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2nd Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry
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Pte. Samuel Livingstone Sowden 2nd R.M. Battalion Royal Marine Light Infantry (d.3rd Jun 1917) Samuel Sowden was the husband of Winifred Ellen Sowden.
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Pte. James Alphonsus Kavanagh 2nd Btn. Royal Marine Light Infantry (d.3rd June 1916) James Kavanagh enlisted in Galway under age. He was born in 1900 in Cork and was a resident of Eyercourt, Galway.
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L/Cpl. Frank Boyd 2nd Royal Marine Battalion Royal Marine Light Infantry (d.13th Nov1916) Frank Boyd was the son of Henry Boyd, of Eaton Brae, Shankill, Co. Dublin.
He was killed in action aged 22 and remembered on a Special Memorial in Y-Ravine Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel.
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Lt. Harold Edwin Bennie 2nd Royal Marine Battalion (d.6th Feb 1917) Harold Bennie was the son of James and Agnes Bennie, of Dublin and served with the 2nd Royal Marine Battalion. He died of wounds at the Somme in February 1917 aged 28, and is buried in Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension.
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Pte. Joseph Carson 2nd Btn. Royal Marine Light Infantry (d.13th Nov 1916) Joseph Carson on the 13th November 1916 at the Battle of Ancre in the Somme, France. His memorial is on Pier 1A Thiepval Memorial.
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