4th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers

1st Feb 1915 Inspection

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Bate Albert Francis. Lt. (d.14th Mar 1915)
Heenan Thomas George Grandon. 2Lt. (d.21st March 1918)
Humphrey MC. William. 2Lt. (d.24th October 1918)
Leary William James. Sgt.

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Sgt. William James Leary 4th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers

William Leary was transferred from Cardiff where he was hospitalised to the 4th Royal Dublin Fusiliers before his medically unfit discharge.
Heather Leary

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2Lt. Thomas George Grandon Heenan 4th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.21st March 1918)

Born in Belfast, Ireland in 1892, Thomas Heenan was the son of William Patrick Heenan, a civil servant with the Board of Trade, and his wife Kathleen Mary (nee Grandon). Thomas was working as a journalist in Belfast at the time of the 1911 census but was then admitted to the Civil Service and followed his father into the Board of Trade.
In June 1915 he was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion and attached to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He served in France until his death on the Somme during the Second Somme Offensive. This is officially recorded as 21st of March 1918 but is not a definitive date since he had been reported missing and this is date when it seems the Army determined he could not be located and was presumed dead. According to Army records he was 23 years old.
The day of his death was marked by a heavy and sustained attack by the German forces. At the end of an assault lasting five hours which involved gas and explosives, the 1st Batallion of the Fusiliers retreated. Six hundred soldiers were missing, leaving the battalion with only five officers and ninety men.
He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial in France. He was awarded posthumously the British Medal and the Victory Medal. His parents were living at 42 Derwent Road, Stoneycroft, Liverpool at the time of his death. The family subsequently returned to Ireland where William Heenan died in County Cork in October 1932 and his wife Kathleen a few months later, in December 1932. They had no living children.
Karen Heenan-Davies

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2Lt. William Humphrey MC. 4th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.24th October 1918)

Bill Humphrey was my grandmother's first cousin. She was very close to Bill and he was about 6 years older than her.
He was conscripted into the Army in 1916 and attached to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He was wounded on about 6th October 1918 near Villers Farm in Northern France, attached to the 3rd Royal Dublin Fusiliers, when he was leading an assault on a fortified farm and his platoon took 6 machine gun posts and 76 prisoners. He was evacuated to the military hospital near Etaples and died of his wounds on 24th iof October 1918.
Davina Mackay

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Lt. Albert Francis Bate 4th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (d.14th Mar 1915)

Alfred Bate, son of Edward Reginald and Charlotte Frederica Bate (nee Bell), of 2 Eden Park, DÃºn Laoghaire, County Dublin, was born in Kingstown (now known as Dun Laoghaire), Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, achieving a B.A., and also studied Law at King's Inns, Dublin. When the war began he was preparing for call to the Irish Bar.
In addition to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers he was also attached to Leinster Regiment 2nd Battalion. Lieutenant Bate was killed in action in France aged 22, and is buried in Ferme Buterne Military Cemetery. He is commemorated on the War Memorial Plaque inside the 1937 Reading Room of Trinity College, Dublin.
S Flynn

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