April 1915
A group of men who enlisted to the 1st Dublins in Worley London amongst those were
10185 Tidiman, William Private Died 25/4/15
10186 Rawlinson, Philip Bandsman Died 26/4/15
10187 Remon, J Private Died 25/4/15
10188 Stevens, WilliamLance Corporal Died 30/4/15
this suggests they were in the same company and were 1st day landers on V beach.
8960 Private Thomas CULLEN 1st Battalion Enlisted Naas. Resided Dun Laoghaire. Born Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Killed in action 25th April 1915. Gallipoli
11078 Private John DOWLING 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 25th April 1915 Gallipoli
10422 Sergeant Joseph DOWLING 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 25th April 1915. Gallipoli
6870 Private John Lee. 1st Battalion. he was born Manchester, enlisted Naas and resided Dublin, theatre of war was Gallipoli. fell in action on 28th April 1915 at Gallipoli
11076 Private William Conroy 1st Battalion died 29/04/1915 Helles Memorial Gallipoli
10912, Private William SAUNDERS 1st Battalion son of the late Richard Saunders; b. Dublin; educ. .St. John's School tlu'ie . Enlisted 5 Am:. 1910 ; joined the 2nd Battn. at Aldershot, and was drafted to the l«t Battn. in India : returned to England with his regt.. arriving 23 Dec. 1914 ; went to the Dardanelles 14 May following ; and was killed in action on V Beach there. Died 26/04/1915 Gallipoli
11198 Private Michael BYRNE 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Died 25th April 1915. Gallipoli
9429 Private Patrick BYRNE 1st Battalion Born Dublin, Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 26th April 1915. Gallipoli
10507 Private Joseph BAILEY 1st Battalion. Born Dublin Son of Thomas and Mary Bailey, of 19, Coleraine St., Dublin. Enlisted Dublin Killed in action 25th April 1915 Helles Memorial. Age 23 Gallipoli
10130 Private Albert BARRY 1st Battalion Born Dublin Enlisted Dublin Killed in action 30th April 1915 Gallipoli
10901 Private Patrick BOOTH 1st Battalion Born Dublin Resided Dublin Enlisted Naas Died of wounds 28th April 1915 Gallipoli
10074 Private John BRANNIGAN. 1st Battalion Born Skerries, Co. Dublin. Resided Lusk, Co. Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 30th April 1915 Gallipoli
11414 Private Edward BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Edward and Jane Byrne, of 72, Capel St., Dublin.Killed in action 26th April 1915. Gallipoli. Age 19. V Beach Cemetery Gallipoli.
10136 Private Michael BUTLER. Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. 1st Battalion. Killed in action 25th April 1915. Gallipoli
10286 Corporal John BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 26th April 1915. Gallipoli
10761 Private Patrick CALLAGHAN. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of John and Elizabeth Callaghan, of 895, Corporation Buildings, Dublin. Killed in action 25th April 1915. Gallipoli. Age 25. V Beach Cemetery .Gallipoli
11647 Private William CAMPBELL 1st Battalion Born Dublin . Resided Dublin Killed in action 30th April 1915. Gallipoli
9535 Private Michael CARAHER 1st Battalion Born Dublin Enlisted Dublin Son of Mrs. Mary Caraher, of 40, Cuffe St., Dublin. Killed in action 26th April 1915. Age 26. V Beach Cemetery - Gallipoli.
11366 Private Patrick COLEMAN 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 26th April 1915. Gallipoli
10810 Corporal Patrick COLLINS 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 30th April 1915. Gallipoli
11362 Private John CONDRON. 1st Battalion Born Rush, Co. Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Mrs. Mary Condron, of Old Rd., Rush, Co. Dublin. Killed in action 26th April 1915. . Age 21. V Beach Cemetery Gallipoli
9784 Private Christopher CUMMINS 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Brother of Mr. J. Cummins, of 5, St. Joseph's Place, Gratton Crescent, Inchicore, Dublin. Killed in action 25th April 1915. Age 27. Helles Memorial Gallipoli
9922 Private Phelim CURRAN 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 30th April 1915. Gallipoli
11079 Private Francis DEEGAN 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Son of Mary Deegan, of 96, Lower Dorset St., Dublin, and the late Frank Deegan. Killed in action 30th April 1915. Age 24. V Beach Cemetery Gallipoli
11070 Private Peter DEMPSEY 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 25th April 1915. Gallipoli
10010 Private Patrick DILLON 1st Battalion Born Dublin Enlisted Dublin. Son of Richard and Agnes Teresa Dillon, of 9, Stafford St., Dublin. Killed in action 30th April 1915. Age 24. V Beach Cemetery Gallipoli
May 1915
11096 Private Edward BYRNE.1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin.Died of wounds 4th May 1915. Gallipoli
9866 Private Thomas BYRNE 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Resided Dublin. Enlisted Naas. Killed in action 23rd May 1915 Gallipoli
10728 Private John CARROLL 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Thomas and Bridget Carroll, of 13, Kennedy's Villas, James's St., Dublin. Killed in action 9th May 1915. Gallipoli. Age 22. Helles Memorial Gallipoli
