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1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers were in Madras when war broke out in August 1914. They returned to Britain landing at Plymouth on the 21st of December 1914. They went into to billets in Torquay, moving in January 1915 to Nuneaton to join 86th Brigade, 29th Division. On the
16th of March 1915 they sailed from Avonmouth for Gallipoli, via Alexandria and Mudros. They landed at Cape Helles on the 25th of April 1915. After suffering heavy casualties and on the 30th of April they merged with the 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers forming a unit nick named the 'Dubsters'. They resumed their own identity on the 19th of May 1915. They were evacuated from Gallipoli in the first week of January, returning to Egypt. On the 13th of March 1916 they sailed from Port Said for Marseilles, travelling by train to concentrate in the area east of Pont Remy by the end of March. In July they went into action in the Battles of the Somme. In 1917 they were in action in the The First, Second and Third Battle of the Scarpe during the Arras Offensive, then moved to Flanders and fought in the The Battle of Langemarck. On the 19th of October they transferred to 48th Brigade in 16th (Irish) Division. On the 10th of February 1918 they absorbed 200 men from the disbanding 8/9th Battalion. In 1918 they were in action on the Somme 1918 suffering very heavy casualties and on the 14th of April 1918 the battalion amalgamated with 2nd battalion. On the
26th of April 1918 the 1dt Dublin Fusiliers transferred to 86th Brigade, 29th Division. They were involved in The Action of Outtersteene Ridge, The capture of Ploegsteert and Hill 63 during the Advance in Flanders. At the Armistice the 29th Division was selected to march into Germany to occupy the Rhine bridgehead, they crossed the Belgian-German border at Malmedy on the 4th of December 1918. Demobilisation began in December.
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14th Oct 1918 British advance towards Lys. On the 14th of October 1918, the 29th Division including the 1st Dublins & 2nd Leinsters, 40th division & 36th, began an advance towards Lys. They achieved considerable success on the first day. There was little resistance and it is said that the Germans were standing with their kit, ready to march away as prisoners. However their resistance increased in the afternoon.
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Those known to have served with1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the Great War 1914-1918. - Allen Matthew. Pte. (d.21st March 1918)
- Allen Paul. Pte, (d.15th June 1915)
- Andrews Charles. Pte. (d.1st Jul 1916)
- Bailey Joseph. Pte. (d.25th Apr 1915)
- Bannon Philip. L/Cpl. (d.7th Aug 1915)
- Barrett John. Pte. (d.6th Aug 1915)
- Barry Albert. Pte. (d.30th Apr 1915)
- Bates John. Pte. (d.4th Oct 1917)
- Bernard Robert. Lt. (d.26th Apr 1915)
- Betts Alfred. Cpl. (d.25th Apr 1915)
- Boland Thomas. Pte. (d.1st March 1917)
- Booth Patrick. Pte. (d.28th Apr 1915)
- Bowman James. Pte (d.10th April 1918)
- Boylan Michael. Pte. (d.6th July 1916 )
- Boyne Michael. L/Cpl. (d.12th July 1915)
- Boyne Thomas. Pte. (d.1st Mar 1917)
- Brady Daniel. L/Cpl. (d.18th Aug 1917)
- Brady John. Pte. (d.29th Jun 1915)
- Brady Patrick. Pte. (d.19th Apr 1917)
- Brady Patrick. Pte. (d.29th Jun 1915)
- Brannigan John. Pte. (d.30th Apr 1915)
- Breen John. Pte. (d.3rd Mar 1917)
- Brennan Charles. Pte. (d.13th May 1918)
- Brennan Christopher. Pte. (d.1st Jul 1916)
- Brennan Patrick. Pte. (d.9th Sep 1916)
- Brennan Thomas. CSM. (d.22nd Jul 1916)
- Brennock Thomas. Sgt. (d.28th Feb 1917)
- Breslin Robert. A/Cpl. (d.18th Aug 1917)
- Brien Thomas. Pte. (d.15th Jun 1915)
- Brooks MM. John. Sgt. (d.4th Sep 1918)
- Brown Thomas. Pte. (d.4th Sep 1918)
- Brown Thomas. Pte. (d.30th Sep 1918)
- Cann James. Pte. (d.25th May 1918)
- Cooper James. Pte. (d.9th May 1915)
- Culshaw David. Pte. (d.14th July 1917)
- Doyle Edward. Cpl. (d.28th September 1918 )
- Doyle William. Pte.
