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Connaught Rangers




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There are:6634 items tagged Connaught Rangers available in our Library

  These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.


Those known to have served with

Connaught Rangers

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Ambrose Patrick. Pte 2nd Battalion
  • Armstrong Charles. Pte. 6th Btn.
  • Atwell Robert Erskine. Lt. 4th Btn. (d.2nd Sep 1918)
  • Bannerman James. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.8th Feb 1917)
  • Bannon John. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.20th Sep 1914)
  • Battersby A. W.. Lt. 4th Bn. attd. Nigeria Regiment, WAFF (d.8th June 1915)
  • Beatty Eric Edge. Lt. 6th Btn (d.4th Apr 1916)
  • Begley Henry Frederick. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.27th Jul 1919)
  • Berney David. L/Sgt. 2nd Btn. (d.1st Nov 1914)
  • Blacker Cecil Francis. Lt. 2nd Btn. (d.6th September 1914)
  • Blake Alfred Joseph William. T/Lt. 5th Battalion (d.21st Aug 1915)
  • Bolger Patrick. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
  • Bolger Peter. Sgt. (d.1st Nov 1917)
  • Booth Edwun F.. L/Cpl. 6th Btn. (d.3rd Aug 1917)
  • Bowles Augustine. Sgt. 2nd Btn. (d.10th Sep 1918)
  • Boylan Robert. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.23rd Nov 1914)
  • Brady F.. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.12th August 1915)
  • Brennan Louis J.. Sgt. 1st Garrison Btn. (d.4th May 1917)
  • Brennan Michael. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.2nd May 1916)
  • Brockie George. Sgt. 5th Btn. (d.10th Sep 1915)
  • Broderick Alfred. Pte 6th Btn (d.3rd Sep 1916)
  • Brophy Bernard. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.21st Aug 1918)
  • Brophy William. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.21st Jan 1916)
  • Bytheway Richard. Pte. 5th Battalion (d.22nd August 1915)
  • Callaghan T.. Pte. 1st Btn.
  • Casey John. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.11th March 1915)
  • Casey John. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.21st March 1918)
  • Casey Peter. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.23rd June 1917)
  • Casey Peter. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.23rd June 1917)
  • Cassidy T.. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.1st May 1918)
  • Clarke William James Thomas. Pte.
  • Clarke William. Sgt. 3rd Btn. (d.29th May 1915)
  • Conway Michael. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.27th Dec 1915)
  • Cox DCM. John Thomas. Sgt.
  • Cummins J. Pte 5th Battalion (d.10th November 1918)
  • Daly James Joseph. Pte. 1st Btn.
  • Daly James Joseph. Pte. 1st Btn.
  • Delaney W. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.29th Nov 1920)
  • Devers John Joseph. Pte. C Coy. 1st Btn.
  • Dixon M.. Sjt. 6th Btn. (d.7th Jun 1917)
  • Donnelly Michael. 3rd Battalion, E Company.
  • Dunne Michael. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.3rd May 1916)
  • Dunne Patrick. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
  • Durkan John V.. L/Sgt. 4th Btn. (d.22nd April 1916)
  • Eccleston William. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.11th Aug 1915)
  • Elvidge Laurence. 2nd Lt. 5th Btn. (d.9th Aug 1916)
  • Evers Michael. L/Cpl. 1st Btn. (d.2nd Nov 1914)
  • Feeney Patrick. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.22nd July 1915)
  • Ferguson John. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.11th Jul 1917)
  • Fielding DSO. Rowland. Lt. Col. 6th Btn.
  • Finan Frank Mark. Pte. 10th Btn (d.24th Aug 1918)
  • Finnerty John. Pte. 2nd Btn
  • Fitzpatrick George. Sgt. 6th Btn.
  • Flynn Charles. CSM. 2nd Btn
  • Flynn Patrick. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.21st Mar 1918)
  • Flynn Thomas. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.26th February 1915)
  • Fogarty James William. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.21st June 1917)
  • Fowley Thomas. Pte. 4th (Extra Reserve) Btn. (d.18th Oct 1915)
  • Frick Oscar. L/Cpl. 2nd Bn. attd. Connaught Rangers (d.8th July 1916)
  • Gilkes Frederick John. Bdmn. 3rd Btn. (d.6th Sep 1916)
  • Hardy Jocelyn L.. Lt.
  • Hog Archibald Swinton. Capt. 5th Btn. (d.20th August 1915)
  • Holain Stephan. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.24th June 1915)
  • Jackson David. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.21st March 1918)
  • Jones Joseph. L/Sgt. 3rd Btn. (d.10th Oct 1918)
  • Jourdain Henry. Lt.Col. 5th Btn.
  • Kelly Patrick Joseph. Pte. 5th Battalion (d.8th Oct 1918)
  • Killoran Patrick. Pte. 5th Btn
  • Knox Michael. Pte. 5th Btn
  • Lalor Eugene. Pte. 6th Btn
  • Lawrence William John. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.15th August 1915)
  • Lenox-Conyngham J. A.M.. Lt.Col. (d.3rd Sep 1916)
  • Lyons Eugene. L/Cpl. 6th Btn. (d.15th Feb 1918)
  • Lyons John. Cpl. 5th Btn. (d.4th April 1915)
  • Maguire Hugh. 2nd Lt 6th Btn (d.9th Sept 1916)
  • Mallins Claude O'Conor. Lt. 2nd Btn. (d.2nd Nov 1914)
  • Mason John. Pte 5th Battalion
  • McClure T. A.. 2nd Lt. (d.28th May 1918)
  • McDonnell MID John. Rifleman
  • McGlade Daniel. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.31st Jul 1916)
  • McHale Joseph. Pte.
  • McKeever John. Pte 6th Btn (d.8th March 1917)
  • McMahon John. Pte. (d.2nd Sep 1916)
  • Moran E. P.. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.29th Sep 1919)
  • Murphy Patrick James. Pte. 1st Battalion (d.April 1916)
  • O'Keeffe Robert. Sgt. 1st Garrison Btn. (d.17th April 1917)
  • O'Leary Henry. RSM 1st Btn. (d.3rd November 1915)
  • O'Mahony Daniel Joseph. Sgt.
  • O'Neill Denis. Pte. 6th (Service) Btn. (d.31st Jan 1918)
  • Patton Thomas James. Rflmn. 10th (South Belfast) Btn. (d.1st July 1916)
  • Reynolds B.. Pte. (d.8th October 1916)
  • Reynolds Michael. Pte. (d.5th March 1915)
  • Round Enoch. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.21st Aug 1915)
  • Sarsfield William Stopford. Mjr. 2nd Btn (d.20th Sep 1914)
  • Scott J. Pte. 3rd Btn. (d.4th Dec 1918)
  • Shields Thomas. Pte (d.6th April 1917)
  • Smith Michael. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.9th Sep 1916)
  • Toohey DCM. Michael. Pte. 1st Btn.
  • Tosh James. Pte 6th Battalion (d.26th July 1916)
  • Trainor Foster James. Pte. 3rd Battalion, D Company
  • Tyrrell John. Pte. 4th Btn. (d.8th February 1916)
  • Verth William David.
  • Wallace Andrew. Pte. 6th Btn.