10849 Private Peter Paul CONDON. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Resided Dublin. Enlisted Liverpool. Killed in action 2nd May 1915. Gallipoli
10111 Private James COOPER 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin Born Dublin. Killed in action 9th May 1915. Gallipoli
11241 Private Patrick TOOLE 1st Battalion "A" Coy. Son of Patrick and Bridget Toole, of Kilcullen Co. Kildare Died age 25 on 11/05/1915. Helles Memorial. He was also the brother of Ray Donoghue's grandfather Michael. Ray is best known to new Kilcullen residents as the genial occasional barman in Fallon's Cafe Bar. But to older Kilcullenites he is somebody we grew up with and also remember well his contribution to Kilcullen Drama Group in former years. Private Toole -- Ray reckons the lack of the 'O' prefix is a mispelling, as his family recollections are all of the O'Toole name -- didn't make it too far into the campaign that began on 26 April 1915. His death is just one of 21,000 commemorated on the obelisk. Ray himself has no recollection of Patrick, but does of his grandfather Michael, also a soldier in the Irish Fusiliers. "He was an assistant to a Chaplain in the war, and was a POW in Germany. He and Patrick were born in Yellow Bog and would have grown up there, and they went to school in Halverstown.
June 1915
10641 Private Thomas Jennings,, 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers who was MID in the London Gazette on 5/5/16 and subsequently awarded the D.C.M for gallantry (LG 16/5/16). Citation reads: For conspicuous gallantry in going forward and cutting wire which was holding up the advance. A short but to the point citation, but from the LG dates and with little more information it is proving difficult pinning down the date of the action. Jennings was later killed during the opening day of the Third Battle of Krithia 4th June 1915 so it is possible this was a posthumous award. The RDF were in action late that day when they tried to attack along Gully Ravine, but made little progress, faltering under the Turkish fire and defences. These same defences and wire entanglements halted the Sikh attack earlier that day
8767 Private John BRADY 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 29th June 1915. Gallipoli
8289 Private Patrick BRADY. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 29th June 1915. Gallipoli
9310 Private Thomas BRIEN. Born Finglas, Co. Dublin. Resided Finglas. Enlisted Dublin. 1st Battalion. Killed in action 15th June 1915. Gallipoli
6874 Lance Sergeant Thomas BURKE. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Resided Dublin. Enlisted Maryborough. Son of Mrs. Margaret Burke, of 14, Hanover St., Dublin.Killed in action 29th June 1915 . Age 26. Helles Memorial - Gallipoli
14626 Private John BUTLER. Born Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Resided Dun Laoghaire. Enlisted Dublin. 1st Battalion. Killed in action 29th June 1915. Gallipoli
11099 Private Daniel BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Mary Byrne, of 6, Vances Buildings, Bishop St., Dublin.Killed in action 15th June 1915. Gallipo. Age 22. Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery - Gallipoli.
5506 Private John BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 29th June 1915. Gallipoli
18211 Private Joseph BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Dalkey, Co. Dublin. Enlisted Greenock. Killed in action 29th June 1915. Gallipoli
10694 Private Michael CARTY 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Naas. Died of wounds 30th June 1915.Gallipoli
8876 Private Bernard CARROLL 1st Battalion . Born Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Killed in action 29th June 1915. Gallipoli
9249 Private John CONDRON 1st Battalion Born Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Resided Tallaght, Co. Dublin. Son of John and Mary Condron, of Oldcourt, Tallaght, Dublin. Killed in action 15th June 1915. Age 16. Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery Gallipoli
5631 Corporal James CONNELL. 1st Battalion. Enlisted Dublin. Born Chapelizod, Dublin. Killed in action 4th June 1915. Gallipoli
8517 Private James CONNOR 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Oldbawn, Co. Dublin. Killed in action 29th June 1915. Gallipoli
10660 Private Patrick CULLEN 1st Battalion Enlisted Naas Resided Dublin. Born Drumcondra, Dublin. Son of Murtagh Cullen, of 1, Millbourne Cottages, Millbourne Avenue, Drumcondra, Co. Dublin. Killed in action 29th June 1915. Age 27. Helles Memorial Gallipoli
17764 Private Bernard DALY 1st Battalion Resided Cloghran, Co. Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Mrs. Margaret Daly, of Coultry, Cloghran, Co. Dublin. Killed in action 29th June 1915. Age 25 Helles Memorial .Gallipoli.
10137 Private Anthony DEVITT 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin Resided Dalkey. Born Dalkey, Co. Dublin. Son of Peter Devitt, of 27, Convent Rd., Dalkey, Co. Dublin. Age 28. Killed in action 29th June 1915. Helles Memorial Gallipoli
18108, Private, F,GALLAGHER, 1st Battalion. Died 14 June 1915.