- Dunne Joseph. Pte. (d.24th May 1915)
- Dunne Lawrence. Pte. (d.20th Jun 1916)
- Dunne Michael. Pte. (d.1st July 1915)
- Fields John William. Drmr. (d.19th July 1917)
- Finnie MM John Redican. Cpl (d.14 October 1918)
- Gordon Duncan. (d.21st - 29th March 1918)
- Grace L.. Pte.
- Harris Sidney Raymond. Pte. (d.24th Apr 1917)
- Housham Thomas Henry. Cpl.
- Hynes Christopher. L/Cpl. (d.15th Oct 1918)
- Kelly Henry. Pte.
- Leland Walter Alfred. Lt. (d.4th Jun 1915)
- McDonald John. Pte. (d.3rd June 1915)
- McGuigan Stephen. Pte. (d.5th Sep 1915)
- Moore Charles. (d.7th September 1918)
- Mulhall P.. Pte. (d.14th January 1917)
- Neary Anthony. Pte. (d.29th Jun 1915)
- Nicholl Archibald. Pte. (d.22nd Dec 1915)
- Nugent Edward. Pte. (d.29th Sept 1918)
- O'Connor John. Pte (d.2nd Mar 1917)
- Parker Patrick. Pte. (d.10th August 1917)
- Parker Patrick. Pte. (d.10th Aug 1917)
- Phelan James. Pte. (d.8th Nov 1915)
- Phelan James. Pte. (d.8th November 1915)
- Reardon Henry. Pte. (d.29th June 1918)
- Reid Anthony. Pte. (d.21st Oct 1916)
- Reid James. Pte. (d.26th Jul 1915)
- Rickman Albert. Pte. (d.15th Sep 1916)
- Roche T.. Pte (d.13th Feb 1917)
- Sullivan John. Pte. (d.28th Jun 1915)
- Supple William Joseph. Pte. (d.25th Apr 1915)
- Upton William Thomas . Pte. (d.24th April 1917)
- Wardlaw Charles. Pte. (d.29th July 1916)
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Pte T. Roche 1st Btn Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.13th Feb 1917) T. Roche of the 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers lost his life due to gas poisoning.
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Cpl. Thomas Henry Housham 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers At the age of 17, Thomas Housham enlisted into the regular Army with the Wiltshire Regiment at Devises on 8th of September 1914. He was transferred to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on 17th of September 1914, joining the 6th (Service) Battalion at Naas, Southern Ireland. On 11th of July 1915, the Battalion sailed to Mitillini on the island of Levos, Greece off the west coast of Turkey. He was wounded in action and was posted on 23rd of August 1915 to Depot in Cork, Southern Ireland.
On 23ed of March 1916, Thomas was posted to the 1st Battalion, which was placed within the 86th Brigade, 29th Division and deployed to the Picardie, Flanders, and Normandy regions of France. On 28th of August, he was promoted to unpaid Lance Corporal during the battle of the Somme (he always stated this was because of his tea-making excellence). He was promoted to Corporal on 6th of March 1917. Wounded on the Somme, he was sent to 3rd (Reserve) Battalion to convalesce in Cork, Southern Ireland. Afterwards, in July 1917, he was assigned to the 1st Battalion in France and then to the 9th (Service) Battalion, which later become 8/9th Battalion. He also served with the 2nd Battalion.
