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CSM Richard Dale
British Army 20th Btn. A Coy. Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. Richard Wiliam Dale
British Army 9th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Gateshead
The note written on reverse of his photo by Richard Dale reads: "Photo taken while a prisoner of war in Germany (1918). Uniform lent to me by a `1914' prisoner. My own being in too bad a condition, also had a quick shave and a rough haircut by a fellow prisoner. The hair on both head and face being very thick after 9 months neglect, behind the lines in France and Flanders. R. W. Dale 37508 9th K.O.Y.L.I."
Pte. Robert Addison Dale
British Army 7th btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Station Terrace, Aycliffe
Pte. Thomas James Dale
British Army 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment
from:11 Jervis St., Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
(d.20th April 1919)
Thomas Dale was my great uncle, youngest brother to my grandfather Oswald Dale, also of the N Staffords. After receiving a GSW face neck and chest at Loos on 3.10.1915 Thomas recovered in Chatham. After 2 more returns to action he was finally invalided to UK on 6 Aug 1918, first to Chatham, then Brighton, Cambridge East Preston and finally Lord Derby in Nov 1918.
Thomas was a classic case of melancholia, depression, suicidal, paranoia etc, all ultimately related to shell shock. After numerous treatments, he succumbed to vision defects, cranial pressure, delusional attitude, etc there are 14 pages of medical notes. Thomas cut his own throat with razor in a suicide attempt. Although many tests were completed, with differing results, serum blood tests negative then positive, a period of eye vein enlargement occurred, plus other symptoms, including numerous severe fits and he died at 10.40pm on 20th April 1919. Although a case of classic shell shock can be ascertained, it seems that he may have actually been the victim of a brain tumour (meningeal tumour) or meningitis, the quick onset of symptoms suggest the latter. Spanish flu is not suspected.
But I cannot fined where he is buried. His medical records were transferred to Chester some time ago, but Stoke and Warrington cemetery have no record and the CWGC does not commemorate him. I would like to rectify this in respect of his harrowing tale which is typical of so many thousand others.
Pte Tom Cheffings Dales
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:8, Victoria Terrace, Cleethorpes, Lincs
(d.3rd Sep 1917)
Dales, Tom, Cheffings. Private, 45055, Killed in action on 3rd September 1917. Aged 26 years.
Buried in Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, in grave I. F. 4.
Husband of Pattie Dales, of 8, Victoria Terrace, Cleethorpes, Lincs.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. Daniel Daley
Army 5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.5th Aug 1915)
Pte. Edward Daley
British Army 22nd Battalion Manchester Regiment
from:Harpurhey, Manchester
(d.13th May 1917)
Edward Daley was killed in action, age 25. He is commemorated in honour on the Arras memorial in France.
Pte. William Daley
British army 3rd Btn. Coldstream Guards
(d.5th April 1915)
Pte. John Dalgleish
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Scots
from:Edinburgh, Scotland
(d.7th June 1918)
John Dalgleish was a relative who was killed in action in France. traced my ancestry to Edinburgh, Scotland. And was struggling to find John who was killed in action in France. Finally, I found his resting place.
We remember you Private John Dalgleish.
L-Cpl. John Dalkin
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.25th Sep 1918)
John Dalkin served with the 18th and 14th Battalions, he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
VAD. Dalrymple
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 16 Stationary Hospital
Sgt. Albert Dalton MM.
British Army 6th Btn Loyal North Lancashire Regt
from:Preston, Lancashire
Albert Dalton was born in Preston in 1896; he was the son of John and Jane Dalton (nee Shaw). By the time of the 1911 census he was living with his widowed mother and his sister, May, at 24 Higford Street, Preston; his occupation was a cotton weaver.
Albert enlisted on 6th October 1914 into the Loyal North Lancs Regiment in Preston; he gave his occupation as motor driver. His papers say he was 5’ 6” tall, weighed 120lbs and had a 35½” chest; he had a fresh complexion with blue eyes and brown hair.