17432 Private J E BAMBER, 1st Battalion. Three: 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals. Born 16/6/1890, James Edward Bamber enlisted into the 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers prior to the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. He first saw active service during WW1 in the Balkans, entering that theatre of operations on 13/5/1915. Since Bamber did not take part in the initial landing on V Beach he would undoubtedly been among what the battalion history, Neil's Bluecaps, describes as the "scanty reinforcements" that reached the 1st Dublins at Helles, a total reinforcement of just 54 officers and men. After receiving these meagre reinforcements, the 1st Dublins was reconstituted as a separate unit, on 19/5/1915, just six days after Private Bamber landed at Gallipoli. Private Bamber was killed in action just six weeks later, on 29/6/1915, the second day of the Battle of Gully Ravine (the action at Gully Ravine commencing on 28/6/1915 and ending on 2/7/1915). During the battle of Gully Ravine, General Hunter-Weston attempted to advance north along the western Gallipoli coastline, and thereby shorten the line of the salient at the centre of his front line. Though the initial attack took all its objectives on 28/6/1915, on the two following nights the Turks launched concerted counter-attacks during which the 1st Dublins suffered enormous casualties, the battalion losing on 28th - 29th June 236 officers and men killed, wounded and missing. (Army Form B104/82) dated 21/7/1915 notifying Private Bamber's family that he had been "killed in action"; a letter from the War Office (Effects Form no. 45, W.G.), dated 2/8/1919, confirming that Private Bamber's War Gratuity of £3 would be paid out to his father, Mr T. Bamber; the letter of transmission that accompanied Bamber's 1914-15 Star dated 4/10/1921, signed by Major J.H. Wood of the Infantry Records Department, Dublin; a postcard postmarked 18/8/1922, addressed to Mr J. Bamber, requesting that he confirm the correct address to which Private Bamber's BWM and Victory Medal were to be dispatched; the letter of transmission that accompanied Private Bamber's BWM and Victory Medals, dated 29/8/1922, signed by Colonel R.G. Hely-Hutchinson; a letter from the Imperial War Graves Commission, dated 25/1/1927, acknowledging receipt of 3 shillings in payment for a copy of the "Register of the Cape Helles Memorial" part 2. Group also accompanied by a photograph of the section of the Cape Helles Memorial on which Private Bamber's name is engraved, along with an original copy of Private Bamber's birth certificate. The Colonel R.G. Hely-Hutchinson who signed the transmission letter of August 1922 would be Colonel Richard George Hely-Hutchinson, Royal Fusiliers, son of John Hely-Hutchinson of Seafield and Lissenhall, Co. Dublin (details of this family from Burke's Irish Landed Gentry also accompany group). Colonel Hely-Hutchinson saw active service during WW1, DSO (London Gazette 22/6/1915), 1914 Star trio.
July 1915
8614 Private Joseph BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Tallaght, Co. Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Died of wounds 4th July 1915. Gallipoli
17614 Pte Thomas Shannon 1st battalion R.D.F., killed at Gallipoli on the 12/7/1915.
7529 Lance Corporal Michael BOYNE 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Died of wounds 12th July 1915 Gallipoli
17565 Private Joseph CONWAY 1st Battalion Enlisted London. Resided Dublin. Born Cork. Son of Mary Conway, of 18, Emerald St., North Wall, Dublin. Died of wounds 1st July 1915. Age 24. Helles Memorial. Gallipoli.
10256 Sergeant Christopher COONEY. 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 5th July 1915. . Awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal .Gallipoli
4788 Private James CORRIGAN 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 12th July 1915. Gallipoli
Aug 1915
19580 Private John MATES of 1st Battalion who was killed on Aug. 07 1915 and remembered at Helles Memorial, (his brother Patrick was killed on July 15 1916, their parents were from Co. Wicklow)
10982 Lance Corporal Philip BANNON 1st Battalion Born Clontarf, Dublin Son of Thomas Bannon, of 9, Parnell St., Dublin Enlisted Killed in action 7th August 1915 Gallipoli Age 22 Helles Memorial - Gallipoli.
10165 Private John BARRETT 1st Battalion Born Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Resided Dun Laoghaire Enlisted Dublin Died of wounds 6th August 1915 Gallipoli
19152 Private William BURY. Born Dublin. Resided Dublin. Enlisted Cardiff. 1st Battalion. Killed in action 21st August 1915. Gallipoli
8344 Sergeant James CONNOR 1st Battalion. Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of the late Thomas and Margaret Connor; husband of Margaret Connor, of 9, School St., Dublin. Killed in action 28th August 1915. Age 28. Green Hill Cemetery - Turkey. Gallipoli.
