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7th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
7th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers were raised at Tralee in August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army and joined 30th Brigade, 10th (Irish) Division. They moved to the Curragh for training and in May 1915 moved to Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, England. On the
9th of July they sailed from Liverpool for Gallipoli via Mudros. They landed at Sulva Bay on the 7th of August 1915 and made an attack on Chocolate Hill on the 7th and 8th. The 29th Brigade landed at Anzac Cove and went into action on Sari Bair between the 7th and 10th of August then went on to attack Hill 70 later in the month. They were withdrawn from Gallipoli on the 29th of September 1915 to Mudros, moving to Salonika, landing between the 5th and 10th of October. On the 7th and 8th of December they were in action at Kosturino, in the retreat from Serbia. Some units of the Division were in action at the Karajakois and Yenikoi in late September and early October. On the 3rd of November 1917 they were absorbed by the 6th Munster Fusiliers.
7th Aug 1915 In Action
8th Aug 1915 Holding the Line
21st Aug 1915 Advance
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
13th May 1917 Bombardment
15th May 1917 Attack Made
16th May 1917 Counter Attack
18th August 1917 Orders
1st Sep 1917 On the Move
5th Sep 1917 On the Move
22nd Sep 1917 On the Move
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Those known to have served with7th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great War 1914-1918. - Bennett Francis Evans. 2nd Lt. (d.8th Aug 1915)
- Canning Michael. L/Cpl. (d.9th Aug 1915)
- Cullinan Robert Hornidge. Capt. (d.8th Aug 1915)
- Hall Frederick George. Cpl. (d.16th August 1915)
- Heald Edwin. Pte.
- John Lyddy. Pte. (d.4th October 1915)
- Marshall Thomas Leslie. Cpl.
- Menzies Sydney James. Pte. (d.1921)
- Monaghan William. L/Cpl (d.9th August 1915)
- O'Toole John.
- Westhead Thomas. Pte.
- Whyte John Stanley. Lt.
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Cpl. Thomas Leslie Marshall 2nd Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers Thomas Marshall served with the 2nd, 6th and 7th Battalions, Royal Munster Fusiliers in WW1.
He served with the 7th Battalion at Gallipoli. The 6th Battalion, he was with on 3rd of November 1916 in the Balkans, Salonika and he fought in Palestine and was with the 2nd Battalion in France 5th of June 1918.
Thomas was eventually discharged on 31st of March 1920.
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Lt. John Stanley Whyte 7th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers John Whyte served with the 7th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Engineers in WW1.
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L/Cpl William Monaghan 7th Btn Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.9th August 1915) William Monaghan served with the 7th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers in WW1. He died 9th of August 1915 and is remembered on the Helles Memorial in Turkey.
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Pte. Sydney James Menzies 3rd Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment (d.1921) Sydney Menzies joined the 3rd Dorset Regiment in Sept 1914 and was attached to the 7th Royal Munster Fusiliers.
He entered the theatre of war on 15th of October 1915 in the Balkans. He is believed to have fought at Kosturino and also saw service in France on the Somme and Belgium at Ypres.
He was gassed twice in the war and died of the effects of the 2nd gassing in 1921.
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Cpl. Frederick George Hall 7th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.16th August 1915) Frederick Hall served with the 7th Royal Munster Fusiliers.
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John O'Toole 7th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers John O'Toole served with the 7th Royal Munster Fusiliers and the
Royal Irish Rifles
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Capt. Robert Hornidge Cullinan 7th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.8th Aug 1915) Robert Cullinan was the son of John and Martha Cullinan of 6 Bendon St., Ennis, Co. Clare. He was a member of the Munster Bar.
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L/Cpl. Michael Canning 7th (Service) Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.9th Aug 1915) Michael Canning was born in Dublin in 1877. His father worked as a foreman in the forwarding department of Guinness' at St James Gate in Dublin. He and his family lived at various addresses around Thomas Court in the Liberties of Dublin. At an early age his mother died. Shortly afterwards his father was laid off by Guinness for being drunk on the job. It seems that his father struggled to cope with raising five children alone and he put the children into care. By the age of sixteen Michael and his siblings were formally orphaned when his father died in a workshouse in Dublin. At eighteen, Michael signed up with the Royal Inniskillng Fusiliers in Omagh and shortly thereafter was sent to India where he served in the Tirah Campaign. While in India his younger sister was picked up for begging on the streets in Dublin. She was admitted to care and on admission was described as being blind. Michael Canning served in India and what is now Afghanistan for a number of years before his battalion was posted to South Africa near the end of the Boer War. Shortly after arriving in Africa his record lists him as being imprisoned for an unspecified crime. He appears to have been in the same prison as 'Breaker Morant' just two weeks after Morant was executed. After three months in prison he returned to service. At the end of the Boer War the 2nd Inniskilling were posted to Egypt where he spent the next six years. He eventually returned to Ireland around 1912 and tried to return to civilian life. His family in Dublin had all moved on so he moved to Limerick where his brother Lawrence had relocated and was working on the railway.
At the outbreak of World War One, Michael Canning reinlisted in the British Army in Limerick and joined the newly formed Royal Munster Fusiliers 7th Service Battalion. Due to his prior service he was given the slightly elevated rank of Lance Corporal. The 7th Munsters trained in Mallow and in Basingstoke in the UK before embarking by sea to take part in the efforts at Gallipoli. Following a short stop off at Mudros in Greece, he arrived on the shores of Gallipoli as part of the August offensive on 7th August 1915.
Michael Canning was my great uncle. He died within a couple of days on the beaches of Turkey. His body was not recovered. We don't have a photo or his medals but we have rediscovered and researched his story which was lost to the family for a number of years. He is remembered on Helles Memorial at Gallipoli.
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