He was posted into the 11th (Service) Battalion on 21 October 1914. He was appointed paid Lance Corporal on 3rd November 1914 and was promoted to Corporal on 8 January 1915. He was posted to the 6th Battalion on 15th October 1915 and joined the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli. On 7th January 1916 the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser printed his name as having been wounded in action, and he was evacuated to Egypt with the rest of the Battalion later that month. On 13th February 1916 the Battalion began service in Mesopotamia. Albert Dalton was awarded the Military Medal in the London Gazette of 18th October 1917.
On 12th January 1919 he boarded ship at Basra en route for Vladivostok. On 19th March 1919 he disembarked in Vladivostok and joined the British Military Mission in Siberia. He returned to the UK on 19 July 1919 and was finally discharged on 10th December 1919.
Pte. Charles Harry Dalton
British Army 8th Btn Leicestershire Regiment
from:London
My Father, Private Charles Harry Thomas Dalton, service No. 42130 was taken prisoner of war at Cormicy on 27th May 1918 and detained in Langensalza camp. I have his information from the International Red Cross. I would like to know if there is anymore information regarding his Army life, i.e when did he join up and where else did he serve?
Pte. Charles Dalton
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
(d.28th June 1915)
Charles Dalton served with the 1st Battalion Royal Scots in France 1915. He is buried in Ration Farm Military Cemetery.
Pte. Harold Dalton
British Army 12th Btn. (Teesside Pioneers) Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)
from:52 Salisbury St, Middlesbrough, Yorks
(d.22nd Oct 1918)
Pte. Thomas Dalton
British Army 2nd Garrison Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Dungarvan
(d.31st March 1916)
Private Dalton was the Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dalton, of Patrick St., Dungarvan.
He was 50 when he died and is buried in the north west part of the Kilgobnet Catholic Churchyard, Kilgobnet, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Spr. William Shorthall Dalton
Australian Imperial Forces 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy.
(d.5th May 1917)
Cpl. D. Daly
British Army Depot Royal Munster Fusiliers
(d.26th December 1918)
Corporal Daly was 26 when he died and is buried eight yards West of the main path in the Listowel Cemetery, Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
Sgt. Daniel Daly DSC, FMM.
United States Marines
Marine Sergeant Dan Daly entered World War I as one of the United States’ most famous soldiers, having already won the Medal of Honor on two separate occasions for his service during the Boxer Rebellion and the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The 44-year-old continued to write his name into the history books during June 1918’s Battle of Belleau Wood, a month-long offensive that was one of the first major World War I battles fought by U.S. troops. On June 5, Daly bravely extinguished a fire on the verge of igniting a cache of explosive ammunition. Two days later, as his Marines were being shredded by enemy machine gun fire, Daly urged them to leave their cover and counterattack by supposedly screaming the famous words, “Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?!”
Daly’s near-suicidal courage was put on display once again on June 10, when he singlehandedly charged a German machine gun nest, killing its commander and taking 14 prisoners. That same day, he made several trips into “no man’s land” to drag wounded troops to safety. Daley was wounded later that month during a second solo rescue mission, and suffered two more injuries during the Meuse-Argonne offensive in October 1918. While he was again recommended for the Medal of Honor for his actions at Belleau Wood, the military balked at the prospect of any soldier receiving the award three times, and he was instead given the Distinguished Service Cross and the French Medaille Militaire. General Smedley Butler—himself a double Medal of Honor winner—would later describe Daly as, “the fightingest Marine I ever knew.”
Lt. Donald Lynott Daly
The West African Frontier Force 3rd Btn. Nigeria Regiment
from:Dalkey, Co. Dublin
(d.12th April 1915)
Donald Daly was the son of E. D. Daly, of Dalkey, Co. Dublin.
He was 25 when he died and is remembered on a special memorial in the Limbe Botanical Gardens Burial Grounds in the Cameroons.
