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L/Cpl. Robert McDougall
British Army 8th (Post Office Rifles) Battalion London Regiment
(d.10th Sep 1917)
Sgt. William McDougall MM.
British Army 32nd Btn. Machine Gun Corps
from:Garline, Nethy Bridge, Inverness-shire
William McDougall was originally with the 6th Btn Seaforth Highlanders before transferring to the M.G.C. on the 12th of October 1916. He won the Military Medal in France but I can not find the citation. He was Gazetted March 17 1919 and also qualified for the British War Medal (which I have) and the Victory Medal. If anyone can add more information it would be appreciated.
Pte. James Walter Rodger McDowall
British Army 1st Btn. Gordon Highlanders
Researching my family tree I found James McDowall, his marriage etc and birth of his daughter then nothing. Further research has traced him to the 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders with a report of his death by asphyxiation on 7th May 1916 in France or Belgium.
Able.Sea. Thomas McDowall
Royal Navy HMS PC61
from:Portwilliam, Wigtownshire.
(d.4th May 1919)
Able Seaman Thomas McDowall was 23 years old when he was accidentally drowned in a boating accident. He was the son of Elizabeth McDowall, of Skate, Portwilliam, Wigtownshire. He is buried in the north part of the Aughaval (Holy Trinity) Church of Ireland Churchyard, C. Mayo.
Pte. David McDowell
British Army 27th (Tyneside Irish) Bn., Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Rainton Meadows Fence Houses, County Durham
(d.4th July 1916)
David McDowell was my Great Grandad, after his death his wife was unable to cope and had to have some of her children fostered out, so no-one seems to have much information about his service record or death.
Pte. Edward McDowell
British Army 13th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:Dublin
L/Cpl. Irwin McDowell
British Army 9th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Clogher Tenements, Co. Tyrone
(d.1st July 1916)
Irwin McDowell was a Lance Corporal in the 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He died aged 21yrs on the 1st July 1916. He lived at Clogher, Co. Tyrone. He was my great uncle and I just recently found a CWGC document but I have no other details.
Cpl. John McDowell
British Army 404th Highland Field Company Royal Engineers
from:46 MacKechnie St. Govan, Glasgow
(d.1st Aug1917)
My grand father, John McDowell served with the 404th Highland Field Company, I would like to get his service record and find out which battles he fought and the circumstances of his death.
Able Sea. Thomas McDowell
Royal Navy HMS PC61
from:Portwilliam, Wigtownshire
(d.4th May 1919)
Able Seaman McDowell is the son of Elizabeth McDowall of Skate, Portwilliam, Wigtownshire. He was 23 when he died and is buried in the Aughaval (Holy Trinity) Church of Ireland Graveyard, in Aughaval, Co. Mayo, Ireand.
Rflmn. W. McDowell
British Army 11th Btn., D Coy. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st July 1916)
Rifleman McDowell was killed in action on 1st July 1916. He is buried in Cerisy-Gailly French National Cemetery, Grave II.A.11.
He was the son of James and Ellen McDowell, 2 New Street, Lisburn, Co. Antrim.
Rfm William McDowell
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
(d.17th Aug 1917)
Dvr. Ronald John McEachen
British Army 156th Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire
(d.29th June 1916)
Ronald McEachen was killed on the Somme, two days before the "big push".
Pte. William McEachin
British Army 1st Garrison Btn. Royal Scots
(d.4th May 1914)
William McEachin was buried in the Famagusta Military Cemetery in Cyprus.
Capt. Dan McElduff MC.
British Army Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Pack Horse Inn, Burnopfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear,
My grandfather, Dan McElduff served in the Northumberland Fusiliers. He was awarded the MC in 1916 when serving on the Somme. I have added some pictures that I have. I am looking for any information that I can find regarding him and his war service history. It would also be nice to pass on his pictures to any of the family of his friends in his pictures. This might be a big and impossible task, but would be nice to do.
Pte. Patrick McElligott
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Tipperary Town
(d.2nd July 1916)
7525 Private Patrick McElligott served with the 2nd Btn Royal Irish Regiment and was from Tipperary Town. He died on 2nd July 1916 of wounds received while fighting in the Battle of the Somme and is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery, Merricourt-L'Abbe, France. Grave reference I.G.8.
Sgt. M. McElphone
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
M McElphone took part in trench raids on the night of the 25th-26th of June 1916
Capt. J. O. McElroy
British Army 14th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Gorteen
Captain McElroy was the son of Mrs McElroy of Guilmore, Gorteen.
He died on 4th March 1919 and is buried in south west part of the Killaraght Church of Ireland Churchyard, Kilfree, Co. Sligo, Ireland.
Pte. Ernest McElwee
British Army 2nd Btn. Hampshire Regiment
from:2 Bannfield Rd, Coleraine, Londonderry
Our father, Ernest McAlwee was born in 1899 and died in 1978. He lived at 2 Bannfield Road, Coleraine, Londonderry and enlisted in the Royal Irish Rifles on 30th of January 1917, at Ballymoney, Londonderry, N.Ireland. He was then transferred to the Hampshire Regiment, No. 28484, where he trained to be a Lewis Light Machine Gunner.
