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Pte. John T. Meegan
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blackhill
Sgt. C. Meehan
British Army 3rd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Cork
(d.20th December 1918)
Serjeant (Drummer) Meehan was the Husband of Julia Lawlor (formerly Meehan), of 29, St. Finbarr's Place, Cork.
He was 36 when he died and is buried near the north boundary of the Kilkenny (St. Maul's) Graveyard, Kilkenny, Ireland.
Pte. James Samuel Meehan
British Army 13th (Pioneer) Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
Pte. John Meehan
British Army 27th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Westerhope
(d.27th April 1917)
John Meehan was my great uncle, the only son of Patrick and Eliza Meehan (nee Stanley) of Stanley Cottages, Westerhope. He was my grandmother's brother and before his war experience he was a miner at North Walbottle Colliery.
He was reported missing on 17th April 1917 and discharged dead (killed in action) on 27th April. I believe he is commemorated on the Memorial of the missing in the cemetery at Fauborg D'Amiens, so presume he was killed during the Arras offensive, but can't find any information on him, or any photographs.
Pte. John Meehan
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Sunderland
John Meehan was wounded in November 1916
Pte. Pat. Meehan
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:West Stanley
Pat Meehan was wounded in October 1916
Spr. William Walter Meehan
Australian Imperial Forces 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy.
from:Inkerman, Nth Queensland
Cpl. William Meehan
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:St. Johnstown, Killenaule
(d.16th Dec 1916)
William Meehan served with the 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment.
L/Cpl. William Meehan
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Killenaule
(d.16th Dec 1916)
My grandfather William Meehan, was serving in the 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment when he was killed in December 1916. In October 1916, the battalion was moved from the Somme area in France to positions south west of Ypres. Their camp was on the Kemmel-Poperinge road near La Clytte. They remained in that area until mid March 1917. According to the official history, they were in "brigade reserve" and "the routine was four days in front line trenches, four days in support line and eight days in reserve". My grandfather was 1 of 3 officers and 14 men killed during the period October 1916 to March 1917.
According to another historical document I have on the RIR war dead, my grandfather was killed in action on 16th of December 1916. He enlisted in Clonmel but I don't know when. He is buried in Pond Farm Cemetery which makes sense given the location of the 6th Battalion in December 1916. I've not yet had any luck in locating the official war diaries of the 6th Battalion for December 1916. If and when I do, I think there's a good chance of finding out how he died.
Cpl. Francis Reginald Meek
British Army. 171st Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers
from:Blackwood, Wales
(d.17th Jun 1917)
Francis Meek is my gg Uncle, son of Beriah and Tryphena Meek originaly from Dyrbrook in the Forest of Dean where they all worked as miners. He is brother to my Great Grandfather Charles Henry James Meek who is remembered at the Ploegsteert Memorial. We visited them both to pay our respects 13/02/13.
Pte. Henry Meek
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Marley Hill
Henry Meek was discharged in 1919
3rdEngr. James Meek
Mercantile Marine SS Kwasind
(d.11th Mar 1917)
James Meek, 3rd Engineering Officer was serving on board the SS Kwasind and died age 25 when the vessel was sunk on the 11th March 1917. He is remembered at Jarrow Library and the Tower Hill Memorial. James was born in Jarrow in 1891, son of William and Joan Meek nee Halliday of 28 Thornton Avenue, South Shields.
Pte. Percy Albert Meek
British Army 1st Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Snettisham, Norfolk
Percy Meek was treated for shell-shock by Dr. Arthur Hurst at Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley and then Seale-Hayne Military Hospital, Newton Abbot, Devon. There is a Pathe News film online. Percy is confined to a wheel chair, mute and paralyzed. Eventually Dr Hurst was able to get through and Percy gave basket making lessons to his fellow patients. Percy eventually went home, continued the basket making business and died in 1968. Sometimes the stories of those who survived is more profound than that of those who died.
Robert Edward Meek
Army Durham Light Infantry
I am trying to trace my family tree. I was informed by my father that his father, Robert Edward Meek was in the DLI in the Great War. I have tried to find out to no luck. can anyone help me? I have no other information about him not even his service number. It seems a complete mystery. I believe he was born in Middlesbrough and lived in the South moor, Stanley area.
William Robert Meek
British Army Durham Light Infantry
from:Newburn, Northumberland
William Robert Meek was born in 1896. He went to war and it took him 3 tries to get in, twice his Dad went and got him out, the 3rd time his Dad said let him go. He became a prisoner of war, and he had been wounded. When I asked where he had been wounded his reply was, in the bottom. I asked, how was he wounded in that area, his reply was, like all the others I were running away.
Pte. John Meeke
British Army Irish Brigade
from:Derrykeighan
At the Battle of Messines in June 1917, John Meeke was a stretcher bearer with the Irish Brigade was on the left of the Ulster Division. During the attack the intensity of the British shelling meant that it was impossible to see more than a few yards. In the confusion, Private Meeke saw that Major Willie Redmond of the Irish Brigade was wounded. Willie Redmond was a politician with strong Irish Republican views, Meeke was a member of the original Ulster Volunteer Force, at home in Ireland this would probably have left them less than friends. However, on the battlefield loyalties were different. Using the shell craters as shelter, John Meeke ran across the battlefield towards the injured officer. As he treated Major Redmond, Private Meeke was also wounded by shrapnel, but he carried on, making sure the Major was taken back to the dressing station. Disobeying orders, Meeke then continued tending to the other wounded until he was forced to stop and go to the dressing station himself. Major Redmond died of his wounds, but John Meeke survived the war, although he died quite young in December 1923, aged 28.