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Pte. John Ferguson 1st Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.11th Jul 1917)

John Ferguson was my great-uncle, my grandmother's brother. He was underage when he signed up. He was gassed at the Somme and suffered other illnesses and was hospitalised. He was killed near Baghdad.

Geoff Reid




262530

Pte. John Casey 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers (d.21st March 1918)

His headstone

John Casey died, killed in action, on 21st of March 1918 on the first day of the German Spring Offensive. He had enlisted in Glasgow and served also with the 3rd Battalion of the Connaught Rangers.

For 100 years he was lost to his family. His sisters had emigrated to America before he enlisted so they never knew what had become of him. His sister’s last memory of him was as a young boy playing the tin whistle at the door of their home in Glensaul. Through research, and thanks to the internet, we were able to trace John. On 21st of March 2019 his grand niece and grand nephew, along with a great grand nephew, visited his grave in Ste Emilie Valley Cemetery, France on the 100th anniversary of his death. They were the first members of his family to stand at his grave. He had been buried initially on the battlefield but his grave was discovered during the battlefield clearances, he was identified by his tag and re-interred in Ste Emilie Valley Cemetery, just a short distance from where he fell.

Finding John has been an amazing and very exciting journey. We would encourage anyone who has even scant information about a relative to engage in a similar quest.

A.B. Bowen




258539

Pte. Daniel McGlade 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers (d.31st Jul 1916)

Daniel McGlade was a relation of my paternal great-grandmother's husband. I found this information out when I was researching my family tree.

Siobhan McCaffrey




257840

Pte. Andrew Wallace 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers

Andrew Wallace enlisted in Kilkenny Ireland with the 6th Connaught Rangers. He was reported wounded in action in Sept 1917. He then transferred to the Leinster Regiment and was wounded again in October 1918. He was discharged on the 1st of March 1919 in Llanelli, Wales and was awarded a Disability Pension.

F O'Connor




257410

CSM. Charles Flynn 2nd Btn Connaught Rangers

My Great Grandfather Charles Flynn served with the Connaught Rangers from 1885 to 1908 and then signed up again during WWI from the reserves.

