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Royal Munster Fusiliers
Regular Battalions: - 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 3rd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 4th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 5th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
Kitchener's New Army: - 1st Garrison Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 2nd Garrison Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 6th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 7th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 8th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
- 9th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
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1206546 Sgt. Arthur O'Brien 8th Bn. C Coy. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.4th Sep 1916) Arthur o'Brien died of wounds on the 4th of September 1916, aged 29 and is buried in the Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
Arthur left Wexford, Ireland to fight with the Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was wounded during the battle of the Somme and never returned to Ireland. He left behind a loving wife (Martha O'Brien) and three children - Catherine, Patrick & Thomas.
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1206324 L/Cpl. Denis Hickey 1st Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.27th Nov 1915) Denis Hickey served with the 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers during WW1 and was killed in action on the 27th November 1915. He is remembered on the Helles Memorial.
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1206205 Pte. John Mahony 8th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.29th July 1916) John Mahoney died on 29th July 1916, aged 25. This photo is taken from an oil painting of John, specially commissioned by Bridget following his death. Inset, is his Widow, Bridget who never remarried and died in 1972. They were married just 10 days when he moved with his Battalion to Ypres in 1915.
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263978 Pte. Patrick Creedon MM. 1st Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers Patrick Creedon served with the 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. He later served in the 2nd Battalion
He was awarded the Military Medal for Gallantry which was gazetted on 21st of October 1916.
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263320 Pte. Patrick Creedon MM. 1st Btn Royal Munster Fusiliers Patrick Creedon was born in Cork, Ireland in September 1897.
He served as a Private in the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, as an Acting Corporal in the Royal Irish Rifles and an Acting Corporal in the Labour Corps.
Patrick was listed in the Casualty Lists on and was awarded the Military Medal on 23rd of October 1916.
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257933 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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257603 Pte. Denis Healy 8th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers Denis Healy served with the 8th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers and the 1st Garrison Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers in WW1.
He had served in South Africa with the the North Cork Militia 9th (Militia) Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corpsfrom 1st of May 1893 to 2nd of May 1903.
On 24th of August 1915 at age 44 Denis Healy rejoined the army this time serving with The Royal Munster Fusiliers0. He served in France from 19th of December 1915 to 7th of July 1917, which entitled him to the 1915 Star Medal. It would appear from the initial date in France that he would have been with the 8th Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, which was formed in
Sep/Oct 1914 at Fermoy as part of the Second New Army, then moved to Mitchelstown, County Cork and joined the 47th Brigade of the 16th Division.
In 1915 Moved to Templemore in February then back to Fermoy in May then in September to Blackdown, Aldershot.
On the 18th of December 1915 they mobilised for war and landed at Havre.
They were engaged in various actions on the Western Front including, The Battle of Guillemont and The Battle of Ginchy.
On the 23rd of November 1916 the Battalion was disbanded in France and the remaining personnel moved to the 1st Battalion which transferred to the 47th Brigade of the 16th Division and continued to engage in action on the Western Front.
During 1917 he saw action in The Battle of Messines, The first Battle of Cambrai, Third Battles of Ypres.
We then have a gap in Denis's service from 7th of July 1917 to 22nd of December 1917. Could he have been recovering from multiple neuritis at that time? He may have been admitted to the Royal Hospital Chelsea as an award of a War Disablement Pension was subsequently made in respect of the condition multiple neuritis, regrettably no payment details remain at The War Pensions Agency.
Presumably, on 22nd of December 1917 he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers and according to the RIF Attestation Book he served in India until 25th of September 1920. He was discharged in Dublin on 23rd of November 1920 with his address given as 25 Gould Street, Cork. It appears that the only RIF battalion in India was the 1st Garrison Btn RIF which in February 1916 had deployed to India and in May 1917 deployed to Burma.
