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Pte. Augustine Fitzgerald
British Army 1st Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Kingston Upon Hull
(d.1st June 1917)
Aggy Fitzgerald was still a kid when, in 1913, he had been arrested for stealing toy guns from a crate at Hull Docks. He joined up in 1914 and instantly regretted it, his service record is one long list of AWOLs and drunk and disorderly. In 1916 he had an accident while cleaning his rifle, and he shot himself in the foot for which he received 3 months field punishment No.1.
He was killed by shellfire while bringing up water to the front for another regiment. A sad tale of a boy who thought he wanted to go to war, and when he did found it wasn't for him, but it was too late.
A/Sgt. Charles Fitzgerald DCM.
British Army 5th Btn. Northumberland Fusilers
Charles Fitzgerald was a sniper, and was awarded the DCM for conspicuous gallantry when he took charge of his section when his corporal was wounded. He was also in command of a squad of snipers and did 'invaluable' work.
L/Cpl. Ernest Fitzgerald
British Army 16th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:28 Pratt Street, Camden, London
(d.3rd September 1916)
Capt. G. T. Fitzgerald
Army Durham Light Infantry
L/Cpl. George Bernard Fitzgerald
British Army 1st Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Sunderland
(d.10th May 1917)
George Fitzgerald was killed in action on the 10th of May 917, aged 27 and is buried in the Etretat Churchyard Extension in France. He was the son of John and Ann Fitzgerald, of Sunderland.
Pte. Henry Fitzgerald MM.
British Army 110th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Limerick, Eire.
Does anyone have any information about my Grandfather, Henry Fitzgerald? He died before I was born and have very little knowledge about his service during the Great War when he was with 110th Field Ambulance.
Rflmn. James Fitzgerald
British Army 16th Btn. London Regiment
from:Penge
(d.1st October 1916)
Bugler. James Fitzgerald
Kings Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Btn.
from:London
In a service bible my uncle, James Fitzgerald wrote that he was at a Delhi state opening when he saw a bomb thrown at Viceroy Lord Harding. During his service he was stationed at Aldershot, Gosport, Ambala, Duyshai and Meerut.
Pte. Jeremiah Fitzgerald
British Army Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Cork, Ireland
Pte. John Henry Fitzgerald
British Army 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Liverpool
Gnr. John C. Fitzgerald
British Army 2nd Division Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery
from:Liverpool
(d.2nd Jan 1918)
Maurice FitzGerald
British Army Irish Guards
from:Limerick, Ireland
(d.4th Sep 1918)
Maurice FitzGerald served with the Irish Guards, he died of wounds on the 4th of September 1918
SRN. Annie Fitzgibbon
British Red Cross
My grandmother Annie Fitzgibbon worked alongside Red Cross nurses after she trained and during WW1 she nursed a soldier from the East Lancashire Brigade called Francis J. Tobin. They married in 1918 in Grangetown, Middlesborough. Annie became a community nurse and midwife and as Nurse Tobin was well known around the Saltburn, Lingdale and Ormesby area of Middlesborogh.
Pte. Michael FitzGibbon
British Army 1st Btn. Irish Guards
from:Milford, Charleville
(d.1st Jul 1918)
Michael FitzGibbon was the son of Mrs. Jane Fitzgibbon, of Kilbolane, Milford, Charleville. He is buried In the South-West part of the Shandrum Cemetery, Shandrum, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Pte. Alfred Hugh Fitzhugh
British Army 8th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Blackburn
(d.26th Sep 1915)
Alfred Fitzhugh enlisted in September 1914 and went to France in August 1915 He was 17 years old and a member of a gospel hall Sunday school in Blackburn, Lancashire. He is presumed to have been killed at the Battle of Loos but his body was never found. His name is on the Loos Memorial. He was the son of Ernest and Kate Fitzhugh of Blackburn.
Pte. Bertram George Fitzjohn
British Army 11th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Middlesex
Bertram George Fitzjohn was my step father, he served with 11th Btn. Middlesex Regiment.
L/Cpl. Francis Fitzmaurice
British Army 7th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Liverpool
(d.2nd August 1917)
Pte. Alexander Fitzpatrick
British Army 7th/8th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.10th Aug 1917)
Alexander Fitzpatrick, enlisted at Newry Co. Down and served with "A" Coy. 7th/8th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. He died age 19 on the 10th August 1917. He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (south face) in Jarrow and in Ypres on the Menin Gate Memorial. His medal card records the award of the War and Victory Medals.
He was born in Hartlepool, son of Joseph and Barbara Fitzpatrick. Alexander Fitzpatrick age 13 at school is with his parents Joseph and Barbara Fitzpatrick at 31 Swindon Street, Hebburn on the 1911 census.