11092 Lance Corporal John CORR. 1st Battalion Enlisted Naas. Resided Dublin. Born Dublin. Died of wounds 27th August 1915. Gallipoli
8206 Private William DOLAN 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Catherine Dolan, of 20, Golden Lane, Dublin, and the late John Dolan. Killed in action 7th August 1915. Age 23 Helles Memorial Gallipoli
22109 Private John DERHAM 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Resided Skerries. Born Skerries, Co. Dublin. Formerly 3043, Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action 7th August 1915. Gallipoli
8803 Private Thomas CURTIS 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Son of Thomas and Catherine Curtis, of 19, Lower Dominick St., Dublin. Killed in action 28th August 1915. Age 20. Green Hill Cemetery Gallipoli
9903 Corporal Christopher CULLEN. 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 22nd August 1915. Gallipoli
10796 Lance Sergean, William ELLOWAY,1st Battalion died 7th August 1915, aged 24 years. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Elloway, of 18 Hurley Road, Lower Kennington Lane, Lambeth, London Gallipoli
11298 AHERN, Drummer Rodney 1st Battalion Born High Leas, Portsmouth. Residence Curragh. Enlisted Kildare. in a letter to his mother from a convalescent hospital, on 25th June, Drummer Rodney Ahearn of the R.D.F., a native of Naas, writes that although he was wounded in the foot he was getting on very well, he says:-
“Dear Mother - Just a few lines to let you know that l am going on well and that I got a slight wound in the foot on the 18th inst. But it is getting on splendidly and I am now at Port Said Convalescent. So I think I have escaped very lucky, as I think I am one of the last of the old 1st battalion to leave the trenches. It is terrible the cutting up that battalion has got - in fact, the whole division. Each time there has been anything on the mat we have been there, so I think it is very near time that they gave us a rest, but there is no such thing. There is no rest or playing football, as there is on the other side. It is a break to get away for a few days after being two months on the go day and night. I have been expecting one every day as I should like to know if my father is on his way out, as I have not hear of him. I suppose “Titch” is getting on tiptop. Is he gone to Belfast yet? I wrote him a postcard to the Curragh, but I suppose it will be forwarded to him, Your loving son, Rodney” Kildare Observer, 4 September,1915
In a War Office communication dated 20th July, Mrs. Ahearn received a document from the Infantry Record Office, Island Bridge, to the effect that Drummer Rodney Abeam was wounded in action and admitted to the Government Hospital at Port. This confirmed the above letter. However, Rodney quickly recovered from his wounds and was soon again with his regiment. In September, of the same year, he was very badly wounded in action at the Dardanelles. A further communication was received; a notification of death “from wounds”. Died of wounds 8 Aug 1915. At the time the 20 year old's father, Private Richard Ahearn, was fighting in the trenches, and was later killed in the war.
The death of Drummer Rodney Ahearn of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, from wounds received at the Dardanelles, has been heard with much regret in Newbridge and Naas districts. Drummer Ahearn was a native of Naas, where his Father, Private Richard Ahearn, was a officers' servant in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers' barracks for many years. He had just arrived at the age of 20 years, and having been wounded in action, he was removed to Port Said hospital on the 24th June, but, recovering quickly, he rejoined his regiment, and getting back to the firing line he was killed in action at the Dardanelles. Mr. Richard Ahearn, father of the deceased was a popular member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who fought right through the Boer War, and who for some years past was the staff of the Newbridge Post Office. When the present war started Mr. Ahearn immediately volunteered for active service, and was soon at the front with his old corps, the lst Dublins. He was very anxious to meet his son, who was in the fighting line, and although both were in Alexandria for some hours at the same time, in their different companies, they did not meet, neither did they while in fighting line afterwards. In a letter to his mother from the convalescent hospital, Port Said, on the 25th June, Drummer Ahearn said he had been wounded in the foot on the 18th June, but was going on splendidly,
Efforts To Meet His Father At The Front. In a further letter to his mother from the Dardanelles he says :—I am very sorry that I missed my father at Alexandria Docks on the night that I left Alexandria to rejoin my unit. My father went up to the Divisional Base to see me. I did not know that the regiment (Dublins) was there at the time, or I should have gone down that morning and seen him. I believe they are here now, but have not heard from him or seen him. I can't go myself and inquire for him at present, as we are in the trenches, but I would wish to see him, and I hope it will be soon. Most probably he shall come up to me some day, as we can't leave the trenches. I wish we were relieved, and we would not be long finding him. No matter, I hope we will have some luck, and meet soon.
In a letter dated 4th August he says :—I have not seen my father since he came to the front. He and they are supposed to be here nearly two weeks, but they might have gone to a different place altogether, some seven miles from where we are. I have sent a couple of postcards to my father, and let us hope he is safe; but no one is safe, no matter where you go.
