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6th Battalion, Connaught Rangers
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Those known to have served with6th Battalion, Connaught Rangers during the Great War 1914-1918. - Armstrong Charles. Pte.
- Atwell Robert Erskine. Lt. (d.2nd Sep 1918)
- Bannerman James. Pte. (d.8th Feb 1917)
- Beatty Eric Edge. Lt. (d.4th Apr 1916)
- Bolger Patrick. Pte. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Booth Edwun F.. L/Cpl. (d.3rd Aug 1917)
- Broderick Alfred. Pte (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Casey John. Pte. (d.21st March 1918)
- Casey Peter. Pte. (d.23rd June 1917)
- Casey Peter. Pte. (d.23rd June 1917)
- Dixon M.. Sjt. (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Dunne Patrick. Pte. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Fielding DSO. Rowland. Lt. Col.
- Fitzpatrick George. Sgt.
- Jackson David. Pte. (d.21st March 1918)
- Lalor Eugene. Pte.
- Lenox-Conyngham J. A.M.. Lt.Col. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Lyons Eugene. L/Cpl. (d.15th Feb 1918)
- Maguire Hugh. 2nd Lt (d.9th Sept 1916)
- McGlade Daniel. Pte. (d.31st Jul 1916)
- McKeever John. Pte (d.8th March 1917)
- O'Neill Denis. Pte. (d.31st Jan 1918)
- Tosh James. Pte (d.26th July 1916)
- Wallace Andrew. Pte.
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Pte. John Casey 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers (d.21st March 1918)  John Casey died, killed in action, on 21st of March 1918 on the first day of the German Spring Offensive. He had enlisted in Glasgow and served also with the 3rd Battalion of the Connaught Rangers.
For 100 years he was lost to his family. His sisters had emigrated to America before he enlisted so they never knew what had become of him. His sister’s last memory of him was as a young boy playing the tin whistle at the door of their home in Glensaul.
Through research, and thanks to the internet, we were able to trace John. On 21st of March 2019 his grand niece and grand nephew, along with a great grand nephew, visited his grave in Ste Emilie Valley Cemetery, France on the 100th anniversary of his death. They were the first members of his family to stand at his grave. He had been buried initially on the battlefield but his grave was discovered during the battlefield clearances, he was identified by his tag and re-interred in Ste Emilie Valley Cemetery, just a short distance from where he fell.
Finding John has been an amazing and very exciting journey. We would encourage anyone who has even scant information about a relative to engage in a similar quest.
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Pte. Daniel McGlade 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers (d.31st Jul 1916) Daniel McGlade was a relation of my paternal great-grandmother's husband. I found this information out when I was researching my family tree.
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Pte. Andrew Wallace 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers Andrew Wallace enlisted in Kilkenny Ireland with the 6th Connaught Rangers. He was reported wounded in action in Sept 1917. He then transferred to the Leinster Regiment and was wounded again in October 1918.
He was discharged on the 1st of March 1919 in Llanelli, Wales and was awarded a Disability Pension.
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Pte. David Jackson 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers (d.21st March 1918) David Jackson, my great uncle, died 6 six days before his 21st birthday.
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Pte. Denis O'Neill 6th (Service) Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.31st Jan 1918) Denis O'Neill was the son of C. O'Neill, of Gurtharrs, Berehaven.
He is buried about six yards east of the Church in the Rossmackowen Catholic Churchyard, Kilconenagh, Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Pte. Patrick Dunne 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.3rd Sep 1916) Patrick Dunne served with the 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers. This is all the information I have regarding my grandfather, who was killed in the capture of Guillemont at the Battle of the Somme on 3rd September 1916. My father (an only child) was only one year old when his dad was killed.
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Lt.Col. J. A.M. Lenox-Conyngham Connaught Rangers (d.3rd Sep 1916) Lt.Col. Lenox-Conyngham is remembered in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh.