My Grandfather also fought during the Great War with 2nd Battalion Connaught Rangers and was eventually a CSM at the end of the war. My Great Grandfather Norman McKay served with the Connaught Rangers and retired in 1912 but resigned during the Great War. and my Uncle Bert James was a Lieutenant Colonel with the British Army and served in the Connaught Rangers during WWI. There are more family members who served, but I do not have the records at present.

Charlie Flynn in 1920

Charles Flynn




256960

Pte. John Joseph Devers C Coy. 1st Btn. Connaught Rangers

My Grandfather James Devers was born in Ballina in 1899. He enlisted in the Connaught Rangers on the 14th of August 1914. James married Mary Canavan in 1904 and he married her again in 1920.

Paula Holmes




255929

Sgt. John Thomas Cox DCM. Connaught Rangers

John Cox was awarded the DCM for actions on The Somme.

John Taylor




253479

Pte John Mason 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers

John Mason was one of seven children in his family from Blackpool in County Cork, Ireland.

He fought in the First World War, only to die in February 1919 from the Spanish Flu





251516

Pte Thomas "Dennis" Shields Connaught Rangers (d.6th April 1917)

Thomas Shields served with the Connaught Rangers I don't know much about Thomas. He was my grand uncle. He is buried in North Gate Cemetery in Baghdad. I don't have any photo.

Joan Sheil




249344

Pte. Foster James Trainor 3rd Battalion, D Company Connaught Rangers

My great uncle, Foster Trainor, an American citizen, born in Plattsburgh, NY and lived in Schenectady, New York, joined the Connaught Rangers in 1914 at 19 years old. He was in the 3rd Battalion, D Company. He signed up in St. Pancras, London and discharged as a Private in Kinsale, Ireland.

Mark Alexander Trainor




248107

Pte. David Jackson 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers (d.21st March 1918)

David Jackson, my great uncle, died 6 six days before his 21st birthday.

David Lovell




247419

William David "Jock" Verth Connaught Rangers

William Verth was a British Home Child, sent to Canada by the Quarrier scheme. He at some point escaped Canada enlisted with the Connaught Rangers. He nearly lost his leg at Messines and was sent to Hanworth to convalescence. We do know that there was a young lady, Daisy Jewell who worked at the hospital and they fell in love and married.

Caroline Webb




245998

Pte. Richard Bytheway 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers (d.22nd August 1915)

Richard Bytheway was born in Crich, but somehow ended up in the Connaught Rangers, an Irish Regiment. He landed at Gallipoli on the 21st of July 1915, and exactly one month later died in the stupid attack on Hill 60. His date of death is put as 21st/22nd of August 1915 as they're not sure.

Andy Smith




243421

Pte. Thomas Fowley 4th (Extra Reserve) Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.18th Oct 1915)

Thomas Fowley of the 4th Connaught Rangers died of illness and is buried in Ballynakilla Cemetery.

David Adams




242761

Pte. J Scott 3rd Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.4th Dec 1918)

Private Scott is buried In the South-East part of the Willmount Cemetery, Killora, Co. Galway, Ireland.

s flynn




242759

L/Sgt. Joseph Jones 3rd Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.10th Oct 1918)

Joseph Jones was the son of Mrs. B. Jones of 11, Upper Quarry Lane, Clarence St., Cork. He was 35 when he died and is buried in the South part of the Whitechurch Cemetery, Whitechurch, Co. Cork, Ireland.

S Flynn




242684

Pte. Stephan Holain 2nd Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.24th June 1915)

Private Holain was 26 when he died and is buried In the South part of the Tuam New Cemetery, Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland.

s flynn




242660

2nd Lt. T. A. McClure Connaught Rangers (d.28th May 1918)

Second Lieutenant McClure was the Son of Mrs. McClure, of 7, Burdett Avenue, Sandycove, Dun Laoghaire.

He is buried About 4 yards West of the East path in the Toberclare Catholic Churchyard, Kilkenny, Co. West Meath, Ireland.

s flynn




242357

Pte. Denis O'Neill 6th (Service) Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.31st Jan 1918)

Denis O'Neill was the son of C. O'Neill, of Gurtharrs, Berehaven. He is buried about six yards east of the Church in the Rossmackowen Catholic Churchyard, Kilconenagh, Co. Cork, Ireland.

SB Flynn




241731

Lt. Cecil Francis Blacker 2nd Btn. Connaught Rangers (d.6th September 1914)

Cecil Blacker was the Son of Major F.H. Blacker. At the start of WW1 he was severely wounded at the Battle of Mons on the 23rd of August 1914 and evacuated to Netley Hospital in England but died from his wounds on the 6th September 1914. The hospital has a military cemetery within the grounds, but Cecil was brought back to Ireland for burial. He was aged 25 when he died and is buried in the South-East part of the Naas (Mauldings, or St. Magdalen's) Protestant Cemetery, Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

s flynn








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