Drummer Ahern was killed before he succeeded in meeting with his father.— The Irish Times 30 August 1915
Sep 1915
Oct 1915
8905 Private James CASSIDY. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 3rd October 1915 Gallipoli
Nov 1915
8285 Private William COMISKEY, 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 12th November 1915. Gallipoli
17898 Private James COONEY. 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin Born Dublin. Son of Mrs. Catherine Cooney, of 6, Lower Rutland St. Dublin. Killed in action 4th November 1915. Age 21. Azmak Cemetery, Suvla Gallipoli
8347 Private John CRONIN 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Died of wounds 6th November 1915. Gallipoli
7734 Private Arthur Quinlan, 1st Battalion died 27/11/1915 Helles Memorial Gallipoli
Dec 1915
17738 Private James BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Templeogue, Dublin. Enlisted Coatbridge Killed in action 22nd December 1915. Gallipoli
5121 Sergeant William CLARKE 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Died of wounds 6th December 1915. Gallipoli
Jan 1916
8313 Private John CARROLL 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Died of wounds 18th January 1916. Gallipoli
8567 Private Patrick DONEGAN 1st Battalion Resided Belfast. Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 1st January 1916. Gallipoli
COFFREY, Private Bernard., 1st Battalion. Wounded 1915. Born Donadea. Gallipoli
DORAN, Private Thomas. 1st Battalion.. Wounded 1915. Born Naas. Gallipoli
Pte. Tom ERRITY: One of the Dublin Fusiliers killed was Pte. Thomas Errity, aged seventeen from Newtownmountkennedy. He and his family of nine lived on a small farm. He joined up in 1913. The Roman Catholic Chaplain to the Dublin Fusiliers, Fr. Flynn, was killed giving absolution to a dying fusilier . Tom Errity is buried in a cemetery on the beach in Gallipoli. It was once called the ‘Dublins ‘ Cemetery’.
Joseph Berrils - youngest RDF casualty: “The youngest Dublin Fusilier to die in the entire war was a young fellow called Joseph Berrils from Drogheda, Co. Louth. He was only fifteen years of age when he died at Gallipoli. He should never have been there, a mere child.
The three Donovan brothers from the parish of St.Anne’s in Cork lie together in Gallipoli. So too do the two Mallaghan brothers from Newry
1916
21515 Private J GALLAGHER, 1st Battalion Died 1 July 1916.
7989 Private Michael BOYLAN. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Philip and Kate Boylan, of 6, Hutton's Place, Summerhill, Dublin. Died of wounds 6th July 1916. Age 22. Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1
21213 Private Christopher BRENNAN. Born Dublin. Resided Dublin. Enlisted Glasgow. 1st Battalion. Killed in action 1st July 1916
22654 Private Patrick BRENNAN. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 9th September 1916
9050 Company Sergeant Major Thomas BRENNAN. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Resided Dublin. Enlisted Naas.Killed in action 22nd July 1916
8281 Corporal William BRYSON. Born Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. 1st Battalion. Killed in action 1st July 1916
9833 Private Cyril BURNE. Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. 1st Battalion. Killed in action 1st July 1916
8608 Private James BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Donnybrook, Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Christopher and Sarah Byrne. Killed in action 28th June 1916. Age 23. Auchonvillers Military Cemetery
15149 Sergeant Joseph BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 1st July 1916
6137 Private Peter DOLAN 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin Born Dublin. Killed in action 1st July 1916.
20507 Private Albert DORAN 1st Battalion Born Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Enlisted Dun Laoghaire. Died of wounds 22nd October 1916
22400 Private John McMULLEN, 1st Battalion was KIA at the Somme on 1st July 1916. He had served with the 29th Division in Turkey, his unit taking part in the murderous Cape Helles landing of 25th April 1915. The unit had returned from Gallipoli for the Somme batttle. He was born in Dunloy, lived at Swatragh and enlisted in Coatbridge, Scotland. He is named on the Thiepval Memorial.
8433 Lance Corporal Patrick COULTER 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin Born Dublin. Son of Patrick and Margaret Coulter (nee Boylan). of 29, Black Pitts, Dublin. Killed in action 27th October 1916. Age 21. Thiepval Memorial
7812 Private John CUMMINS . 1st Battalion. Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 1st July 1916.
11279 Private Thomas DILLON 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Son of Mrs. Agnes Dillon, of 9, Stafford St., Dublin. Died of wounds 20th December 1916. Age 24. Grangegorman Military Cemetery
1917
28329 Private John BATES 1st Battalion Born Dublin Enlisted Dublin Killed in action 4th October 1917
43096 Private Thomas BOLAND 1st Battalion Native of Ballsbridge, Dublin. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Boland, of Eyre St., Newbridge, Co. Kildare. Resided Dublin. Enlisted Maryborough. Formerly 9835, Royal Irish Regiment. Died of wounds 1st March 1917. Age 20. Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte - Somme -SDGW gives birthplace as Moate, Westmeath
8466 Private Thomas BOYNE. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Mary Anne Boyne, of 132, Townsend St., Dublin, and the late Patrick Boyne. Killed in action 1st March 1917 Age 20. Thiepval Memorial
17861 Private Patrick BRADY 1st Battalion Born Dundrum, Co. Dublin, Resided Dundrum. Enlisted Dublin. Son of the late Michael and Elizabeth Brady, of Windy Arbour, Dundrum, Co. Dublin. Died 19th April 1917. Arras Memorial
25034 Lance Corporal Daniel BRADY. 1st Battalion Resided Rathcoole, Co. Dublin. Son of Mary Brady, of The Green, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin. Enlisted Dublin.Killed in action 18th August 1917. Age 23. Tyne Cot Memorial
40083 Private William Humphreys 1st Battalion Son of John and Ann Humphreys, of 123, North Rd., Porth (Rhondda), Glam. died 24/4/1917. age 23 Arras Memorial.