How he managed to survive through the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), the Battle of Cambrai and the Five Phases of the Battle of Lys is nothing short of a miracle. He was gassed in August 1918 and was discharged from Ewell Hospital, Surrey on 26th of May 1919. After serving two years and 117 days with the colours. For which he received a War Pension. Although I cannot find any record in the Burnt Records section, however, I have been told very few pension records survived the fire.
He is listed in the book "Coleraine Heroes" by Robert Thompson. Although the record shows him as being in the Munster Fusilliers. However, on his Enlistment papers he is recorded as joining the Royal Irish Rifles. He was awarded, the Victory Medal, British Medal, Silver War Badge No. 221426. Chevron 1 Blue (for serving 1 year overseas).
In loving memory from his three sons Ernest, James & John McElwee
Sgt. John Edward McEnerney
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Enniskillen
John McEnerney served with the 8th Inniskilling Fusiliers and the Labour Corps.
Pte. Henry Daniel McEntee
British Army 13th Btn. London Regiment
from:Carpenter's Cottage, Kensington Palace, London
(d.9th May 1915)
Henry McEntee died in the Battle of Aubers Ridge aged 23. He was the son of Daniel McEntee, carpenter to the Royal Family, and was born and lived in Carpenter's Cottage, Kensington Palace, London, of Irish and German parents. His two other brothers fighting in WWI survived.
Pte. Bernard McEvoy
British Army 15th (The King's) Hussars
(d.23rd October 1918)
Private McEvoy was 40 when he died and is buried near the South-West corner of the Knockaroe Catholic Churchyard, Aghaboe, Co. Leix, Ireland.
Pte. Hugh Mcevoy
9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Kilcoo, County Down
(d.16th August 1917)
Pte. John Patrick McEvoy
British Army 11th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Cardiff
My grandfather John McEvoy, was wounded when he was buried in a shellhole in Zonnebeke on 10th April 1918, 19 days after my mother's birth. He required at least two operations and over a year of hospital treatment but luckily survived. My mother was always told that he was never the same after the war, hardly surprising really. He then died in his early 40's so could probably be considered a casualty of war. My mother talked of him with great affection over 70 years after his death; he was a gentle, kind man and she often helped him in his work as a tailor.
Today my husband and I visited Polygon Wood Cemetery and found the graves of a few men from his battalion who died in the days immediately after he was wounded. I found it very moving to think that they may have known my grandfather. However awful his experience and however much it contributed to his early death, he surely had a better deal than those poor lads.
L/Cpl. John Stanislaus McEvoy
British Army 21st Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
(d.22nd June 1917)
Joseph McEvoy
from:Jarrow
Joseph McEvoy is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow.
Pte. Robert McEvoy McEvoy
British Army East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Belfast, Ireland
Robert McEvoy is my great-grandfather. He passed away in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1957.
Pte. Robert Wright McEvoy
British Army Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
Robert McEvoy was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1890 and died in Hamilton Ontario, Canada in 1957.
Pte. William John McEvoy
British Army 8th Btn. Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Belfast
(d.16th August 1917)
Pte. Alexander Norman McEwan
British Army 9th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Belfast, N.Ireland
Alexander McEwan served with the Seaforth Highlanders I've been trying to locate my father's service record for some time without success. However, I found his Medal Roll Index Card. He was 16 years old in 1915 when he enlisted. My older sister thought he was in the 9th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. However, he played football in the war and his football medal is engraved "Ripon Garrison Association Cup Competition".
He also had a "On War Service Badge" dated 1915 which was usually given to a civilian, unless it wasn't his. I have checked the roll call of names of ALL Seaforth Highlander Battalions but his name is not there. The number on the "On War Service Badge" is 92635. His father was Scottish - hence his enlistment in a Scottish Regiment.
Pte. James McEwan MM.
British Army 2nd Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
from:Newmains, Lanarkshire
James McEwan served with distinction in the Great War spending four years in the trenches with 2nd Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. He was part of the 33rd Division and won the Military Medal for bravery in the field in the Ypres Salient. He was also presented with a certificate of distinction by the commanding officer of the 33rd Division. James took part in the Battle of Arras, The Battle of the Somme and the Third Battle of Ypres (Easschendaele). He was seriously wounded in 1917 probably during the last named battle.
During the Second World War James served in the Home Guard where his valuable experience was used training is local Home Guard unit in which he served as a Sergeant until he was accidentally wounded while on the rifle range. He died from gas gangrene in a Military Hospital in Edinburgh on 23rd of January 1943 and was buried with military honours at Cambusnethan Cemetery. James was the son of John and Janet McEwan of 89 Meadowbum Road, Wishaw, Husband of Elizabeth Miller McEwan of 15 Crindledyke Crescent, Newmains.
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