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Clandeboye Camp
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Those known to have trained at Clandeboye Camp during the Great War 1914-1918. - McCann Vincent Myles. Spr.
- Tate James. Sgt. (d.1st July 1916)
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257865 Spr. Vincent Myles McCann 75th Field Company Royal Engineers Vincent McCann joined the British Army on 19th of September 1914. He was a fitter by trade, working in the Harland and Wolff shipyard from about 1910 to 1914 as an apprentice (during the time the Titanic was being built). His position in the company was as an Iron Turner or lathe operator.
He was initially posted to the 122nd Field Company and sent to train at Clandeboye Camp in Co. Down, Ireland, but friction between the Catholics and Protestants resulted in his being transferred to the 75th Field Company which was training at Moore Park, Kilworth in Co. Cork, Ireland.
His company was mobilized in July 1915 and they arrived in France in September, where they were attached to the 1st Guards Brigade, which was forming in the Lumbres region in Northern France. They took part in the Battle of Loos, and later in Ypres and the latter part of the Battle of the Somme, among many other battles.
He was demobilized in 1919.
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254754 Sgt. James Tate 13th (1st County Down) Battalion, C Company. Royal Irish Rifles (d.1st July 1916) James Tate was my great grandfather. he was born on 28 June 1896 in the townland of Dunbeg and he was the eldest son of Joseph and Sarah Tate (nee Craig). Prior to the outbreak of the Great War James Tate worked as a farmer and he was a member of the Killinchy contingent of the Ulster Volunteer Force. He enlisted in Downpatrick and trained at Clandeboye Camp before going to Seaford in Sussex and then to the Front in October 1915.
James married Grace Brown on 26th of August 1915 in Belmont Presbyterian Church while he was stationed in Seaford, Sussex. Grace was from 92 East Bread Street, Belfast, daughter of James Brown, a labourer.
They had a son named Joseph, who was born on 3rd of March 1916.
James was home for a short period of leave in May 1916 and he saw his son.
Less than two months later, Sergeant Tate was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He is buried in Serre Road Cemetery No.1, in France and is commemorated in Killinchy Parish Church of Ireland Church
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