40918 Private J SULLIVAN 1st Battalion. age 21. 05/10/1917. Brother of J. O. Sullivan, Sub-Condr Indian Army Ordnance Corps, The Arsenal, Quetta, India. Poelcapelle British Cemetery
40272 Private Parker, Patrick. 1st Battalion; died of wounds, France, August 10th, 1917; born Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. Enlisted originally with Munsters
40964 Lance Corporal Albert CARNELL 1st Battalion.from the Walsall RoH is , buried in Unicorn Cemetery, died 26/12/1917
7275 DOYLE, Private, P, . 1st Battalion died 4th October 1917.
26590 Private J GALLAGHER, 1st Battalion Died 14 July 1917. Brother of Eliza Gallagher.
20432 Sergeant Thomas BRENNOCK. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Son of Michael and Mary Brennock, of Dublin. His brothers William and Patrick also fell. Enlisted Dublin.Formerly 50604, Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 28th February 1917. Age 28. Thiepval Memorial
22756 Acting Corporal Robert BRESLIN. Enlisted Dublin. Born Sandymount, Co. Dublin. 1st Battalion Killed in action 18th August 1917
28109 Private Christopher BYRNE.1st Battalion Born Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Resided Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Enlisted Lanelly. Son of John and Elizabeth Byrne, of 2, Whelan's Terrace, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.Killed in action 24th April 1917. Age 22. Arras Memorial - Pas De Calais
9818 Sergeant George BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 5th October 1917.
27534 Private James BYRNE. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 15th April 1917.
9070 Private Thomas BYRNE 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 1st March 1917
9741 Private Francis CAMPBELL 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Elizabeth Campbell, of 12, Eugene St., Cork St., Dublin, and the late James Campbell. Killed in action 28th February 1917. Age 27. Thiepval Memorial
28408 Private John William COSTELLO 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 17th August 1917. Tyne Cot Memorial
20216 Private Edward COTTON 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Resided Armagh. Born Lusk, Co. Dublin. Died of wounds 26th April 1917.
8886 Private Peter CRAIG. 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin Born Palmerstown, Co. Dublin. Killed in action 5th October 1917
1918
22371 Private John DIXON 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 21st March 1918.
25892 Private Thomas Henry DIXON 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Son of David and Elizabeth Dixon, of 45, De Courcy Square, Glasneven, Dublin. Died 6th May 1918. Age 20. Nieppe-Bois (Rue-Du-Bois) British Cemetery
5678 Private Patrick CROMIEN. 1st Battalion. Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Son of Philip and Anne Cromien, of 13, Fingal Place, Prussia St., Dublin. Died of wounds 23rd October 1918. Age 20. Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery - Ieper
15794 Lance Sergeant William CROWLEY 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Rathmines, Dublin. Son of Mrs. Rosanna Crowley; husband of Mary Crowley, of 57, Lower Dominick St., Dublin. Killed in action 29th March 1918. Age 30. Awarded Military Medal. Pozieres Memorial
6284 Private William CUNNINGHAM 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Son of Patrick and Mary Anne Cunningham, of 9, Northcote Avenue, Kingstown, Co. Dublin. Killed in action 29th September 1918. Age 33. Hooge Crater Cemetery
30795 Private William DELANEY 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Richard and Kate Delaney, of 40, Usher's Quay, Dublin. Died of wounds 28th March 1918. Age 18. Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension
6887 Private Thomas DONOHOE 1st Battalion Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Son of Denis and Hannah Donohoe, of 75, Dominick St., Dublin. Died of wounds 24th June 1918. Brookwood Military Cemetery - Surrey
40110 Private Thomas BROWN. Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. 1st Battalion. Killed in action 4th September 1918
22140 Private Patrick BYRNE 1st Battalion Born Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 10th September 1918
8767 Private Patrick BYRNE 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 23rd March 1918
29601 Private Michael CAHILL 1st Battalion Born Rathgar, Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Died of wounds 1st October 1918
30807 Private Thomas CALLAGHAN. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of Owen and Esther Callaghan, of Dublin. Killed in action 7th October 1918. Age 35. Dadizeele New British Cemetery
10171 Lance Corporal Stephen CAMPBELL 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Killed in action 29th March 1918
29864 Private James Alfred CARSON 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of John and Annie Carson, of 41, Upper Grand Canal St., Dublin. Killed in action 29th March 1918. Age 19. Pozieres Memorial
20014 Lance Corporal Thomas CHRISTIAN 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Son of James and Sarah Christian, of 1, Elm Grove Cottages, Blackhorse Rd., Phoenix Park, Dublin. Died of wounds 18th September 1918. Age 23. Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille
10284 Acting Corporal John COLLINS. 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Resided Dublin. Enlisted Naas. Son of John and Frances Collins, of Dublin. Killed in action 27th April 1918. Age 26. Morbecque British Cemetery
28250 Private William COLLINS. 1st Battalion Enlisted Bray. Born Little Bray, Co. Dublin. Died of wounds 29th September 1918.
