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Cpl. Joseph Davidson McCann
British Army 5th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Garngad Rd Glasgow
(d.30th Nov 1917)
Joseph Davidson McCann was my mother's uncle. I knew nothing of his story until shortly before my mothers death 4 yrs ago. All I know about him is he served with the 1st and 5th battalions of the Highland Light Infantry, he is buried in Ramleh cemetery.
Pte. Joseph McCann
British Army 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards
from:Jarrow
(d.20th Sep 1914)
Joseph McCann served with the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, he was aged 26 when he died on 20th September 1914. Born in Jarrow he was the son of Matthew and Sarah Ann McCann. On the 1911 census he is recorded as Joseph McCann age 23 Soldier on leave from 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards staying with his older brother James Henry McCann and family at 5 Gladstone Street, Hebburn. He had enlisted in South Shields.
Joseph is buried in Vailly British Cemetery and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow.
Pte. Patrick McCann
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:1 Lotts Cottages, Kilternan, Dublin
My great-grandfather, Patrick McCann, had been in the Royal Field Artillery until 1909. He was a labourer by trade and joined up for service in WW1 as a member of Kitchener's New Army. He was deployed to France in December 1915. He was injured by machine-gun fire in both an arm and a leg and was discharged as unfit for further service in early 1919.
He suffered from shell-shock and would roam the house at night with a cudgel waiting for the Germans. His 12 year old son John had to commit him to Grangegorman Asylum in Dublin in 1922 after he attacked his wife and nearly killed her. He died in November 1922.
L/Sgt. Reginald Francis McCann MiD.
British Army 2nd Battalion Cameron Highlanders
from:Australia
Reginald McCann enlisted in 1908 and served with the 2nd Battalion Cameron Highlanders in India and China 1909-1914 and was in India when World War One broke out, stationed at Poona, India. The Battalion, embarked for England from Bombay on the 16th of October 1914 arriving at Devonport, Plymouth and then moved to Winchester joining the 81st Brigade of the 27th Division. On the 20th of December 1914 they landed at Havre and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including The action of St Eloi during The Second Battle of Ypres. On the 29th of November 1915 they embarked for Salonika from Marseilles and engaged in various actions against the Bulgarian Army including The capture of Karajakois, The capture of Yenikoi, The Battle of Tumbitza Farm, The capture of Homondos, The capture of the Roche Noir Salient, The passage of the Vardar river and The pursuit to the Strumica valley. They ended the war at Izlis N.W. of Doiran, Macedonia.
In 1919 Regimald enrolled in Nottingham into a unit formed to clean up the Western Front and moved to Australia in 1921.
Pte. Thomas Edward McCann
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Spr. Vincent Myles McCann
British Army 75th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:27 Bedeque Street, Belfast
Vincent McCann joined the British Army on 19th of September 1914. He was a fitter by trade, working in the Harland and Wolff shipyard from about 1910 to 1914 as an apprentice (during the time the Titanic was being built). His position in the company was as an Iron Turner or lathe operator.
He was initially posted to the 122nd Field Company and sent to train at Clandeboye Camp in Co. Down, Ireland, but friction between the Catholics and Protestants resulted in his being transferred to the 75th Field Company which was training at Moore Park, Kilworth in Co. Cork, Ireland. His company was mobilized in July 1915 and they arrived in France in September, where they were attached to the 1st Guards Brigade, which was forming in the Lumbres region in Northern France. They took part in the Battle of Loos, and later in Ypres and the latter part of the Battle of the Somme, among many other battles. He was demobilized in 1919.
Pte. William McCann
British Army 2nd Btn. B Company. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Chance Inn, Perthshire, Scotland
(d.17th Oct 1914)
William McCann was my grandfather. He was killed in St. Joseph's Café in Houplines, France. He entered the café and found 6 German soldiers he killed all 6 but was fatally wounded and died aprox 1 hour after the Germans.
