Date |
Information |
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22/12/2019 |
Private Clark McNickle, R.I.F., of Louisville |
22/12/2019 |
Corporal Cecil Reynolds, Royal Artillery, of St Jean’s Cottages, Cookstown |
22/12/2019 |
Private John Purvis, of Louisville, Cookstown |
22/12/2019 |
Driver Samuel McCann, Royal Army Service Corps, of Coagh Street, Cookstown |
22/12/2019 |
Driver John Donnelly, of Coagh Street, Cookstown an ambulance driver attached to the Royal Army Service Corps |
22/12/2019 |
Private Ernest McGuckin, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, of Low Cross, Tullyhogue |
22/12/2019 |
Other B.E.F. men who arrived home on leave recently were: |
22/12/2019 |
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22/12/2019 |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 29th June 1940: |
22/12/2019 |
Private Robert Robinson, Royal Army Service Corps, of Union Street, Cookstown |
15/09/2019 |
The CWGC record Fusilier Ernest McGuckin as the son of Emily Morrison of Dennistoun, Glasgow. |
15/09/2019 |
Ernest McGuckin was the son of Robert and Emily McGuckin. Ernest McGuckin was born in Stewartstown on 21st October 1919. They lived at Low Cross, Tullyhogue. |
15/09/2019 |
Known family: Robert McGuckin, Emily McGuckin, Ernest McGuckin (born 21st October 1919). |
15/09/2019 |
Prior to enlisting in the army on 8th September 1938, Ernest worked as a farm labourer. |
15/09/2019 |
Fusilier Ernest McGuckin was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he died as a result of a road traffic accident while in service in post war Austria, on 27th December 1946, aged 25. |
15/09/2019 |
Fusilier Ernest McGuckin is buried at Klagenfurt War Cemetery in Austria. His inscription reads: THE HAPPY DAYS WE ONCE ENJOYED, HOW SWEET THEIR MEMORY STILL. GOOD NIGHT, ERNEST |
15/09/2019 |
Submitted by his mother Mrs Morrison. |
15/09/2019 |
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15/09/2019 |
From the Mid Ulster Mail possibly dated 1948: |
30/12/2015 |
'There is no night that can hide you from sight, |
30/12/2015 |
And heartache, only time can heal.' |
30/12/2015 |
You left a memory, no one can steal, |
30/12/2015 |
Just long enough to show your worth. |
30/12/2015 |
You spent too few years upon this earth, |
30/12/2015 |
In drifting clouds, in passing crowds, there is you. |