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Innes

British Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry




230878

Pte. Andrew Peel Innes MM.

British Army 1/9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry

from:27 Eillison Square, Gateshead

(d.12th Sep 1918)

Andrew Innes served with the 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry




251822

Pte. Andrew Gullane Innes MM.

British Army 3rd Battalion Scottish Rifles

from:Hill-of-Beath

Andrew Innes enlisted at 16 years old giving a false date of birth. He was sent to France on 31st of August 1914 and was wounded in action on 22nd of May 1916. He served with the British Expeditionary Force until 2nd of October 1915. Andrew was posted back to Hamilton and served from 5th June 1916 to 18th April 1917. He was again wounded in action on 18th of August 1918 He was awarded the Military Medal, which was posted in London Gazette on the 11th of February 1919. He was discharged on 15th of September 1919




240703

Mary Ethel Long Innes

British Red Cross

Mary Innes served in with the Red Cross as a nurse at Bisham Abbey Auxiliary Red Cross from December 1914 to May 1915, also at Highfield Hall Hospital, Southampton and from August 1916 at Woodcote Auxiliary Hospital Oxfordshire.




223511

Pte. William Maitland Innes

Australian Imperial Force 2nd Btn.

(d.16th May 1915)

William Innes died on the 16th of May 1915 and is buried in the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt.




1955

Lt.Col. C. H. Innes-Hopkins

British Army 20th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers




226760

2nd Lt. Gilbert S.M. Insall VC MC

Royal Flying Corps

Lt. Insall VC was a prisoner in Strohen POW Camp. He made three bids for freedom, succeeding on 28th April 1917. After the war he received the MC for successfully reaching Holland.




241456

Rflmn. John Insley

British Army 10th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles

from:Linton Road, Castle Gresley

(d.14th August 1917)

I understand that my uncle John Insley joined the 11th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters at Derby, presumably in September 1914. At some point during the war he and many others of the battalion were transferred to the 10th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles. To date I have not discovered when and why this occurred.

I had no idea where he had been killed until I took a party of cubs and scouts to Ypres and the Menin Gate in the 1990s. Whilst there I said to my son that I had a feeling that he was there somewhere. We searched the local regiments Notts & Derby, South Staffs etc, with no luck. The guide informed us that to find out where relatives were buried we could contact the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. This I did to be told that he was on panel 40 of the Menin Gate under the Royal Irish Rifles.




251081

Pte. Charles Instance

British Army 11th (Finsbury Park Rifles) Btn. London Regiment




209696

Sgt. Reginald Roy Inwood VC.

Australian Army 10th Battalion

from:Australia




251759

Dvr. John Ion

British Army 106th Brigade Royal Field Artillery

from:Burnley




221690

Pte. Alfred Ireland

British Army 7th Batallion Gloucestershire Regiment

from:1 Brentry Avenue, Bristol

(d.12th Jan 1917)

Alfred Ireland was born in Bristol on the 5th of August 1890, son of Thomas Martin and Mary Ann (nee Mountain). He died in Mesopotamia (Iraq) and is buried at the Amara Cemetery, which was virtually destroyed during the recent Iraq war.




225884

Pte. Alfred Ireland

British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment

from:Lawrence Hill, Bristol

(d.12th Jan 1917)

Alfred Ireland was born in 5th August 1890 in Easton, Bristol. He was the son of Thomas Martin and Mary Ann (nee Mountain). Alfred worked at the Bristol Wagon Works. He died in Mesopotamia and is remembered in the Amara War Cemetery.




220997

James Ireland

British Army 15th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles

from:Old Lodge Road, Belfast

(d.1st July 1916)




243034

Stok. John Robert Ireland

Royal Navy HMS Tedworth

John Ireland thought he was born in Scarborough but he was actually born in Hull, I have his birth certificate. His family moved to Scarborough when he was 1 year old. His father Robert was a Shoemaker and died in 1899 aged 46 when John Robert was only 9. His death caused hardship, John Robert was separated from his mother and siblings and placed into a Boys Home in Staffordshire (his younger brother Frank into a home in Chester). John remained in Standon Boys Home until he was 16 years old, he was then placed with a Farmer in Derbyshire. In 1911 he was living and working as a railway fitters labourer in Coalville, Leicestershire.

The next we know he had signed up with the Royal Navy on the 18th August 1915. Victory 2 (presume this was training) until January 1916, then Ark..... (cannot make out the rest of the name) 1916 to 1917, then back to the Victory 2. Finally he served on the Hunt Class Minesweeper HMS Tedworth from 18th October 1917 to 7th February 1919 after which he was granted 28 days leave and then demobbed.

He married whilst he was in the Royal Navy on the 4th of January 1919 at St Andrews Church, Deptford, Sunderland. He remained in Sunderland and had 5 sons. After his wife died he spent some time in Carnforth before ending his days and passing away in 1977 Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.




216026

Pte. Thomas William Ireland

British Army 1st/5th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers

from:Jarrow

(d.9th Apr 1916)

Thomas William Ireland who died aged 23 was born in Jarrow in 1892. He was the son of Thomas and Jessie Ellen Ireland (nee Goodman) and the husband of Rose H. Brazier (formerly Ireland nee Davies) of 4 Norman Buildings St. Luke's London. On the 1911 census Thomas William Ireland age 19 Painters Labourer in Shipyard is with his parents Thomas and Jessie Ellen Ireland and family at 45 Grey Street back, Jarrow He Enlisted at Walker.

Thomas is buried in La Laiterie Military Cemetery and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.




