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John McCarthy
British Army Highland Light Infantry
My Granddad was John McCarthy, I have a copy of a letter to the War Pensioners' Welfare Services in Dublin, where he was living. It says that he served in the Highland Light Infantry and was discharged 21st March 1919. it seems he was in the Munster Fusiliers before the HLI. I know he received medals for Mons, Somme & Arras and was wounded twice.
CSM John McCarthy
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
(d.8th Jan 1916)
Thanks to this site I have located my grandfather's grave site, a place we as a family could never visit, until now. He was CSM John McCarthy of the 4th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers, and who died 8th January 1916.
I will be visiting his grave in Douglas this Saturday. Due to family circumstances my Dad did not know where his father was buried. My Dad passed in 1985 but now as a family we can make this link. Again many thanks.
Pte. Justin McCarthy
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Tralee, Co. Kerry Ireland
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.
Pte. Laurence McCarthy
British Army 49th Btn. Machine Gun Corps
from:Step lane, Cork, Ireland
(d.16th Oct 1918)
Laurence McCarthy died in hospital in France from wounds received in battle on the 16th October 1918. His brother died from illness in a German prisoner of war camp on the 25 of August 1918.
Pte. Laurence Mccarthy
British Army 49th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Cork City
(d.16th October 1918)
L.Sto. P. McCarthy
Royal Navy HMS Bellerophon
Leading Stoker P McCarthy died on the 19th January 1919 and is buried in the east part of the Ballymacoda (the Hill) Old Graveyard, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Spr. Patrick McCarthy
British Army 263rd Railway Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Glasgow
Patrick McCarthy was my great-great-uncle. He was born and reared in Limerick, Ireland, and worked for 3 years in Guinness, Dublin before emigrating to Glasgow in 1914. He joined the Kings Own Scottish Borderers in 1916 and deployed to France in 1917 with the Royal Engineers.
Pte. Richard McCarthy
British Army 15th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Manchester
(d.1st July 1916)
Richard McCarthy enlisted with his pals and before the war he worked at Manchester Victoria Train Station, in which he is commerated on the Great War plaque there. We know he lost his life serving King and Country on the 1st July 1916. His final resting place is at Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval, Somme, France.
Pte. Samuel McCarthy
British Army 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:121 Cornwall Street, St George in the East, London
Samuel McCarthy served from 1908, with the 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment in India. He transferred to the 2nd Battalion and served in France in the 2nd Battle of Ypres for 4 months before being captured and taken as a prisoner of war for 3 and a half years. He was demobbed 1919, settled in East London where he got married and raised a family of 4 children. He died in 1946.
AMech3. Thomas McCarthy
Royal Flying Corps
(d.16th Mar 1918)
Air Mechanic 3rd Class Thomas McCarthy is buried in the south-west corner, close to the gate of the Castletown Kinneigh Cemetery, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Spr. William Cuthbert McCarthy MM.
British Army 206th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Jarrow
(d.3rd Dec 1918)
William Cuthbert McCarthy served as a Sapper with the 206th Field Company Royal Engineers and was awarded the Military Medal. He was aged 23 when he died on 3rd December 1918. Born in Westoe in 1895, he lived in East Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as William Cuthbert McCarthy age 15 Colliery Worker above ground living with his parents Robert and Margaret Ann (nee Gray) McCarthy and family at 25 Simonside Terrace, East Jarrow.
William is buried in Soumoy Communal Cemetery.
Pte. William Daniel McCarthy
British Army 1st Btn. Hampshire Regiment
from:Higland Street, Portsmouth
(d.4th Oct 1917)
William McCarthy
British Army Army Service Corps
William McCarthy served with Army Service Corps
Cpl. James Horsley "Norval" McCartney
British Army 6th Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers
from:Edinburgh
(d.7th July 1916)
My uncle, James Horsley McCartney, was born in 1895 and joined the 2nd Battalion of the KOSB in Leith probably in late 1914 and was sent to France on the 9th February 1915. He was transferred to the 6th Battalion as a corporal and was killed at Bernafay Wood during shelling whilst he was replenishing stores to the front line on the 7th July 1916. I found out about my Uncle Norval when I was a little boy from my mother who did not know any of the details about him, his regiment or where and when he died. Apparently his death was such a blow to my grandparents that he was never spoken of after this tragic event. I feel that despite the pain that still lingers over the deaths of so many young men their memory should never be erased from this earth. My children and grandchildren have been told his story and copies of his medals and scroll are on prominent display in my home to remind everyone who sees them of the pride and love we have for him.
Private John William "Jack" McCartney
Army 25th battalion King's Regiment ÃÆ??Ã?Ã? (Liverpool)
from:Everton, Liverpool, .