Pte. Eugene Daly
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Tralee Ireland
Born 1881 in Tralee, Eugene Daly joined the local militia in 1896. In 1902 he joined the Army Service Corps as a regular soldier. In February 1912 he re-enlisted in the 2nd Btn Royal Munster Fusiliers. At the outbreak of WW1, he embarked for France as part of the BEF landing in Le Harve in August 1914. He took part in the Battle of Mons and was wounded in September 1915 receiving a gunshot wound. In March 1916 he was posted to the 6th (Service) Btn. During September 1917 his Btn arrived in Ismail taking part in the Palestine Campaign where at some point he was diagnosed with malaria. He along with his Btn left Palestine arriving back in France in June 1918. In October 1918 he was wounded by a shell burst at Le Cateau, France and taken to an American hospital then on to Dover to recover.
He again re-enlisted in the 2nd Btn in April 1919 and was sent to Egypt arriving in November 1919. On 15 July 1922, he was finally discharged due to a reduction in establishment. In 1923 he was awarded a pension for 30% disablement. In 1925 he appealed the low pension decision by submitting a report detailing the last injury he received in 1918. During 1946 Eugene joined the RMF old comrades association. On 16th Nov 1954 Eugene died at St Michaels hospital Linlithgow, Scotland.
Eugene wrote various letters from the front that were published in both Kerry and Cork newspapers one particular letter was mentioned in the Cork Weekly Examiner on 1st May 1915 entitled 'Two Tralee heroes at La Brassee'. His brother Denis was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, France in May 1915.
Cmdnt. Florence Maria Daly
Voluntary Aid Detachment
from:Folkestone
Florence Daly was the Commandant of Manor House Hospital in Folkestone.
Pte. J. Daly
British Army 1st Garrison Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
from:Waterford
Private Daly was the son of Mrs Bridget Daly, of 18 Lower Newtown, Waterford.
He was 36 when he died on 13th November 1919 and is buried in the north east part of the Faithlegg Catholic Churchyard, Faithlegg, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Pte. James Joseph Daly
British Army 1st Btn. Connaught Rangers
James Joseph Daly served with the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers during WW1. He was executed for mutiny on the 2nd November 1920 age 20 and is on the Kirkee War Cemetery Memorial in India.
The last two soldiers to be executed in 1920 were Irish, one of them was Private James Joseph Daly, aged 20 years. He was shot for his part in the much chronicled mutiny by the 1st Connaught Rangers. Fourteen of those who took part in the mutiny were sentenced to death, the other 13 were reprieved and only Daly was executed.
Pte. James Joseph Daly
British Army 1st Btn. Connaught Rangers
Private Daly was 20 when he died on the 2nd November 1920 and is buried in the Geoghegan Roman Catholic Graveyard, Co. Westmeath, Ireland.
Pte. Jeremiah Daly
British Army 2nd Btn. Leinster Regiment
from:Mountain View, Tipperary Town, Ireland
(d.20th Oct 1914)
My Great Uncle, Jeremiah Daly, from Tipperary Town in Ireland joined the Army in 1898. He served in South Africa for five and a half years then in Mauritius for a further year and a half.When he returned home he was discharged to the Army Reserve. In March 1911 he was married to Mary O'Donnell. They had two children.
On the 5th of August 1914 he rejoined on mobilization. On the 12th of Sept 1914 he landed with the 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment in St Nazaire in France. On the 20th of Oct 1914 he was killed in the village of Premesque.
Pte. John Daly
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow
(d.6th Sep 1916)
John Daly died in the battle to take Guillemont, Somme.
Cpl. John Francis Daly
British Army 10th Btn., A Company Essex Regiment
from:Finchley
(d.20th July 1916)
Pte. John Joseph Daly
British Army 8th Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
from:Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire
(d.23rd Oct 1918 )
John Daly served with the 8th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment in WW1. He died of wounds 23rd of October 1918 aged 19 years and is buried Awoingt British Cemetery in France. Son of John and Mary Daly of 3 Shaw St., Seacombe, Cheshire.
L/Cpl. Michael Daly
British Army 3rd Btn. Irish Guards
Lance Corporal Daly died on the 2nd February 1919 and is buried in the south-east part of the Caherciveen (Killavarnogue) Cemetery in Co. Kerry, Ireland. His sister lived in Caherciveen.
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