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6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment
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Those known to have served with6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Barago Henry. Pte. (d.18th Dec 1916)
- Bolger Michael. Sgt. (d.12th Aug 1917)
- Bradley William. Pte. (d.13th February 1915)
- Brown Henry. Pte. (d.26th Nov 1916)
- Butler Martin. Pte. (d.4th June 1916)
- de_Carteret Henry James. Pte. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
- Diver John James. Pte. (d.21st August 1916)
- Doherty John. Pte. (d.21st Jan 1916)
- Doherty Patrick. Pte. (d.26th Oct 1916)
- Duggan Maurice. Pte. (d.7th June 1917)
- Earthy Stanley Harry. Pte. (d.3rd September 1916)
- Edmonds Harry William. Pte. (d.9th Sep 1916)
- Flood Thomas Patrick. Pte. (d.5th April 1917)
- Friel Edward. Pte. (d.9th Sep 1916)
- Geoghegan Martin. Pte. (d.5th August 1917)
- Glennon Jeremiah J.. Pte. (d.9th Sep 1916)
- Hanrahan John. Pte. (d.30th Jan 1917)
- Kyle James. Pte (d.9th September 1916)
- Lafferty James. Pte. (d.9th September 1916)
- Lafferty James. Pte. (d.9th Sep 1916)
- Lynch Stephen. Pte. (d.19th Dec 1917)
- Malcolmson Hubert. Lt. (d.16th September 1916)
- Martin Richard. A/Cpl.
- Martin Richard. A/Cpl.
- Martin Richard. A/Cpl.
- McAllister Patrick. Pte. (d.28th Jan 1916)
- McAllister Patrick. Pte. (d.28th Jan 1916)
- McCann William. Pte
- McGee Paul. Pte. (d.16th Jun 1916)
- Meehan William. L/Cpl. (d.16th Dec 1916)
- Nolan Michael. Sgt. (d.18th Dec 1916)
- O'Keeffe Patrick. Pte. (d.1st Sep 1916)
- O'Keeffe Patrick. Pte. (d.1st Sep 1916)
- O'Neill Cornelius. Pte. (d.21st July 1916)
- O'Rourke James. Pte. (d.4th May 1917)
- Pocknell John. Pte. (d.4th Jun 1916)
- Reade Robert. Pte.
- Rooney John. Pte
- Smith MC MiD. Lawder Benjamin Sandys. Capt.
- Smitheram William. Pte. (d.5th April 1917)
- Sweeney Hugh. Pte. (d.27th June 1916)
- Vamplew Samuel. Pte. (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Wigzell Reginald. L/Sgt. (d.5th June 1917)
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A/Cpl. Richard "Duckser" Martin 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment My grandfather Richard Martin served with the 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment and was wounded on the 3rd of September 1916 at Guillemont. He fought with Kilkenny men (Sgt. Morrisey, Dan Flood, Kenny). I don't have his medical records or know if he continued on to the end of the war.
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Pte. Harry William Edmonds 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment (d.9th Sep 1916) William was killed in action in France.
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Pte. Patrick McAllister 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.28th Jan 1916) Patrick McAllister is interred in Vermelles British Cemetery in France. His name is also commemorated on the Diamond War Memorial in Derry. He was the husband of Mrs. Alice McAllister and the youngest son of Mr. Con McAllister of 15 Benvarden Avenue, Derry.
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Pte John Rooney 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment My Grandfather, John Rooney of the 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment. On the field July 21st 1916. He survived the war and is
buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
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Pte. Robert Reade A Coy. 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment Robert Reade served with A Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment.
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Pte. Thomas Patrick Flood 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.5th April 1917) Thomas Flood served with the 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, attached 47th Trench Mortar Battery, in WW1. He died 5th of April 1917 aged 25 years and is buried La Laiterie Military Cemetery in Belgium. Son of John and Mary Flood of Walkin St. Kilkenny.
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Pte. Patrick McAllister 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.28th Jan 1916) Patrick McAllister is interred in Vermelles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France and commemorated on the Diamond War Memorial.
He was the husband of Mrs Alice McAllister of 58 Bridge Street, Derry.
He had joined the Irish Brigade at the end of 1914, and went out to the Western Front a couple of months before he met his death. He was the youngest son of Mr Con McAllister of 15 Benvarden Avenue, Derry.
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Pte. Paul McGee 6th Battalion (d.16th Jun 1916) Great Uncle Paul McGee rests at the St. Marys ADS cemetery in France. His brother Peter, rests about a mile away at the Loos memorial. My family and I travelled from Australia to the battlefields of France including the Normandy beaches of WW2 and the Somme of WW1.