Pte. John Browne McCartney
Canadian Expeditionary Force 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles)
from:New York, USA
Sgt. Robert McCartney
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
(d.9th April 1917)
Robert McCartney is buried in Rollincourt Valley
Sgt. Albert Alexander McCarty
British Army 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.1st June 1919)
Pte. Bernard McCarty
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Birtley
Bernard McCarty was wounded in October 1916
Pte. James McCarty
British Army 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Bill Quay.
(d.4th May 1916)
James McCarty served with the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, he was aged 26 when he died on 4th May 1916. He was born and enlisted in Jarrow. Native of Hebburn, on the 1911 census he is listed as James McCarty age 18 Rivet Heater in Cammell Laird Shipyard is lodging with a number of other lads from South Tyneside at 9 Stanley Street, Tranmere, Birkenhead. He was the husband of Agnes Hall McCarty (nee Gidney) of 58 Coxon Street Bill Quay.
James is buried in Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (south face) Jarrow.
Pte. John McCauley
British Army 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.26th May 1915)
John McCauley served with the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers and was aged 30 when he died on 26th May 1915. Born in 1884 in Jarrow he was the son of Mary Ann McCauley and husband of Catherine McCauley (nee McLaughlan) of 42 Cambrian Street Jarrow.
John is buried in Brandhoek Military Cemetery and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.
Rflmn. Robert McCauley
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.17th June 1916)
Robert McCauley was the son of Mary Elizabeth McConnell (formerly McCauley), 2 Hill street, Dunmurry, Belfast and the late James McCauley.
He was aged 20 when he died and is buried in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extn., Grave III.A.7.
Sgt. Thomas McCaw
British Army 15th Btn Highland Light Infantry
(d.3rd July 1916)
Thomas McCaw is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. Eugene McCcarthy
British Army 11th Btn. Hampshire Regiment
from:Kenmare, Co Kerry
Eugene McCarthy was one of three brothers who served in WW1. His brother William served in Army Service Corps with his brother Jack. All were born in Drumquinna, Kenmare, Co Kerry, but were working in Chelsea, London at the outbreak of the Great War. All three brothers survived but both Eugene and Jack died in 1922/1923 of war related illness.
L/Cpl. Robert McChesney
British Army Tyneside Scottish Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Seaham, County Durham
(d.4th July 1916)
My great uncle, Robert Mcchesney, from Seaham, County Durham, served with the 22nd/3rd Tyneside Scottish Northumberland Fusiliers during World War One. He was stationed in France from early 1916, this information obtained from the war diaries of the Tyneside Scottish units held at Alnwick Castle.
The 22nd Tyneside Scottish went into battle on the first day of the Somme at La Bosielle with the 21st forming the 102nd brigade right, and he was wounded on the site of the still existing Lochnagar Crater, which was created by a mine blown minutes prior to the commencement of the battle on the 1st of July 1916. It is here that the body of George Nugent also of the Tyneside Scottish was found in the 1990's.
Robert was wounded on the 1st of July 1916, and died from wounds on 4th of July 1916. He is buried at Heilly Gate Cemetery, France, which was a casualty clearing station like many of the cemeteries on the Somme. He was 24 years old and his younger sister, my grandmother, never got over the loss of her brother and she named her first born son Robert in honour of him.
L/Cpl. Robert McChesney
British Army 22nd (Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Seaham, County Durham
(d.4th July 1916)
My great uncle, Lance Corporal Robert McChesney, 22/1175 22nd Tyneside Scottish, Northumberland Fusiliers died on 4th of July 1916 of wounds sustained on the 1st of July, the 1st day of the battle of the Somme. He is buried at Heily Gate Cemetery, Picardy, France and is commemorated on the Roll of Honour at St Hilda's and St Helen's Church, Seaham County Durham. He is in the roll of honour under the misspelled name of Chesney in John Sheen's book, 'The Tyneside Scottish Northumberland Fusiliers'.
Pte. H. McClair
British Army 2nd Btn. Border Regiment
(d.1st Aug 1918)
Pte. H. McClair served with the Border Regiment, 2nd Battalion He was executed for desertion on 1st August1918 and isburied in the City of Paris Cemetery, Bagneux, France.
Sister. McClaren
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 32 Stationary Hospital
Pte John McClatchey
British Army 16th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Dromore
John McClatchey served with the 16th Battalion and signed on in Lurgan I think. He left the family home on Barban Hill Dromore after the war around 1920 and never returned and his whereabouts was never known.
In a book at home the following description is written in his own hand - but it is hard to decipher: "904 Pt John McClatchey 16 B g B No1 Comp 4 Platoon B E 7 feanel x"
CSM. Thomas McClay DCM MM.
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Omagh
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