Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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28/06/2024 Corp Thomas Henry 02697
28/06/2024 Corp Thomas Henry Thomas Henry is commemorated locally on the family headstone in the grounds of Kildress Church of Ireland. The inscription reads "also out dear son Corp. T.A. Henry. RIR - Killed in Action in Ypres -16th August 1917"
25/06/2024 Marine Samuel George Duncan Marine Samuel George Duncan is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand. He was reinterred on 20th March 1946. His inscription reads ‘PROUDLY HE SERVED, PROUDLY WE REMEMBER.’
25/06/2024 Marine Samuel George Duncan Marine Samuel George Duncan was originally interred in Kannyu No.1 (Grave 119).
25/06/2024 Marine Samuel George Duncan Prior to WW2, Samuel worked as a chemist's assistant.
25/06/2024 Marine Samuel George Duncan Marine Samuel George Duncan died of from beriberi and malaria as a prisoner of war at Konyu Camp on 19th July 1943, aged 20.
25/06/2024 Marine Samuel George Duncan Samuel George Duncan was son of Samuel and Lucy Duncan. He was born on 9th January 1923.
22/06/2024 Cadet Thomas Xavier Murphy Cadet Murphy survived the initial crash, he was still alive when he was extricated from the plane. The camp ambulance from Leaside Aerodrome was sent for, but Cadet Murphy was beyond all aid when it arrived. The cause of death was a fracture at the base of the skull.
22/06/2024 Cadet Thomas Xavier Murphy Thomas’ father, Hugh Murphy, was a colonel in the British Army.
22/06/2024 Cadet Thomas Xavier Murphy 02695
22/06/2024 Cadet Thomas Xavier Murphy Flying yesterday in the vicinity of Wexford post office (Canada), Cadet Thomas X Murphy, of the Royal Flying Corps, fell a distance of about one thousand feet and was fatally injured. The machine came to earth on Holden’s farm, which is situated on the west half of lot 7, concession 4, east of Yonge Street. The cause of the accident has not been ascertained, but it is believed that engine trouble was responsible for the fatality. The first persons to arrive at the scene were Frank Holden and Arthur Martin. The aviator was still alive when the extricated him from the machine. The camp ambulance from Leaside was sent for and came as quickly as possible, but Murphy was beyond all aid when it arrived. The cause of death was a fracture at the base of the skull. The deceased flying man had been in training for the past four months. He was about twenty three years old and was born in Ireland. It is stated that his father is a colonel in the British Army. An uncle lives in New York and it is expected that he will come to Toronto, but apparently he did not arrive on the train this morning. The plane was badly wrecked and was taken back to the camp. An inquest on Murphy will be opened this afternoon by Coroner Clendennan.
22/06/2024 Cadet Thomas Xavier Murphy 02696
22/06/2024 Cadet Thomas Xavier Murphy From the Toronto Telegram dated October 1917: Cadet Instantly Killed (When machine crashed to earth near Wexford yesterday afternoon)
22/06/2024 Cadet Thomas Xavier Murphy Four months into his training, on 26th October 1917, Cadet Thomas X Murphy, of the Royal Flying Corps, was training alone. In the vicinity of Wexford post office, in Canada, Cadet Thomas X Murphy’s aircraft crashed.
20/06/2024 Sgt. Thomas Nelson 02694
20/06/2024 Sgt. Thomas Nelson 02693
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart Second Lieutenant Robert James Noel Stuart was serving with the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (attached to 2nd Battalion) when he was instantaneously killed by shell fire at about 08.00 hours near Festubert on the morning of 17th May 1915.
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart He may have been with the 2nd Battalion at Aubers (9-10 May 1915) and was at Festubert (15-25 May 1915).
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart 2nd Lieutenant Robert Stuart went to France on 8th March 1915, attached to the 2nd Battalion.
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart Robert obtained a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in August 1914.
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart Robert lived at Watergate House, Adelphi, and also at 30 Carrington Court, Mayfair. London.
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart In the 1911 English census he is recorded as a visitor in Wheathampstead at Down Green, the home of James Wriothesley Noel. The family relationship is through Robert’s Paternal Grandmother, Mary Penelope Noel.
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart He then became an apprentice at a mechanical engineering company, Lacy Herbert in London.
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart Robert went to Straits Settlement (Malaya) as apprentice for the the Road and Bridge Construction company, but returned in1908 due to sickness.
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart In 1906. His mother remarried in spring 1901 to Arthur Prince.