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Pte. Peter Casey 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.23rd June 1917) Peter Casey was my granddad. He was born in Keash, Co.Sligo in 1882. He went to England and worked as a coal hewer on the coal face in Lancashire.
He was wounded in both legs and right arm on 7th June and died on the 23rd in hospital in Wimereux, France. He is buried in the communal cemetery in Wimereux
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Pte. Peter Casey 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.23rd June 1917) Peter Casey was born in 1882 in Keash, Co. Sligo. He moved to Lancashire, England in 1900 and worked in the mines on the coal face. He married Bridget Sheeran, whose parents came from Ballymote. They had four children, Mary born 1906, Michael, John and Anne born 1914. Peter died from wounds to his arm and legs in Wimereux Army Hospital on 23rd June 1917 and is buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery. His daughter Mary married Tommy Martyn from Galway, whose offspring represented Great Britain and Ireland at rugby league.
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L/Cpl. Edwun F. Booth 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.3rd Aug 1917) Edwun Booth was the son of Elizabeth Booth, of 18, Lower Glengariff Parade, North Circular Rd., Dublin, and William Booth.
He served with the Connaught Rangers 6th Battalion and was killed in action in Flanders aged 22 in August 1917. He is buried in Potijze Chateau Lawn Cemetery, Ieper.
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Lt. Eric Edge Beatty 6th Btn Connaught Rangers (d.4th Apr 1916) Eric Edge Beatty was the son of of Wallace Beatty, M.D., of 38, Merrion Square, Dublin and Francis Eleanor (Edge). He was killed in action aged 23 and is remembered on the Memorial at St. Stephen's, Church of Ireland, Upper Mount Street.
Eric Edge Beatty was born 30 June, 1893. He was educated at St. Stephen's Green School, Dublin, and St. Coluraba's College, Rathfarnham. In October 1911 he entered Trinity College, Dublin and then Trinity College Medical School, and obtained a first in Botany and Zoology.
He obtained his commission as 2nd Lieutenant in September, 1914 and was promoted to be Lieutenant in February, 1915. He served in his regiment as Machine Gun Officer with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders and was afterwards made Brigade Machine Gun Officer, and was killed in action on 29 April, 1916. He is buried in the British Cemetery at
Noeux-les-Mines.
Col. L. Conyngham wrote: "On several occasions he did excellent service with his machine guns, and was unlucky on at least two of them not to have received special mention. He had been specially selected for promotion to rank of Captain, and had he lived his name would have appeared in an early Gazette. His amiable personality and constant devotion to duty had earned for him the affection and respect of his comrades of all ranks, by whom his loss was deeply regretted."
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Pte. James Bannerman 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.8th Feb 1917) James Bannerman was the son of Margaret Bannerman, of 107, Foley St., Dublin. Served in the South African Campaign. He was killed in action in Flanders age 34. Buried in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery.
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Lt. Robert Erskine Atwell 4th Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.2nd Sep 1918) Lieutenant Robert Atwell was born on October 26th 1882 in Sandymount, Dublin. He was the son of Sarah Margretta Atwell, of 10 Braid Hills Road, Edinburgh, and Richard Atwell, of Blackrock, County Dublin. Before enlisting in December 1914 he worked at the Head Office of Standard Life Assurance Company, Edinburgh. From 1914 to 1917 he served in the Lothians and Border Horse, and on 25th January 1917 he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Connaught Rangers. He then travelled to France in March of that year.
For the first three months he was attached to the 6th Connaught Rangers, and from August 1917 to April 1918 he was back in Scotland recovering from shell shock. A few months after returning to France in August 1918 he was promoted to Lieutenant having been attached to the 12th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles. Robert Atwell was 35 years old when he was killed in action near Neuve Eglise, France, and he is buried in Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery. He is commemorated on the Standard Life Assurance Company Memorial, Edinburgh.
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Pte. Charles Armstrong 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers Charles Armstrong died of wounds at home.
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