Sgt. George Fitzpatrick
British Army 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers
from:Killaloe, County Clare
Pte. James Fitzpatrick
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.26th Apr 1915)
L/Cpl. James Fitzpatrick
British Army 1st Battalion, F Coy. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.25th July 1915)
James Fitzpatrick, was the son of James Fitzpatrick of 86 High Street Jarrow and late Isabella Fitzpatrick. He was born and enlisted Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is listed as aged 23, a Joiner is with his widowed father James Fitzpatrick at 86 High Street Jarrow on the 1911 census.
James died aged 27 on 25th July 1915 in Gallipoliand is remembered on the Helles Memorial, he is also commemorated on the Triptych at St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.
Pte. James Edward Fitzpatrick
British Army
from:Jarrow
James Edward Fitzpatrick is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Spr. P. Fitzpatrick
British Army Royal Engineers
from:Beauparc
Sapper Fitzpatrick was the husband of Teresa Fitzpatrick, of Rathdrina, Beauparc.
He died on the 29th December 1919 and is buried in the South-East part of the Knockcommon Cemetery, Knockcommon, Co. Meath, Ireland.
Pte. Thomas Fitzpatrick
Canadian Army 16th Btn. Canadian Infantry
Private Fitzpatrick died on the 2nd October 1920 and is buried In the North-East part of the Staghall Catholic Churchyard, Drumlane, Co. Cavan, Ireland.
Nurse. Ivonne Fitzroy
British Red Cross
from:55 Lower Melgrave Street, Morley
Ivonne FitzRoy volunteered as a nurse from September 1914, she worked 8 hours a week at Morley Manor Red Cross Hospital and Egginton Hall Red Cross Hospital.
Sgt. James Fitzsimmons DCM.
British Army 2/7th Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment
from:Seaforth Street, Liverpool
2nd Lt. John Vincent Fitzsimmons
British Army 11th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Carlisle
Wounded in January 1918, John Fitzsimmons was taken by ambulance to a casualty clearing station in Ballieul. He had been laying wire and came to in the CCS. The medics reckoned he was a goner but he survived. John had piece of shrapnel in his side and a wound in his forearm. When he joined up in 1915 as a private, his father had given him a silver hip flask and silver cigarette case. They were stolen from him by the medics.
Cpl. Joseph Fitzsimmons
British Army 2nd Btn. Coldstream Guards
from:Grasslot, Cumbria
Joseph Fitzsimmons served with the 2nd Coldstream Guards. I am doing research for our local Maritime museum at Maryport and have been given copy from a Newspaper at the time: "Grasslot Man's Appeal From the Trenches. Big Guns Remind Him of the Bells. Corporal Joseph Fitzsimmons of the 2nd Battalion the Coldstream Guards, and formerly of Grasslot in a further letter to his friend, Mr. R. Edgar, Grasslot says he spent Christmas and New Year in the trenches. On New Years Eve the bullets were flying, and the guns singing over the trenches put him in mind of the bells ringing in England. He is now a few miles back from the firing line having a rest after being in the trenches for two weeks. They had a hot time again, and lost a lot of men. They were up to the waist in mud and water, and had to stick it all the time. The Germans were only 50 yards away in some places, and tried very hard to make the British leave their trenches by throwing bombs into them. "But," says Corporal Fitzsimmons, "that did not matter we stuck in like real old British soldiers who never say die. The trenches were in a turnip field and they were flooded out with water. We had to wade among it all the time and it rained very nearly every day, and was very cold as well. Corporal Fitzsimmons goes on to state that he received a parcel of socks from the mission at Grasslot for which he is very grateful. He expresses his pleasure that Mr. Edgar's brother has enlisted, and mentions that his own brother is now in France, though he has not seen him yet. He has seen nobody he knows from Maryport yet, though he looks out for them every day. In his few leisure moments in the trenches Corporal Fitzsimmons composed the following verses. Coming straight from the battlefield, written to the awful music of the guns, they make a splendid appeal by one who has been at the front from the very first, and has engaged in some of the hardest fighting :-
Sat. 9th January"
- When you're drinking your tots of whisky,
- And you're smoking your fat cigar,
- And your eyes have brightly twinkled
- At the girl behind the bar ; Just think of Tommy Atkins
- In his cold wet trench of clay,
- With nothing much to cheer him
- But his rations for the day.
- When you've discussed the latest victories
- Of the Russians and the French,
- When you've praised aloud our gallant troops
- For fighting in the trench ;
- When you've stated to your comrades
- Your opinion of the fight
- And look upon the prospect
- In many a different light ;
- Have you ever thought about yourself
- And the bit that you could do ?
- Has Kitchener to shout in vain -
- "Your country has need of you !"
- Put on you khaki uniform, And leave your feather bed ;
- They can never say you shirked it
- When Danger lay ahead.
J. F. Fitzsimons
British Army 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. Alfred Flack
British Army 23rd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
(d.8th June 1917)
A dead man's penny for Alfred Flack has come into my family and I am trying to find out how he fits into our family.
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