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9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
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Those known to have served with9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the Great War 1914-1918. - Archbold MM. Michael. Cpl. (d.16th Aug 1917)
- Ashe Thomas. Pte. (d.30th Nov 1916)
- Authors Charles. L/Cpl. (d.23rd Jul 1916)
- Baker Christopher. L/Cpl. (d.16th Aug 1917)
- Barber Charles. Pte. (d.6th Sep 1916)
- Baziere Danile. Pte. (d.7th Jun 1917 )
- Bennett Michael. Pte. (d.27th Apr 1916)
- Blake James. Pte. (d.28th Apr 1916)
- Boland David. Pte. (d.17th Aug 1917)
- Boland Thomas. L/Cpl. (d.17th Aug 1917)
- Bolger Edward. Pte. (d.8th Jun 1917)
- Bolger John. Pte. (d.18th Mar 1917)
- Boyd William. 2nd Lt. (d.9th Sep 1916)
- Boyd William Hatchell. 2nd Lt. (d.9th Sep 1916)
- Boyne Edward. Pte. (d.9th Jun 1916)
- Bradley Joseph. Pte. (d.17th Aug 1917)
- Brady Joseph. Pte. (d.16th Sep 1916)
- Brady Michael. Pte. (d.11th Nov 1915)
- Brady William. Pte. (d.6th Sep 1916)
- Bray John. Pte. (d.16th Aug 1917)
- Brien John. Pte. (d.7th Sep 1916)
- Brookes Joseph. A/Cpl (d.28th Sep 1918 )
- Brown Edward. Pte. (d.9th Sep 1916)
- Brown Patrick. Pte. (d.14th Aug 1916)
- Byrne James. L/Sjt. (d.2nd Sep 1917)
- Catlin James. Pte.
- Catlin James. Pte. (d.6th Sept 1916)
- Cosgrove John. Cpl. (d.7th November 1914)
- Coulter George. Pte.
- Dooner Stephen Alex. L/Cpl. (d.9th Sep 1916)
- Doyle Thomas Peter. Pte.
- Fennelly John. Pte.
- Foy Owen. Pte. (d.4th Jul 1918)
- Green Thomas. Pte. (d.18th Oct 1915)
- Housham Thomas Henry. Cpl.
- Jenks Frederick. Pte.
- Kilford Richard. Pte. (d.9th June 1917)
- Leonard Michael. Pte.
- Lynch Bartholomew Patrick. Lt.
- McBride A.. Pte. (d.29th June 1918)
- McCann Patrick. Pte.
- Mcevoy Hugh. Pte. (d.16th August 1917)
- Mulvey William. L/Sgt. (d.23rd Oct 1918)
- O'Connor Christoper. Pte. (d.5th Sept 1917)
- O'Neill MID Patrick Joseph. Sgt
- Reardon Henry. Pte. (d.29th June 1918)
- Todd William. Pte. (d.18th July 1916)
- Ward Michael .
- Winters Thomas. Pte. (d.19th November 1916)
- Woolcock Alfred William Thacker. Pte. (d.7th February 1917)
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Cpl. Thomas Henry Housham 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers At the age of 17, Thomas Housham enlisted into the regular Army with the Wiltshire Regiment at Devises on 8th of September 1914. He was transferred to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on 17th of September 1914, joining the 6th (Service) Battalion at Naas, Southern Ireland. On 11th of July 1915, the Battalion sailed to Mitillini on the island of Levos, Greece off the west coast of Turkey. He was wounded in action and was posted on 23rd of August 1915 to Depot in Cork, Southern Ireland.
On 23ed of March 1916, Thomas was posted to the 1st Battalion, which was placed within the 86th Brigade, 29th Division and deployed to the Picardie, Flanders, and Normandy regions of France. On 28th of August, he was promoted to unpaid Lance Corporal during the battle of the Somme (he always stated this was because of his tea-making excellence). He was promoted to Corporal on 6th of March 1917. Wounded on the Somme, he was sent to 3rd (Reserve) Battalion to convalesce in Cork, Southern Ireland. Afterwards, in July 1917, he was assigned to the 1st Battalion in France and then to the 9th (Service) Battalion, which later become 8/9th Battalion. He also served with the 2nd Battalion.
In April 1918, he was assigned back to the 1st Battalion due to the 2nd Battalion being reduced to cadre. On 5th of October 1918, he was posted to Depot, which by all accounts was in the Grimsby area of England. On 5th of December 1918, he was posted to Command Depot in Tipperary, Southern Ireland. On 10 January 1919, he was sent to the dispersal area in Purfleet, Essex. One month later, on 9th Feb 1919, Thomas was demobbed at the age of 21.
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Pte. Patrick McCann 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers My great-grandfather, Patrick McCann, had been in the Royal Field Artillery until 1909. He was a labourer by trade and joined up for service in WW1 as a member of Kitchener's New Army.
He was deployed to France in December 1915. He was injured by machine-gun fire in both an arm and a leg and was discharged as unfit for further service in early 1919.
He suffered from shell-shock and would roam the house at night with a cudgel waiting for the Germans. His 12 year old son John had to commit him to Grangegorman Asylum in Dublin in 1922 after he attacked his wife and nearly killed her. He died in November 1922.
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Pte. Michael Leonard 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Michael Leonard served with the 9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
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A/Cpl Joseph Brookes 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.28th Sep 1918 ) The informal will of Acting Corporal Joseph Brookes is one of the 9000 wills of Irish soldiers who died during the Great War. Joseph had left all his property to his daughter who lived at Greenock. His death was caused by a cerebral tumour. Joseph was buried at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey UK. The spelling of his name on the official Accounts 4 documents, the War Office Department who administered soldiers wills is spelt Brooks. However Joseph signed his will as Brookes with an e. This is also how his name is spelt on his CWGC stone at Brookwood.
