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Those known to have served withConnaught Rangers during the Great War 1914-1918. - Ambrose Patrick. Pte 2nd Battalion
- Armstrong Charles. Pte. 6th Btn.
- Atwell Robert Erskine. Lt. 4th Btn. (d.2nd Sep 1918)
- Bannerman James. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.8th Feb 1917)
- Bannon John. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.20th Sep 1914)
- Battersby A. W.. Lt. 4th Bn. attd. Nigeria Regiment, WAFF (d.8th June 1915)
- Beatty Eric Edge. Lt. 6th Btn (d.4th Apr 1916)
- Begley Henry Frederick. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.27th Jul 1919)
- Berney David. L/Sgt. 2nd Btn. (d.1st Nov 1914)
- Blacker Cecil Francis. Lt. 2nd Btn. (d.6th September 1914)
- Blake Alfred Joseph William. T/Lt. 5th Battalion (d.21st Aug 1915)
- Bolger Patrick. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Bolger Peter. Sgt. (d.1st Nov 1917)
- Booth Edwun F.. L/Cpl. 6th Btn. (d.3rd Aug 1917)
- Bowles Augustine. Sgt. 2nd Btn. (d.10th Sep 1918)
- Boylan Robert. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.23rd Nov 1914)
- Brady F.. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.12th August 1915)
- Brennan Louis J.. Sgt. 1st Garrison Btn. (d.4th May 1917)
- Brennan Michael. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.2nd May 1916)
- Brockie George. Sgt. 5th Btn. (d.10th Sep 1915)
- Broderick Alfred. Pte 6th Btn (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Brophy Bernard. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.21st Aug 1918)
- Brophy William. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.21st Jan 1916)
- Bytheway Richard. Pte. 5th Battalion (d.22nd August 1915)
- Callaghan T.. Pte. 1st Btn.
- Casey John. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.11th March 1915)
- Casey John. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.21st March 1918)
- Casey Peter. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.23rd June 1917)
- Casey Peter. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.23rd June 1917)
- Cassidy T.. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.1st May 1918)
- Clarke William James Thomas. Pte.
- Clarke William. Sgt. 3rd Btn. (d.29th May 1915)
- Conway Michael. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.27th Dec 1915)
- Cox DCM. John Thomas. Sgt.
- Cummins J. Pte 5th Battalion (d.10th November 1918)
- Daly James Joseph. Pte. 1st Btn.
- Daly James Joseph. Pte. 1st Btn.
- Delaney W. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.29th Nov 1920)
- Devers John Joseph. Pte. C Coy. 1st Btn.
- Dixon M.. Sjt. 6th Btn. (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Donnelly Michael. 3rd Battalion, E Company.
- Dunne Michael. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.3rd May 1916)
- Dunne Patrick. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Durkan John V.. L/Sgt. 4th Btn. (d.22nd April 1916)
- Eccleston William. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.11th Aug 1915)
- Elvidge Laurence. 2nd Lt. 5th Btn. (d.9th Aug 1916)
- Evers Michael. L/Cpl. 1st Btn. (d.2nd Nov 1914)
- Feeney Patrick. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.22nd July 1915)
- Ferguson John. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.11th Jul 1917)
- Fielding DSO. Rowland. Lt. Col. 6th Btn.
- Finan Frank Mark. Pte. 10th Btn (d.24th Aug 1918)
- Finnerty John. Pte. 2nd Btn
- Fitzpatrick George. Sgt. 6th Btn.
- Flynn Charles. CSM. 2nd Btn
- Flynn Patrick. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.21st Mar 1918)
- Flynn Thomas. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.26th February 1915)
- Fogarty James William. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.21st June 1917)
- Fowley Thomas. Pte. 4th (Extra Reserve) Btn. (d.18th Oct 1915)
- Frick Oscar. L/Cpl. 2nd Bn. attd. Connaught Rangers (d.8th July 1916)
- Gavaghan Thomas. Pte. 7th Btn (d.5th Sep 1916)
- Gilkes Frederick John. Bdmn. 3rd Btn. (d.6th Sep 1916)
- Hardy Jocelyn L.. Lt.