218157

Rflmn. G. A. Irish

British Army 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade

(d.3rd Oct 1915)

Rflmn. G. A. Irish served with the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. He was executed for desertion on 3rd October 1915 and is buried in Sailly-sur-la-Lys Canadian Cemetery, Sailly-sur-la-Lys, France.




158426

Pte. Horace Edwin Irons

British Army 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment

from:Kingsthorpe

(d.2nd April 1916)

Horace Irons was my Grandfather and I have been trying to find out how he was killed. I have been unable to find out anything except where his grave is, which I visit occasionally.




225504

Colour Sgt. Benjamin Bichan Irvine

British Army 9th Btn. Royal Scots

from:Edinburgh

Benjamin Irvine, son of William Bichan Irvine and Euphemia Gray Cundill McIntosh, was born 26 October 1893 at 34 Caledonian Crescent, Edinburgh, and was working as a scientific instrument maker in the photographic department of A. H. Baird, 39 Lothian Street, Edinburgh when he enlisted in the 9th Royal Scots (Highlanders) Territorial Force on 14 September 1914.

This battalion was known as “The Dandy Ninthsâ€Â. After training in Scotland he left for active service in France on 23 February 1915. Bennie progressed through the ranks to become a Sergeant. He received a gunshot wound in the head on 27 May 1917 (latter stages of the battle of Arras) resulting in damage to his right eye.

After he spent a few days in the Liverpool Merchant’s Mobile Hospital at Etaples, (No.6 Hospital British Red Cross) he was posted to the 835 Area Employment Company of the Labour Corps, based at Dannes, about 10 kilometers north of Etaples. This was a large ammunition depôt. Bennie was promoted Company Quarter Master Sergeant, later Colour Sergeant, and remained there until 3 February 1919 when he returned to the United Kingdom to be discharged on 6 March 1919 having served a total of 4 years and 174 days.

Ben married Margaret (Meg) Hutcheon Munro, daughter of David Hutcheon Munro and Johanna Grace Mouat of 17 Willowbrae Road, Edinburgh, on 16 September 1927, at the Church of Scotland Manse in Duddingston, Edinburgh. At that time Ben was a photographic dealer and Margaret was a photographer. Margaret’s father, deceased at the time of the marriage in 1927, had been a photographer also, and it is possible that Ben and his wife carried on his business.

Ben was living at 25 Craiglockhart Park, Edinburgh in August 1949 when he registered the death of his mother, and later in 1961 when he registered the death of his brother William. Ben died on 16 January 1968 at 1 Glenlockhart Road, Edinburgh, a rest home/hospital. His occupation was given on his death certificate as “X-ray Assistant (Retired)â€Â.




232698

Pte. C. Irvine

British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers

from:Netherton Colliery

C Irvine was discharged in 1917 wounded




207210

David George "Dave" Irvine

Australian Imperial Force 30th Battalion

from:Balmain, Australia

David G. Irvine embarked to join the REF Alexandria ex Hororata on June 16 1916. He disembarked in Marseilles France one week later on June 23, 1916 and less than one month later on July 20 1916 in France he sustained a major gunshot wound to his left leg and was shipped out on the hospital ship St David to England on July 21, 1916. During recovery he was admitted to the Ontario Military Hospital also known as The Orpington Hospital, in Sevenoaks Road, Orpington Kent, England on July 22, 1916. After Orpington, David was moved to the 2nd Scottish General Hospital on January 20, 1917. He returned to Australia on HMAT Euripides on September 19, 1917 and was discharged from AIF on October 16, 1917 as medically unfit.




238192

Rflmn. Robert Irvine

British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles

Robert Irvine was a rifleman serving in the 11th South Antrim Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. I am looking for any information on him. Thanking you in anticipation.




1055

Pte. S. Irvine

British Army 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

(d.1st Jul 1916)




790

L/Cpl William John Irvine

Army Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Rgt.)




216028

William Irvine

William Irvine is commemorated on the Palmer's War Memorial, Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, England.




217989

L/Cpl. William J. Irvine

British Army 1st Btn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment

(d.20th Apr 1915)

William Irvine served with the King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment 1st Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 20th April1915 aged 19 and is buried in Le Grand Beaumart British Cemetery, Steenwerck, France.




1831

Pte. David Irving

British Army 12th Btn

from:5 Back St, Longtown




204498

Lt Cdr. Ernest Kirkbank Irving DSC, MID.

Royal Navy HMS Bittern

from:Carlisle

I have the medals of Lt Cmdr Irving. He was the Captain of the HMS Bittern, a destroyer. He had an injury a few hours before the Bittern sailed and he went ashore for medical care, his second in command took the ship out and the ship was hit and sank by the SS Kenilworth Castle 12,700 tons. All lives where lost as it was a very heavy sea that night. The Captain was a very lucky man.

He was was an Captain in the Merchant Navy with an Extra Masters Certificate before also getting a commission in the RNR in 1909. He regularly sailed from Liverpool to Sydney on the White Star Line ships Runic and Celtic.




206959

CSM. Ernest Irving

British Army 2nd Battalion Coldsteam Guards

from:London

(d.27th Sep 1918)

My grand-father, Ernest Irving, was killed on 27 Sept 1918 near Cambrai, I presume on the first day of the Battle of the Canal du Nord. >He was a professional soldier and appears to have served at the Front throughout the war. His daughter - my mother - was born only 5 months before his death. I wonder if he ever actually saw her. To compound the family tragedy, Ernest's wife was killed in the Blitz on London in 1942




238225

Sgt. Henry Leopold Irving

British Army West Yorkshire Regiment

from:Bradford







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