He died at the No 2 General Hospital, Chelsea London.
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Pte. Alfred William Thacker Woolcock 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.7th February 1917) Alfred Woolcock served with the 9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers in WW1. He was 44 years of age when he was killed in action on 7th of February 1917 on the Belgian front near Kemmel.
He joined the regiment at Swansea shortly before it went to France in December 1915 and would surely have been considered an old man compared to the majority of his comrades.
He had worked in Swansea docks for at least 5 years before joining up. It must have been difficult to see so many young men go off to fight and it's assumed he felt he could no longer stay behind.
It's not known why he joined the Dublin Fusiliers (there were 4 other men killed during WW1 who did so from the Swansea area) but Alfred left behind a widow Sarah Ann and 2 young children. His son Fred was 3 years old when he watched his father march through the streets of Swansea, never to return.
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Sgt Patrick Joseph "Paddy" O'Neill MID 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Patrick is my grandad. He did not talk much of the war. I wish I had recorded what he did say, and perhaps got him to say more. He did tell us how they found urinating on their wooly socks and put them over their nose during Mustard Gas attacks worked better than the "useless" gas masks.
He fought in the Somme and Ypres. I have a parchment stating "gallant conduct and devotion to duty in the field March 9th 1917" also his name to be entered into the regimental records, but I don't know where to find more about that as he did not say.
He stayed in the Army and protected Michael Collins during the troubles in Ireland in the 1920s. He lived a good long life and died aged 86.
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Pte. George Coulter 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers George Coulter joined up on 8th of September 1914. He was transferred to 170th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers on 1st of April 1916.
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Pte. James Catlin 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.6th Sept 1916) James Catlin was my great uncle. The ironic thing was that when he was killed on the Somme in September his brother John Patrick Catlin was being held a prisoner in Frognoch Camp for his part in the 1916 Easter rising.
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Cpl. John Cosgrove 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.7th November 1914) Corporal Cosgrove was 49 when he died and is buried in the North-East corner of the Tullow (The Abbey) Cemetery, Co. Carlow, Ireland.
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Pte. Owen Foy 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.4th Jul 1918) Owen Foy is buried adjoining the South boundary of the Strade (Old Abbey) Cemetery, Templemore, Co. Mayo. Ireland.
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Pte. A. McBride 9th Btn, Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.29th June 1918) Private McBride was the Husband of Mrs. M. McBride, of Main St., Edenderry.
He is buried Near the South-West boundary of the Monasteroris Old Graveyard, Monasteroris, Co. Offaly, Ireland.
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Pte. James Catlin 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers James Catlin was killed in action on 6th September 1916 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument. James left his widow, Helen Catlin.
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Pte. Henry Reardon 9th Btn., Att. 1st Army Infantry School Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.29th June 1918)  Henry Reardon was born in Dublin city in 1896 (birth date estimated), where he lived with his family in his early years in the Guinness Trust Buildings, New Bride Street. He came from a family of tailors. By 1911, Henry had emigrated from Ireland and was living in Liverpool. Within a few years he enlisted in the 9th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Unfortunately Henrys military record did not survive. Private Henry Reardon, regiment number 27435, attached The First Army Infantry School.
We know from his army index card that Henry fought in the Western European theatre of war. His medal roll index card indicates Henry was awarded the Victory medal and the British War medal. He died in France on 29th June 1918. Henry did not die in action, but in the 25th General Hospital Hardelot from bronchial pneumonia. He was 22 years old.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cites Henrys burial place as Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas de Calais, France.
While Private Henry Reardon commenced his army service in the 9th Battalion RDF, according to his death certificate by 1918 he had transferred to the 1st Battalion RDF.
Henry's story was lost to our family and only recently have we been able to piece together some details of his life and death. Remarkably for us it was his first cousin Michael O'Reardon (who fought as a young 17-year-old in the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers at the Four Courts in the 1916 Rising and lived till 1982), who kept in touch with Henry's surviving family in Liverpool and had the family memorial card and Death Memorial Plaque in his effects when he died. It is with great pride that we, as an Irish family, remember both cousins Henry and Michael in this special year of centenaries 2016.
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Pte. Richard Kilford 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.9th June 1917) Richard Kilford is commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres.
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Pte. John Fennelly 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers John Fennelly also served with the 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers and in the Army Service Corps.
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L/Cpl. Stephen Alex Dooner 9th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.9th Sep 1916) Stephen Dooner was the son of Mrs Rose Anna Dooner nee Hyland, born 29 December 1895 in Dublin
He died on the 9th September 1916 possibly at the Battle of Ginchy in the Somme area.
He is my Grandmother's uncle and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
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Pte. Edward Brown 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.9th Sep 1916) Edward Brown was the son of Alexander and Mary Josephine Brown, of 44, St. Alban's Rd., Dublin.
He was killed in action age 24 and is buried in Serre Road Cemetery No. 2.
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Pte. John Brien 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.7th Sep 1916) John Brien was the son of Christopher and Mary Brien, of Black Horse Lane, Phoenix Park, Dublin.
He served with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 9th Battalion, and died of wounds aged 48 in September 1916.
He is buried in La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie, France.
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Pte. John Bray 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.16th Aug 1917) John Bray was the son of John and Ann Bray, of 4, Grants Row, Dublin; and husband of Minnie Bray, of 30, Wentworth Place, Dublin.
He served with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers 9th Battalion and was killed in action in Flanders in August 1917, aged 25.
He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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Pte. William Brady 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.6th Sep 1916) William Brady was born in Rathmines, Dublin, and also enlisted in Dublin. He was killed in action in France whilst fighting in the Trônes Wood and Leuze Wood sectors during the Battle of Guillemont. Private Brady is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
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