- Hog Archibald Swinton. Capt. 5th Btn. (d.20th August 1915)
- Holain Stephan. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.24th June 1915)
- Jackson David. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.21st March 1918)
- Jones Joseph. L/Sgt. 3rd Btn. (d.10th Oct 1918)
- Jourdain Henry. Lt.Col. 5th Btn.
- Kelly Patrick Joseph. Pte. 5th Battalion (d.8th Oct 1918)
- Killoran Patrick. Pte. 5th Btn
- Knox Michael. Pte. 5th Btn
- Lalor Eugene. Pte. 6th Btn
- Lawrence William John. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.15th August 1915)
- Lenox-Conyngham J. A.M.. Lt.Col. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Lyons Eugene. L/Cpl. 6th Btn. (d.15th Feb 1918)
- Lyons John. Cpl. 5th Btn. (d.4th April 1915)
- Maguire Hugh. 2nd Lt 6th Btn (d.9th Sept 1916)
- Mallins Claude O'Conor. Lt. 2nd Btn. (d.2nd Nov 1914)
- Mason John. Pte 5th Battalion
- McClure T. A.. 2nd Lt. (d.28th May 1918)
- McDonnell MID John. Rifleman
- McGlade Daniel. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.31st Jul 1916)
- McHale Joseph. Pte.
- McKeever John. Pte 6th Btn (d.8th March 1917)
- McMahon John. Pte. (d.2nd Sep 1916)
- Moran E. P.. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.29th Sep 1919)
- Murphy Patrick James. Pte. 1st Battalion (d.April 1916)
- O'Keeffe Robert. Sgt. 1st Garrison Btn. (d.17th April 1917)
- O'Leary Henry. RSM 1st Btn. (d.3rd November 1915)
- O'Mahony Daniel Joseph. Sgt.
- O'Neill Denis. Pte. 6th (Service) Btn. (d.31st Jan 1918)
- Patton Thomas James. Rflmn. 10th (South Belfast) Btn. (d.1st July 1916)
- Reynolds B.. Pte. (d.8th October 1916)
- Reynolds Michael. Pte. (d.5th March 1915)
- Round Enoch. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.21st Aug 1915)
- Sarsfield William Stopford. Mjr. 2nd Btn (d.20th Sep 1914)
- Scott J. Pte. 3rd Btn. (d.4th Dec 1918)
- Shields Thomas. Pte (d.6th April 1917)
- Smith Michael. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.9th Sep 1916)
- Toohey DCM. Michael. Pte. 1st Btn.
- Tosh James. Pte 6th Battalion (d.26th July 1916)
- Trainor Foster James. Pte. 3rd Battalion, D Company
- Tyrrell John. Pte. 4th Btn. (d.8th February 1916)
- Verth William David.
- Wallace Andrew. Pte. 6th Btn.
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263711 Pte. Thomas Gavaghan 7th Btn Royal Irish Fusiliers (d.5th Sep 1916) Thomas Gavaghan served with the 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers
and was Killed In Action on 5th of September 1916.
Thomas and his comrades dug in at a German stronghold of Falfemont Farm taken earlier that day. They later assaulted a nearby trench known as Combles Trench. As the Battalion struggled through a waist-high corn field mixed with dense weeds and hidden barbed-wire entanglements, the battalion was attacked by heavy German machine-gun fire which cut them apart. The battalion was decimated with the casualty figures for the day at 273 men. Thomas's body was never recovered and his name is carved into the Thiepval Memorial. He had previously served with the Connaught Rangers.
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263232 Pte. John Ferguson 1st Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.11th Jul 1917) John Ferguson was my great-uncle, my grandmother's brother. He was underage when he signed up. He was gassed at the Somme and suffered other illnesses and was hospitalised. He was killed near Baghdad.
