has made a good name for itself, especially the 16th Battalion, as they were all brave men, all of them. The Turks ran away from us pretty fast.’ The Brown referred to is, we understand, John Brown, who belongs to South Derry, and was employed by William J Henry, Cloghog, at the time he joined the Army. Tommy Campbell is a son of Mr William Campbell, the Blue Doors, Cookstown. He was in the employment of Messrs Adair’s before enlistment. His parents have not yet had any intimation that he is in the casualty list.
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 20th November 1915: MARRIAGES (sister of Edward Timoney)
McATAMNEY – TIMONEY – 16th November, with nuptial mass at St Mary’s R.C. Church, Lavey, by Rev Michael O’Neill, P.P., assisted by Rev Paul McKenna, C.C., Edward John, second son of John McAtamney, Moyogall, to Mary Teresa, only daughter of Edward Timoney, Cookstown.
Lance Sergeant Edward Joseph Timoney survived the war and died while in service in India on 17th September 1920. He died just two days before his 30th birthday.
Lance Sergeant Timoney was buried in Malakand Cemetery (Grave 116) and is commemorated on Face 1 of the Delhi Memorial (India Gate), Rajpath Kingsway, Delhi, India.
He was the elder brother of Private John Timoney who was killed in action on 11 July 1916 and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial.
Edward is listed with the CWGC.
The CWGC record Lance Sergeant Edward Joseph Timoney as the son of Edward and Bridget Timoney, of Loy St., Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. It also records him as the husband of Catherine Timoney, of 45, Churchtown Cottages, Dundrum, Co. Dublin. (Buried Malakand Cem. 116.).