Pte. Samuel Meeke
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Dervock
(d.19th Jan 1919)
Samuel Meeke was captured on the 21st of March 1918 and sent to the Langensalza pow camp where he was forced to work in the sulphur mines. On his release after the Armistice, his health was so affected that he died a fortnight after arriving home. He is buried in Derrykeighan Old Graveyard. Samuel also had a brother, John, who was awarded the Military Medal.
Pte. Arthur Porcher Meen
British Army 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Long Stratton
(d.20th September 1917)
Arthur Meen enlisted on the 2nd of July 1917 aged 29,he was previously a cattle lad on a farm. He was killed in action in Flanders, just 2 months after enlisting. He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial and Long Stratton War Memorial.
Lt. Mathew Charles Meere
British Army 17th Btn. London Regiment
from:London
Pte. Hugh Macdonald Mees
British Army 18th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
from:Maryhill, Glasgow
(d.2nd March 1916)
Hugh Mees was born in 1898 and died a week short of his 18th birthday. He worked as a bottler with Teacher's Whisky in Glasgow. He is buried in St Vaast Cemetery in Richebourg-L'Avoue
Pte. Bernard Meeson
British Army 7th Service Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Cannock, Staffordshire
(d.9th Dec 1917)
Bernard was born in Penkridge, Staffordshire. While he was known as Bernard Meeson, he was registered as Bernard Lowe. After his mother married Richard Wincer he was sometimes known as Bernard Wincer.
When war broke out in Europe he was living in Cannock. He signed up at Hednesford Drill Hall in 1914. He had 2 daughters Doris and Eliza with Isabella Mary Gripton whom he married in 1911. Eliza was killed while carrying milk back from the shop across the road. She stepped out in front of a bus and was dragged into the wheels and died instantly aged 7. His wife Isabella later married a local widow John W Amos.
Doris, my nan, had only vague memories of him going away. She died recently and with the exception of this photo I found two years ago, on a grainy fiche copy of the Cannock Advertiser, she had no pictures of her father Bernard.
Pte. Robert Meff
British Army 4th Btn. Gordon Highlanders
from:Aberdeen
(d.26th September 1915)
Sjt. Thomas Megennis
British Army 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.23rd May 1916)
Thomas Megennis served with the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry. He was aged 24 when he died on 23rd May 1916. He was born in Jarrow in 1891. He enlisted in Jarrow. He was the son of Elizabeth Gray (formerly Megennis nee Newby) of 17 North Street Jarrow and the late Charles Megennis.
Thomas is buried in Essex Farm Cemetery and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow as T. McGuiness.
Dvr. E. D. Mehegan
Australian Imperial Force. 3rd Salvage Coy.
Pte. Frederick Mehew
Royal Irish Fusiliers
(d.13th July 1918)
Able Sea. Jeremiah Mehigan
Royal Navy HMS Magic
from:Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork
(d.30th April 1918)
Able Seaman Mehigan was the eldest son of Catherine and Jeremiah Mehigan, of Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork.
He was 30 when he died and is buried about 2 yards from the South-East corner of the ruins in the Killygarven Catholic Graveyard, Killygarven, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
Sgt. Ernest Meigh MiD.
British Army 2nd West Lancashire Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Liverpool
Ernest Meigh was Mentioned in Dispatched on the 31st of May 1915.
Pte. Gilbert Eliot "Gib" Meikle
British Army 5th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
(d.12th July 1915)
Sgt. John Meikle VC MM.
British Army 4th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
(d.20th Jul 1918)
John Meikle was killed in action on 20th July 1918 aged 19 and is buried in the Marfaux (New Zealand) Memorial in France.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated 13th Sept., 1918, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and initiative when his company, having been held up by machine-gun fire, he rushed single-handed a machine-gun nest. He emptied his revolver into the crews of the two guns and put the remainder out of action with a heavy stick. Then, standing up, he waved his comrades on. Very shortly afterward another hostile machine-gun checked progress, and threatened also the success of the company on the right. Most of his platoon having become casualties, Serjt. Meikle seized the rifle and bayonet of a fallen comrade, and again rushed forward against the gun crew, but was killed almost on the gun position. His bravery allowed two other men who followed him to put this gun out of action. This gallant non-commissioned officer's valour, devotion to duty, and utter disregard for his personal safety was an inspiring example to all."
Pte. John Meiklejohn
British Army 1/4 Battalion, B Company, No7 Platoon Royal Scots Fusiliers ÃÆ??Ã?Ã?Â
from:Darval, Ayeshire
John Meiklejohn, 1/4 Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, was my grandfather. He was wounded at Gallipoli and again in Palistine and survied the War and went on to be a police officer. Does anyone recognise any of their family on this picture if so who are they and what happend to them?
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