Regiment Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 9th Battalion, No 2 Company
Later Royal Irish Rangers
Now Royal Irish Regiment
Rank VC Won Temporary Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Temporary Second Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Seven Oaks, Collon, near Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland
Place Of Death Near La Vacquerie, France
Buried/Location Ashes Named on Cambrai Memorial to the Missing, Louveral Military Cemetery, Doignies, 8 miles east of Bapaume, Nord, France (location unknown)
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
HeadstonePlot/Grave no. Panel 5
Gazetted 13 February 1918
VC Presented 3 April 1918 by Brigadier-General W Hackett-Payne CB at Whitworth Hall, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland to his mother
Memorials
P Named on Cambrai Memorial to the Missing, France
Named on Family Headstone, Church of Ireland Churchyard, Collon, Co. Louth, Ireland
Named on War Memorial, In front of, Church of Ireland Churchyard, Collon, Co. Louth, Ireland
Named on War Memorial, Mary Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Ulster Tower, Thiepval, Somme, France
Named on Regimental Victoria Cross Memorial, St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Memorial Plaque, Mount Temple School, Dublin, Ireland
By The Way…
After amalgamations, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers are now the Royal Irish Regiment, whose mascot is an Irish Wolfhound called Brian Boru the 1X.