20012 Acting Sergeant Laurence CONNELL. 1st Battalion. Enlisted Dublin. Born Dublin. Killed in action 5th October 1918
6080 Private James CONNOLLY 1st Battalion Born Dublin, Enlisted Dublin. Son of Elizabeth Connolly, of 4, Coombe, Dublin. Died of wounds 9th June 1918. Age 31. Ebblinghem Military Cemetery
10872 Sergeant William CONNOLLY 1st Battalion Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. Died of wounds 3rd September 1918
14523 Lance CorporalJohn Sullivan 1st Battalion W Company. Son of Bridget Sullivan, of Borris, Co. Carlow, and the late Michael Sullivan. age 22. died 03/06/1918. Ploegsteert Memorial
29581Private William Waring COX 1st Battalion, A Company.Son of John and Ellen Edith Cox, of Limerick. Born in Limerick and enlisted there. died 21/3/1918 age 19. Epehy Wood Farm cemetery
15035 Cpl Herbert Kington 1st Battalion killed in action 3 Jun 1918 aged 21
10577 Private A J Lock, 1st Battalion London Gazette 17 June 1919, I think for MM
28272 Private John McINERNEY 1st Battalion died age 21 on 29 March 1918 Son of James McInerney. POZIERES MEMORIAL. According to the War Diary - on 29 March 1918 the 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers had some problems in that 130 men refused to carry wire up to the line. It says it is not known what happened to these men. This man died on that day
40746 Robert McDermott,1st Battalion; sw to the neck at Ledegem in October 1918, also served in Royal Irish Regt
40199 Private William Dawson killed on 27th Septemebr 1918. And also served in Lincolnshire Regiment 203169 Private Royal and Royal Irish Regiment 18368 Private
31507 DOYLE, Private Aubret George, 1st Battalion . Killed in action 9th October 1918. Age 19. Son of Peter and Bridget Doyle, of 24 Milbrook St., Landore, Swansea
4998 Lance Serjeant, Phillip DOYLE, MM. 1st Battalion died 4th September 1918. Pond Farm Cemetery
19877 DOYLE, Corporal EDWARD,. "X" Coy. 1st Battalion. died 28th September 1918. Age 21. Son of Michael and Katie DOYLE, of 31 Regent St., Bagenalstown. Co. Carlow.
29389 DOYLE, Private J,. 1st Battalion, Died 29th March 1918.
5087 Private Michael DUNNE, 1st Battalion Reported wounded in 1914, later killed in action, France, March 29, 1918. Born Athy, Co. Kildare.
6087 Private Charles BRENNAN. Born Dublin. Enlisted Dublin. 1st Battalion. Died of wounds 13th May 1918
11481 Gleeson R, Sergeant 1st Battalion. Military Medal died 4/9/1918 TROIS ARBRES CEMETERY, STEENWERCK
5654 H. A. Pollard. Royal Dublin Fusiliers.1st Battalion. died 09/12/1918 BERLIN SOUTH-WESTERN CEMETERY
40976 James Freer 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers Killed in Action 29/9/1918 )enlisted in Leicester, and formerly in Leicester Rgt)
Sgt Bob Downie, VC: “Sgt. Bob Downie created a bit of regimental history with the Dublin Fusiliers, he won a Victoria Cross during the later campaigns in the Battle of the Somme. He took out a German machine gun post killing some and taking prisoners. As he ran at the guns he screamed in his broad Glaswegian accent, ‘Come on the Dubs.’ Downie was a Scot from Springburn in Glasgow. In fact one could call him an Irish Scot – his father came from Donegal to pick potatoes at the turn of the century. He was a very quiet man. When he came home to Glasgow to receive his VC from the King, he got a hero’s welcome. He was a member of the United Irishmen and they came out and presented him with a silver coin. He was an ardent Glasgow Celtic supporter. At the end of the war he was outside Celtic Park (Parkhead) queuing in the Veterans and Unemployed queue. The manager of Celtic recognised Downie in the queue and he asked him. ‘What are you doing? You won the Victoria Cross, why are you here?’ Downie replied. ‘Well, I am an unemployed veteran’. So the Celtic manager gave him a job as a grounds man in Celtic Park. He worked at Parkhead for the rest of his life. Bob Downie VC died in 1968. He lived long enough to see his beloved Celtic win the European Cup in 1967.
