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4th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers
5th Aug 1914 4th Munsters mobilise The 4th Royal Munster Fusiliers were assembled at Kinsale before proceeding to Queenstown.
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Pte. Patrick Creedon MM. 1st Btn Royal Munster Fusiliers Patrick Creedon was born in Cork, Ireland in September 1897.
He served as a Private in the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, as an Acting Corporal in the Royal Irish Rifles and an Acting Corporal in the Labour Corps.
Patrick was listed in the Casualty Lists on and was awarded the Military Medal on 23rd of October 1916.
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2nd. Lt. James Hampton Bennet MC. 2nd Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.22nd September 1916) James Bennet was the son of John Colin & Alvenia Bennet of 17 Oaklands Road, Bedford. Born 12th July 1893 in Sheffield, he lived in Bedford with his parents. Initially served with the 4th Battalion and then attached to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was awarded the Military Cross, mentioned in Supplement to the London Gazette on 9th December 1915 He was killed in action on 22nd September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and is commemorated at the Thiepval Memorial. He is remembered on the Roll of Honour, St. Pauls church, Bedford. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1907-09, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. The Old Boys of this School who, as in duty bound, laid down their lives in a great cause. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
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Pte. Patrick O'Driscoll 4th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.13th April 1921) Private Patrick O'Driscoll (served as Driscoll) is buried in the Athnowen (St. Mary) Church of Ireland Churchyardin Ovens, Co.Cork
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Captain Richard Hutchins 4th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.13th April 1915) Richard Hutchins was the husband of Isabel A. E. Hutchins, of Ardnagashel, Bantry, Co Cork. He was 39 years old when he died. He is buried on the private grounds of his estate near the North Shore of Bantry Bay.
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Capt. Miles Henry O'Donovan 4th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.20th June 1916) Miles Henry O'Donovan was the second son of Morgan William O’Donovan and Mary Eleanor his wife of Liss ard Skibbereen Co. Cork and grandson of Henry Winthrop O’Donovan.
He was born on the 26th of June 1895 and killed in action in France on the 20th of June 1916, buried at Mazingarbe.
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CSM John McCarthy 4th Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers (d.8th Jan 1916) Thanks to this site I have located my grandfather's grave site, a place we as a family could never visit, until now. He was CSM John McCarthy of the 4th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers, and who died 8th January 1916.
I will be visiting his grave in Douglas this Saturday. Due to family circumstances my Dad did not know where his father was buried. My Dad passed in 1985 but now as a family we can make this link. Again many thanks.
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