In April 1918, he was assigned back to the 1st Battalion due to the 2nd Battalion being reduced to cadre. On 5th of October 1918, he was posted to Depot, which by all accounts was in the Grimsby area of England. On 5th of December 1918, he was posted to Command Depot in Tipperary, Southern Ireland. On 10 January 1919, he was sent to the dispersal area in Purfleet, Essex. One month later, on 9th Feb 1919, Thomas was demobbed at the age of 21.
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Duncan Gordon 1st Btn. Royal Dublin fusiliers (d.21st - 29th March 1918) Duncan Gordon was killed whilst serving with the 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers between 21st and 29th of March 1918. He was the son of the late William and Hannah Gordon and husband of Harriet of 30 Chapel Terrace, Scotswood, Northumberland.
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L/Cpl. Christopher Hynes 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.15th Oct 1918) Christopher Hynes was born on the 1st of Dec 1890 at 26 Meath St, Dublin, the son of Patrick Hynes and Mary Anne Callaghan.
He was the husband of Julia Anne Scanlon, father of Mary Anne, Christopher Hubert, Julia Christina and James Gerard.
Christopher died on the 15th of October 1918 and is buried in Dadizeele New British cemetery, in Belgium.
His brother James Hynes, serving with the 8th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died at the Battle of Hulluch in April 1916.
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Pte. John Sullivan 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.28th Jun 1915) John Sullivan was my Great great grandfather.
He is remembered on the monument in Cork City and Helles Monument, Turkey.
He left behind 3 young kids and his wife.
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Pte. Anthony Reid 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.21st Oct 1916) Anthony Reid was killed in action at the battle of the Somme on Saturday 21st October 1916.
He has no grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, he is also mentioned on the Glasgow Cenotaph.
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Pte. William Thomas Upton 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.24th April 1917) WilliamUpton was born in Acton in 1898, the son of William and Emily Upton. The 1911 census shows the family living at 26 Richards Cottages, Acton, London.
He served with the 1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and was killed in action on the 24th of April 1917 aged 19 years, during the second Battle of the Scarpes, Battle of Arras. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He is also remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.
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Pte. Thomas Brown 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.30th Sep 1918) I found out that my grandmother had lost her first husband in WW1 so I was determined to find out about him. As a sign of respect I wanted to commemorate him. After nearly two years of searching I now know he was called Thomas Brown, born Newcastle upon Tyne in 1891 or 92 (his birth certificate eludes me), married my grandmother 1914 at the age of 22 and died in Belgium September 1917 aged 25 or 26. RIP
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Pte. William Doyle 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers William Doyle was awarded the following medals: 1914/1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal, General Service medal 1918 - Clasp Iraq.
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Pte. John McDonald 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.3rd June 1915) Private McDonald was the Son of Timothy McDonald, of 5, Crofton Parade, Kingstown.
He was 27 when he died and is buried in the South-West part, Just West of ruin, in the Kill of the Grange Old graveyard, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
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Pte. P. Mulhall 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.14th January 1917) Private Mulhall was the Son of David and Mary Mulhall, of Bridewell St., Carlow.
He was 23 when he died and is buried on the North-East boundary of the Carlow Old Cemetery in Co. Carlow, Ireland.
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Pte. James Phelan 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.8th November 1915) Private Phelan was the son of Mrs Mary Phelan, of Blackhill, Abbeyleix.
He was 28 when he died and is buried in the Abbeyleix New Cemetery in Abbeyleix, Ireland, his grave is at the south-west of entrance gate.
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Pte. James Phelan 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.8th Nov 1915) James Phalen was the son of Mrs. Mary Phelan, of Blackhill, Abbeyleix. He died age 28 and is buried in the Abbeyleix New Cemetery South-West of entrance gate.
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Pte. Henry Reardon 9th Btn., Att. 1st Army Infantry School Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.29th June 1918)  Henry Reardon was born in Dublin city in 1896 (birth date estimated), where he lived with his family in his early years in the Guinness Trust Buildings, New Bride Street. He came from a family of tailors. By 1911, Henry had emigrated from Ireland and was living in Liverpool. Within a few years he enlisted in the 9th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Unfortunately Henrys military record did not survive. Private Henry Reardon, regiment number 27435, attached The First Army Infantry School.