Peter Byrne: “Peter Byrne joined up in 1912. He was shot in the lungs and was taken back to Ireland and spent the rest of the war in Leopardstown Park Hospital….. In May 1941, the Germans bombed North Strand in Dublin. Peter Byrne had a job with the Irish Independent and he was coming home the night the Germans bombed the North Strand and he had just gone over Annesley Bridge and the bomb went off. He looked back and he said. ‘Ye bastards, you missed me in the first one, you missed me in the second one and you’ll never get me now.’ Peter Byrne died in 1975.
RQMS James Peter Keogh was with the 1st Battalion from about 1900 until it was disbanded in 1922 when he was RQMS, he then went on to complete his service as GQMS to the Gibraltar Garrison.
10843 Bandsman Hylliard Randolph DOUBLE, 1st Battalion - died in 10th August 1915 buried at Alexandria Military Cemetery
9843 Private Peter KAVANAGH 1st Battalion Died 28/03/1915 age 27 Son of Peter Kavanagh, of 16, Verschoyle Place, Lower Mount St., Dublin. Helles Memorial. CWGC database says 'Soldier, buried at sea.' Kavanagh died of pneumonia at 3.45 am on the 28/03/1915 in the ships hospital and was buried at sea at 12 noon that day.
10541 Private A Baker 1st Battalion Son of Sarah Ann Baker, of 5 Pipers Row,Wolverhampton and the late Edwin Baker. Died - 07 June, 1915. Aged - 25. Memorial - Port Said War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. B24
TURNER, H, Lce-cpl., 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Townsend House, Hall Street, Bilston. On a list of returned POWs in 1919.
Pte Albert Rickman of the 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers went missing on 1 July, the day his battalion attacked the Hawthorn Ridge. He was picked up a few weeks later and shot at dawn, in September 1916. If there wasn’t enough bloody killing going on! This poor fellow had to be shot for some obscure reason best known to those who condemned them. He was an Englishman, the son of a peasant farmer from Hampshire.
10774 Sergeant Stephen (JJ) Byrne was gazetted 22 Jan 1916... " acting serjeant S. Byrne, 1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers. For conspicuous gallantry on the night of 2nd-3rd October, 1915, on the Gallipoli peninsula. When a serjeant and one man of a covering party near "dublin castle" had been wounded, volunteers were called for to rescue them. They were lying between some Turkish snipers and some huts. Acting Serjeant Byrne and two men at once volunteered and brought the wounded men into safety under heavy fire." He received a DCM for the above but would love to know any details or any info on DCMs and about Stephen Byrne, also known as JJ byrne on some army records. His first theatre of war was the Balkans on 9/8/15. Does anyone know what EF/5/10180 on records mean? Oh he survived the war by the way and seemingly spent most of his life in England where he died sometime in 1950s I
30089 Private H MURPHY 1st Battalion Son of James and Mary Murphy, of 31, Stronds Rd., Dumbarton. Died age 33 on 01/05/1918. Probably a POW from cemetery
9062 Private Stephen Comerford, 1st Battalion. Balkans; date of entry, 14 July 1915; discharged 3 May 1916; medals: Victory, British, 1914-1915 Star. Joined in 1915. Within days, he was sent to the Greek island of Lemnos and on to Gallipoli and Suvla Bay. He was among the few survivors evacuated to Thessaloniki. In the severe Greek winter, many of them suffered frostbite, dysentery and other sicknesses. In the summer’s heat of 1916, more came down with malaria and were evacuated from Thessaloniki. Stephen was discharged on 3 May 1916, three days after the Easter Rising ended, and sent back to Dublin. Malaria was life-threatening but life-saving – for a few months at least.
29508 Lance CorporalFrancis Leslie HENRY 1st battalion Son of Mr. H. Francis, of 29, Column Rd., Cardiff. daied age 20 on 22/10/1918 at Limburg POW Camp
27390 Lance Corporal Charles Lionel O'GARRA 1st battalion Son of James W. and Margaret O'Garra, of 67, Milton St., West Gorton, ManchesterAge 20 on 01/08/1918 at Limburg POW Camp
40422 Private Stephen Byrne 1 Company 1st Battalion age 30 aged 30, executed on Sunday 28th October 1917. (Served as M. Monaghan). Brother of Thomas Byrne, of 32, Usher's Quay, Dublin.
10774 A/Sgt S Byrne 1st Battalion gets DCM in 22 Jan 1916
18984 Private J. LOUGHRAN Wounded 1915 1st Battalion.
21020 Private W Stanard 1st Battalion POW