The lady who owned the café buried the Germans on one side of the garden and my grandfather on the other side. After the war British. His remains were moved to a convent at Armitiers and interred there until 1960 when his remains were moved to the Strand Military Cemetery in Ploegsteert, Belgium.
He lived at Chance Inn by Glencarse, Perthshire, Scotland. He was born in Balbriggan, Dublin in 1881 and went to Scotland to find work. He met my grandmother and they were married on November 4th 1910. A son, William, was born in 1911 and died in 1912. My father, David McCann, was born in 1912 and died in 1968. My Aunt Jean was born in 1915.
He is documented as being the hero of Houplines. There is a ceremony of somesort happening on the 17th of October but I can't get the Mayor of Houplines to give me any information about it. I have tried three times but to no avail. We have all the documents containing the information.
Pte William McCann
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
Pte. Edward McCardle
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Consett
Pte. Christopher William McCarfrae
British Army 13th Battalion Kings Regiment (Liverpool)
from:75 Salisbury Road, Everton, Liverpool
Christopher McCarfrae served with 13th Battalion, Kings Liverpool Regiment.
L/Sgt. David Stewart McCarren
British Army 15th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
My grandfather, David Stewart McCarren, joined the 15th Battalion HLI when it was formed in 1914, mostly of volunteers from the the Glasgow Tramways. He was a tram driver, and before that a journeyman plumber, before he volunteered.
He was injured twice during World War 1. In 1916, from which he must have recovered, as he was injured again in 1917, and this time lost his right leg. I believe this happened at the 2nd Battle of Arras, where the 15th HLI were fighting. He was invalided out, and subsequently later named the bungalow where he lived, Arras. This was where I also lived with my parents when I was a child. That is as much as I know. My grandfather never spoke of the war, as many others never did.
Rflmn. James McCarroll
British Army Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
(d.24th March 1918)
James McCarroll is Remembered with Honour on the Pozieres Memorial.
Dvr. James McCarron
British Army 285th Brigade, A Bty. Royal Artillery
from:Liverpool
(d.25th Aug 1917)
James McCarron was the Grandfather I never met, he was the father of my mother who never met him either. He went to war when his wife was pregnant with my mother. He died before my mother was born. I pay for a cross to be placed every year in the Remembrance Garden, so that he will never be forgotten whilst I, or my sons are alive.
Capt. William Harold Raphael McCarter
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
William Harold Raphael McCarter was my paternal grandfather. He served during the Great War as a doctor. He was captured during the Spring offensive at Epehy in March 1918 and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. The main POW camps where he was held were Rastatt, Karlsruhe and eventually Graudenz in Poland. I have transcribed his diary which is now very fragile, and I also have a book of cartoons painted by one of the officers in his battalion before their capture. I am putting everything together in a book and am still searching for relevant pictures of the POW camps and my grandfather.
Cpl. Albert Cornelius "Mac" McCarthy
British Army 8th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:London
Albert McCarthy joined up on 24th of August 1914. He was wounded at the Somme, being blown up by a shell or mine; although not physically injured, could not speak for some time. He was discharged on the 22nd of August 1916. Relieved he was recuperating in a stately home used as a hospital, the home was owned my Marcus Samuel, owner of M Samuel Merchant Bank. Albert was employed by the bank and rose to be company secretary, before he retired in 1956. He died at the age of 92 in May 1985.
AM3. Bartholomew McCarthy
Royal Air Force Airship Training Wing
(d.21st November 1918)
Air Mechanic 3rd Class Bartholomew McCarthy of the Airship Training Wing at Cranwell is commemorated on a panel at Grangegorman Memorial Dublin and is buried East of the ruins in the Ring (Ballintemple) Graveyard, Templeomalus, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Cpl. Daniel McCarthy MM
British Army attd. Y Bty. 21st Trench Mortar Bty Royal Garrison Artillery
(d.26th June 1916)
Daniel McCarthy died 26th June 1916 aged 45 and is buried in the Norfolk Cemetery in France.