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart In the 1901 English census, Robert was attending Marlborough College (1900 – 1903) and thereafter became a tutor there from 1903 – 1906.
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart Robert’s father, Horace, was half-brother to Earl of Castlestewart, who lived at Stuart Hall, Stewartstown, County Tyrone. Horace died in 1900.
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart He was the only child of Horace Noel Stuart and Madeleine Frances Stuart (nee Hemming). They lived at 18 Bryanston Street, Marylebone, London
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart Robert James Noel Stuart was born on 23rd October 1886 (baptised 3rd December 1886) in Marylebone, London
19/06/2024 2nd Lieut Robert James Noel Stuart 02692
18/06/2024 Fus Joseph Conlon 02691
13/06/2024 Civilian William Shuter 02690
13/06/2024 Civilian William Shuter 02689
13/06/2024 Civilian William Shuter 02688
13/06/2024 Civilian William Shuter William Shuter has no known grave and is commemorated on the Clydebank Blitz Memorial in Old Dalnottar Cemetery on Great Western Road in Clydebank. The CWGC record the location as Burgh of Clydebank.
13/06/2024 Civilian William Shuter Memorial notices from the family in 1942 declare that he was buried in Dumbarton Cemetery.
12/06/2024 Pte. Hamilton Patterson McReynolds 02687
12/06/2024 Pte. Hamilton Patterson McReynolds 02686
10/06/2024 Driver Frank McGeown Also their daughter, Pegg Quinn (nee McGeown) who died ?
10/06/2024 Driver Frank McGeown And their son Francis, who died 17th March 1945
10/06/2024 Driver Frank McGeown Also Sarah, wife of Bernard, who died 12th May 1966
10/06/2024 Driver Frank McGeown And his brother Bernard, who died 5th November 1937
10/06/2024 Driver Frank McGeown In loving memory of James McGeown, who died August 1895?
10/06/2024 Driver Frank McGeown 02685
10/06/2024 Driver Frank McGeown 02684
10/06/2024 Driver Frank McGeown 02683
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner John’s mother, Sarah Jane Faulkner, died 28th October 1912
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner 02679
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner 02682
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner 02681
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner 02680
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner And also their daughter Mary, died 28th April 1967.
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner Also the above named William Faulkner, died 19th May 1940.
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner And their son John, killed in action in France 1st July 1916.
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner Also their daughter, Harriet, died 17th September 1903
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner In memory of his wife, Sarah Jane, died 28th October 1912
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner William Faulkner, Coolkeighan -
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner Rifleman John Faulkner is also commemorated locally on the family plot in Cookstown New Cemetery. The inscription reads:
10/06/2024 R/man John Faulkner 02678
07/06/2024 Corp Henry McDonald Glasgow Also interred in the family plot in Derryloran Old Cemetery is Ernest Glasgow, who served with the Royal Marine Artillery. He died on 21st August 1923, aged 30.
07/06/2024 Corp Henry McDonald Glasgow
06/06/2024 Lieut Robert Cecil Wallace Lieutenant Robert Wallace is buried in Plot 5, Row L, Grave; 3 at Dar es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania, Africa.
06/06/2024 Lieut Robert Cecil Wallace 02677
04/06/2024 Pte. Joseph Sloan 02676
04/06/2024 Pte. Joseph Sloan 02675
04/06/2024 Corp Patrick Bell 02674
04/06/2024 Corp Patrick Bell 02673
03/06/2024 Carp Crew Thomas McKeown 02672
03/06/2024 Carp Crew Thomas McKeown 02671
03/06/2024 Stoker James Devlin 02670
03/06/2024 Maj Gilbert William Nangle 02669
03/06/2024 Lieut Col John Staples Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham 02668
03/06/2024 Lieut Col John Staples Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham 02667
03/06/2024 Lieut Col John Staples Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham J S M Lenox-Conyngham is also commemorated locally on his family’s headstone (with his wife) in the grounds of Desertlyn Church of Ireland, Smith Street, Moneymore.
03/06/2024 Lieut Col John Staples Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham 02666
03/06/2024 Lieut Col John Staples Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham 02665
03/06/2024 Lieut Col John Staples Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham 02664
03/06/2024 Lieut Col John Staples Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham J S M Lenox-Conyngham is also commemorated on the War Memorial in the grounds of Donnybrook Parish Church, Dublin.
02/06/2024 Pte. Francis O'Neill 02663
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