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A/Cpl. Richard "Duckser" Martin 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment Richard Martin joined up on the 6th of October 1914 and was wounded in action at Guillemont on the 3rd of November 1916. I don't know if he finished the war or not.
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Pte. Stanley Harry Earthy 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment (d.3rd September 1916) Stanley Earthy as around 36 years old when he died on the 3rd of September 1916. That day his Battalion was in action at Guillemont. He fought with the 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, which was assigned to the 47th Irish Brigade, 16th Irish Division. Before the war, he had served with the East Surrey Regiment in India, Aden and Malta.
His parents were Owen Charles and Lucy Earthy.
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Capt. Lawder Benjamin Sandys Smith MC MiD. 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment Lawder Smith served with the Army Service Corps as a Lieutenant and arrived in France on the 12th of August 1914. He transferred to 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers in June 1916 and fought on Somme, where he won the MC at Lesboeufs on the 12th of October 1916, where he was wounded.
He then transferred to 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment in February 1917 then 119th Regiment, Indian Army in Feb 1918 and served until 1923 in Mesopotamia and Waziristan.
Subsequently he was a civil engineer in India, Rhodesia and Iraq.
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Pte. James O'Rourke 6th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment (d.4th May 1917) James O'Rourke had previously been wounded. He is remembered on the Menin Gate in Ypres.
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Pte. Cornelius O'Neill 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.21st July 1916) Con O'Neill was my great uncle. He is buried at Dud Corner, Loos
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Pte. Martin Geoghegan 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.5th August 1917) Private Geoghegan was the Husband of Johannah Geoghegan, of Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny.
He was 24 when he died and is buried East of the ruins in the Tinnahinch (St. Michael's) Cemetery, St. Mullens, Co Carlow, Ireland
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Lt. Hubert Malcolmson 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.16th September 1916) Lieutenant Malcolmson died of wounds and is buried in the south west corner of the Clonmel Friends' Burial Ground, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
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Pte. John Hanrahan 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.30th Jan 1917) John Hanrahan was 22 when he died and is buried on the east boundary of the Ballingarry Old Graveyard in Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
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L/Cpl. William Meehan 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.16th Dec 1916) My grandfather William Meehan, was serving in the 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment when he was killed in December 1916. In October 1916, the battalion was moved from the Somme area in France to positions south west of Ypres. Their camp was on the Kemmel-Poperinge road near La Clytte. They remained in that area until mid March 1917. According to the official history, they were in "brigade reserve" and "the routine was four days in front line trenches, four days in support line and eight days in reserve". My grandfather was 1 of 3 officers and 14 men killed during the period October 1916 to March 1917.
According to another historical document I have on the RIR war dead, my grandfather was killed in action on 16th of December 1916. He enlisted in Clonmel but I don't know when. He is buried in Pond Farm Cemetery which makes sense given the location of the 6th Battalion in December 1916. I've not yet had any luck in locating the official war diaries of the 6th Battalion for December 1916. If and when I do, I think there's a good chance of finding out how he died.
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L/Sgt. Reginald Wigzell 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.5th June 1917) Reginald Wigzell was born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland in 1887. His father, my great grandfather, John Wigzell born in Seven Oaks in Kent was a sergent in the British Army and was stationed in Clonmel. Reginald had a nephew named Reginald Heap,3rd radio officer on ship called Llanashe, who was killed in the 2nd World War when ship was torpediod in 1943.
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Pte. William Bradley 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.13th February 1915) William Bradley enlisted with the National Volunteers following John Redmond's call to fight for other small nations. Just under 300 nationalists from Derry answered this call and they were led by Redmond's brother, who had already been imprisoned twice for his Irish Nationalist ideals. William Bradley was one of the first to die, succumbing to illness at the Fermoy training camp in Cork where he was buried. His brother Fred joined at the same time and managed to survive for another year before dying of wounds received in Belgium.
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Pte. John James Diver 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment (d.21st August 1916) Private John James Diver, 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment was killed in a night raid on a German trench on the Western Front near Loos on 21st August 1916. The war diary entry mentions the raiding party using Bangalore Torpedoes, which were explosive charges placed within tubes and used to clear obstacles like barbed wire whilst under fire. Officers who were killed that night are named in the diary, Lieutenants Fitzgibbon and Byrne. Five ‘other ranks’ were killed, among them my great uncle John James Diver. His unit was moved from the frontline the next day. He left a young widow and children back in Derry, Ireland. My grandfather William Diver (John James’ younger brother) was also in the 6th Battalion and in a field hospital being treated for shell shock when his brother was killed. He survived the war, and in June 1940 whilst then serving in the Royal Engineers was evacuated from Dunkirk which is only about 50 miles from where his brother was buried 24 years previously. He was later captured by the Germans on the island of Crete in 1941 and spent four years in a POW camp in Germany.
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