Pte. Edward Maurice McCarthy
British Army 1st Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:131 Springbank Rd, Hithergreen, London
Edward McCarthy, was born on 29 September 1899. He enlisted on the 22nd of March 1917 aged 17 years and 6 months. His service with the Middlesex regiment reckoned from the 30th of October 1917 when he had turned 18.
On the 18th of December 1917 he was in a Training Reserve Battalion. Then on the 1st of March 1918 he transferred to 52nd Graduated Training Battalion, on the 21st of April 1918 he was posted from the 21st Battalion to the 1st Battalion.
Records show that on the 7th of May 1918 he was treated by the 99th Field Ambulance with a medical condition, he then rejoined his Battalion. He was wounded on the 30th of September 1918, rejoining his unit on the 26th of October 1918. On the 9th of November 1918 he was again wounded, shrapnel left arm. He returned to England on the 22nd of November 1918 on the SS Panama and was sent to the 4th London General Hospital. On the 15th of April 1919 he was Discharged from Service. Total days in service 755.
Gnr. Eugene Daniel "Mac" McCarthy
British Army 211th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Mile End, London
Eugene McCarthy served with 211th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Jack McCarthy
British Army Army Service Corps
Jack McCarthy served with Army Service Corps
Gnr. James McCarthy
British Army 173rd Brigade, B Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.6th September 1918)
James McCarthy was a native of Glasgow. He was the son of Mrs Annie McGregor McCarthy, 150 Mathieson Street, South Side, Glasgow. James was aged 34 when he died. He is buried in Neiuwkerke (Nueve Eglise) Churchyard, Grave Z.3.
Pte. Jeremiah James McCarthy
British Army 2/28th (Artists Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
(d.20th December 1918)
Jeremiah McCarthy died at Coombe Lodge War Hospital of influenza and pneumonia following appendicitis. Aged 18.
John McCarthy
British Army Highland Light Infantry
My Granddad was John McCarthy, I have a copy of a letter to the War Pensioners' Welfare Services in Dublin, where he was living. It says that he served in the Highland Light Infantry and was discharged 21st March 1919. it seems he was in the Munster Fusiliers before the HLI. I know he received medals for Mons, Somme & Arras and was wounded twice.
CSM John McCarthy
British Army 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.
Pte. Justin McCarthy
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Tralee, Co. Kerry Ireland
Justin McCarthy served with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. All I know of my grandfather's service record was that he joined up in 1914 from the Tralee Barracks in Kerry. He fist saw action in Mons after arriving in France in September 1914. He saw action throughout the war. He was buried alive for 3 days, reported missing presumed killed in action. He suffered gas attack injuries but returned home after the war and married and had 4 children. He died of throat cancer in 1961.
Pte. Laurence McCarthy
British Army 49th Btn. Machine Gun Corps
from:Step lane, Cork, Ireland
(d.16th Oct 1918)
Laurence McCarthy died in hospital in France from wounds received in battle on the 16th October 1918. His brother died from illness in a German prisoner of war camp on the 25 of August 1918.
Pte. Laurence Mccarthy
British Army 49th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Cork City
(d.16th October 1918)
L.Sto. P. McCarthy
Royal Navy HMS Bellerophon
Leading Stoker P McCarthy died on the 19th January 1919 and is buried in the east part of the Ballymacoda (the Hill) Old Graveyard, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Spr. Patrick McCarthy
British Army 263rd Railway Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Glasgow
Patrick McCarthy was my great-great-uncle. He was born and reared in Limerick, Ireland, and worked for 3 years in Guinness, Dublin before emigrating to Glasgow in 1914. He joined the Kings Own Scottish Borderers in 1916 and deployed to France in 1917 with the Royal Engineers.
Pte. Richard McCarthy
British Army 15th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Manchester
(d.1st July 1916)
Richard McCarthy enlisted with his pals and before the war he worked at Manchester Victoria Train Station, in which he is commerated on the Great War plaque there. We know he lost his life serving King and Country on the 1st July 1916. His final resting place is at Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval, Somme, France.
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