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257416 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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257296 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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256793 2nd Lt. Mark Huston McCormick Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.23rd April 1917) Mark McCormick served with the Royal Munster Fusiliers in WW1. He died 23rd of April 1917 and is remembered on the Arras Memorial in France. At the time of his death, Mark was attached to the 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
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255263 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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254931 Pte Harold Ernest Hemingway 2nd Btn 2nd Btn Royal Munster Fusiliers King's Own Yorkshire Li (d.31st Dec 1917) Joined the Yorkshire Light Infantry and then for some reason transferred to The Royal Munster Fusiliers 2nd Battalion.
Served in France where he was injured and repatriated to the Leeds war hospital at Becket Street where he died on 1917-12-31
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253847 Sgt. Charles Hart 6th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.15th Aug 1915) Charles Hart was my Mother's Father, who was born in February 1870. He enlisted in the Army on the 14th of Feb 1884,
Height 4ft. 5ins. Weight 68lbs. He was promoted to Corporal on the 18th of July 1899, then to Serjeant on the 1st of Jan 1890. He served in 2nd Boer War and received QSA Medal.
Having completed 21 years and 116 days service with Royal Munster Fusiliers, he returned to Southwark.
Charles was recalled for WW1 and was killed in action on the 15th of August 1915 at Gallipoli.
He left a wife and 10 children.
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253630 Pte Martin Duhig Royal Munster Fusiliers Recently discovered through army records that Martin Duhig, of Limerick, Ireland who served in the Royal Munster Fusiliers was a prisoner of war at Giessen.
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253613 Pte Richard Healy 1st Btn Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.28th Jun 1915) My husband's grandfather and two brothers fought in the war. It was only when I showed a relation's father the 1910 census that he said "I never remember having an uncle Richard" that I was able to put a name on the brother that never came back.
Having looked into it I found out he was killed in Gallipoli.
I wonder does anyone know of any group that arrange tours of the Gallipoli?
Thanking you. Deirdre
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253140 L/Cpl. Jeremiah McSweeney 2nd Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.9th Oct 1915) Lance Corporal Jeremiah McSweeney was the son of John and Anne McSweeney. He died on the 9th October 1915 from wounds. He is buried in Lapugnoy Military Cemetery remembered with honour. He was aged 30 years.
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252889 Pte. John Bradshaw 6th Btn. Royal Munster Fusilliers (d.1958) John Bradshaw served with the 6th and 2nd Battalions, Royal Munster Fusiliers.
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252797 Pte. Justin McCarthy 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers Justin McCarthy served with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. All I know of my grandfather's service record was that he joined up in 1914 from the Tralee Barracks in Kerry. He fist saw action in Mons after arriving in France in September 1914. He saw action throughout the war.
He was buried alive for 3 days, reported missing presumed killed in action. He suffered gas attack injuries but returned home after the war and married and had 4 children. He died of throat cancer in 1961.
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250682 Cpl. Ralph King 2nd Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.4th October 1918) Ralph King served with 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers.
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249317 Pte. William O'Brien 7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers William O'Brien was born and raised in Tipperary Town and enlisted in May 1915 whilst the 49th Brigade were stationed at the town barracks. He was assigned to the 7th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, a part of the 16th Irish Division.
After initial training they embarked for England and were stationed at Pirbright in Surrey for more training whilst waiting to be posted overseas. They were sent to the Ypres sector in early 1916 and were holding trenches at Hulluch where they and several other Irish battalions were gassed during Easter Week 1916.
William saw some of the worst fighting on the Somme in September that year at Combles, Guillemont and Ginchy. After heavy losses the 7th Battalion was amalgamated with the 8th to form the 7th/8th. William continued to serve with them throughout 1917 serving at Passchendaele and Cambrai until the Battalion was disbanded in early 1918 and he transferred to 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers. He saw out the war with them eventually being discharged as medically unfit in June 1919.
He was given the Silver War Badge, British War Medal and Victory Medal. He was proud of his war service but it must have been difficult in the post war years as the local area was heavily involved in the War of Independence against Crown forces. All of William's sons went on to serve in either the Irish or British army including my grandfather and his youngest son Patrick was killed in action in Germany in April 1945.
William worked as a jarvey and died in Tipperary Town in the early 1950s and is buried in St Mary's Churchyard.
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