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262530 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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258539 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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257840 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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257410 CSM. Charles Flynn 2nd Btn Connaught Rangers My Great Grandfather Charles Flynn served with the Connaught Rangers from 1885 to 1908 and then signed up again during WWI from the reserves.
My Grandfather also fought during the Great War with 2nd Battalion Connaught Rangers and was eventually a CSM at the end of the war.
My Great Grandfather Norman McKay served with the Connaught Rangers and retired in 1912 but resigned during the Great War.
and my Uncle Bert James was a Lieutenant Colonel with the British Army and served in the Connaught Rangers during WWI. There are more family members who served, but I do not have the records at present.
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256960 Pte. John Joseph Devers C Coy. 1st Btn. Connaught Rangers My Grandfather James Devers was born in Ballina in 1899.
He enlisted in the Connaught Rangers on the 14th of August 1914.
James married Mary Canavan in 1904 and he married her again in 1920.
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255929 Sgt. John Thomas Cox DCM. Connaught Rangers John Cox was awarded the DCM for actions on The Somme.
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253479 Pte John Mason 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers John Mason was one of seven children in his family from Blackpool in County Cork, Ireland.
He fought in the First World War, only to die in February 1919 from the Spanish Flu
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251516 Pte Thomas "Dennis" Shields Connaught Rangers (d.6th April 1917) Thomas Shields served with the Connaught Rangers I don't know much about Thomas. He was my grand uncle. He is buried in North Gate Cemetery in Baghdad. I don't have any photo.
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249344 Pte. Foster James Trainor 3rd Battalion, D Company Connaught Rangers My great uncle, Foster Trainor, an American citizen, born in Plattsburgh, NY and lived in Schenectady, New York, joined the Connaught Rangers in 1914 at 19 years old. He was in the 3rd Battalion, D Company. He signed up in St. Pancras, London and discharged as a Private in Kinsale, Ireland.
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248107 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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247419 William David "Jock" Verth Connaught Rangers William Verth was a British Home Child, sent to Canada by the Quarrier scheme.
He at some point escaped Canada enlisted with the Connaught Rangers.
He nearly lost his leg at Messines and was sent to Hanworth to convalescence.
We do know that there was a young lady, Daisy Jewell who worked at the hospital and they fell in love and married.
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245998 Pte. Richard Bytheway 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers (d.22nd August 1915) Richard Bytheway was born in Crich, but somehow ended up in the Connaught Rangers, an Irish Regiment. He landed at Gallipoli on the 21st of July 1915, and exactly one month later died in the stupid attack on Hill 60. His date of death is put as 21st/22nd of August 1915 as they're not sure.
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243421 Pte. Thomas Fowley 4th (Extra Reserve) Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.18th Oct 1915) Thomas Fowley of the 4th Connaught Rangers died of illness and is buried in Ballynakilla Cemetery.
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242761 Pte. J Scott 3rd Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.4th Dec 1918) Private Scott is buried In the South-East part of the Willmount Cemetery, Killora, Co. Galway, Ireland.
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242759 L/Sgt. Joseph Jones 3rd Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.10th Oct 1918) Joseph Jones was the son of Mrs. B. Jones of 11, Upper Quarry Lane, Clarence St., Cork.
He was 35 when he died and is buried in the South part of the Whitechurch Cemetery, Whitechurch, Co. Cork, Ireland.
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242684 Pte. Stephan Holain 2nd Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.24th June 1915) Private Holain was 26 when he died and is buried In the South part of the Tuam New Cemetery, Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland.
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242660 2nd Lt. T. A. McClure Connaught Rangers (d.28th May 1918) Second Lieutenant McClure was the Son of Mrs. McClure, of 7, Burdett Avenue, Sandycove, Dun Laoghaire.
He is buried About 4 yards West of the East path in the Toberclare Catholic Churchyard, Kilkenny, Co. West Meath, Ireland.
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242357 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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