We know from his army index card that Henry fought in the Western European theatre of war. His medal roll index card indicates Henry was awarded the Victory medal and the British War medal. He died in France on 29th June 1918. Henry did not die in action, but in the 25th General Hospital Hardelot from bronchial pneumonia. He was 22 years old.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cites Henrys burial place as Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas de Calais, France.
While Private Henry Reardon commenced his army service in the 9th Battalion RDF, according to his death certificate by 1918 he had transferred to the 1st Battalion RDF.
Henry's story was lost to our family and only recently have we been able to piece together some details of his life and death. Remarkably for us it was his first cousin Michael O'Reardon (who fought as a young 17-year-old in the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers at the Four Courts in the 1916 Rising and lived till 1982), who kept in touch with Henry's surviving family in Liverpool and had the family memorial card and Death Memorial Plaque in his effects when he died. It is with great pride that we, as an Irish family, remember both cousins Henry and Michael in this special year of centenaries 2016.
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Charles Moore 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.7th September 1918) Charles Moore was killed in action in France on the 7th of September 1918.
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Lt. Walter Alfred Leland 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.4th Jun 1915)  The only known WW1 casualty on my family tree, Walter Leland was born on 3rd of March 1893 in Liverpool, the first child of Alfred and Eugenie (nee Gollin), and was registered as Walter Alfred Lazarus. He was educated at Charterhouse where he was a crack rifle shot, winning several medals for the rifle club.
He moved to Sydney in 1912, to join the Australian firm of Gollin and Son for his planned career in 'commercial pursuits'. On the outbreak of war he immediately decided to return to England on the first outgoing steamer, the SS Demosthenes from Brisbane.
He was given a commission as Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in November, 1914, initially attached to the 10th Battalion Bedfordshires. For some months his regiment was stationed at Harwich, on the east coast. It was then sent to the White City, in London for further training. After a brilliant result of competitive examination in musketry, etc., he obtained his lieutenancy in April 1915.
He left for Gallipoli Peninsula in May, attached to the 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Lieutenant Leland was at Gabà Tepè only four days. On 4th June, the day after his arrival he was ordered to advance up the Nullah at the head of his section. On turning a bend they cut through wire entanglements and came on hidden Turkish guns, the fire from which killed almost the entire section, Lieutenant Leland falling with the rest. Only a few survived the action, and the trench which they were seeking was not taken until three weeks afterwards. His body was recovered and buried at Gallipoli on 28th June. His name appears on the Helles memorial, and also on the family plaque at Golders Green crematorium.
Lieutenant Leland was very musical, and the writing of music and verse were his principal hobbies.
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Pte. David Culshaw 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.14th July 1917) My son was asked to do a history project and find a relative who fought in WW1 if possible so that he could write a letter home from the trenches as that person. At the same time I was researching my father's family history, especially the Culshaw arm. We were all delighted to find our relative, David Culshaw in the war grave data base, but then equally sad to find out he died so young - aged 19. He was an only child of my father's grandmother's brother and my dad always knew there was a sadness about his great uncle. I found out from the war diary that there was a lot of gas sent over by Lievens Projectors and regular shelling of trenches on the date of his death. I visited David's war grave in Bard Cottage Cemetery on a holiday to Belgium a few years ago and am taking my dad over this month. My son wrote a great letter from the trenches, reliving his relative's awful experience in his imagination.
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Pte. Stephen McGuigan 1st Btn Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.5th Sep 1915) Stephen McGuigan is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.
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Pte. L. Grace 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Pte L. Grace signed an autograph book belonging to Nurse Macnab whilst being treated in Espomn War Hospital on 9th of September 1915.
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Pte. Charles Wardlaw 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.29th July 1916) Charles Wardlaw is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres.
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