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RE 16th (Irish)Divisional Signals Company If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about the Royal Engineers? There are:8767 items tagged Royal Engineers 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 RE 16th (Irish)Divisional Signals Company during the Great War 1914-1918. Thornton Richard Patrick. L/Cpl. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of RE 16th (Irish)Divisional Signals Company from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Looking for help with Family History Research?    Please see Family History FAQ's Please note: We are unable to provide individual research. Can you help? The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Announcements 13 4th May 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264114 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 246590 L/Cpl. Richard Patrick Thornton 16th Signal Company Royal Engineers My grandfather Richard Thornton was born on 20th Aug. 1884. He died in Coalisland, Co. Tyrone in 1966. He married Rachael C. Walsh in 1907 and they had 7 children. My mother was Evelyn born in 1912 and after the war he had 3 more children. He was a Post Office clerk before the war. I have a large photograph of his battalion, taken in November 1915 at Blackdown, Dorset, England. The caption reads "Officers & N.C.O's 16th Signal Coy. Royal Engineers. Blackdown. November 1915." I presume this is where he was sent to after enlisting. He was wounded in the back but survived to return to his wife and children. During his time in Belgium, my grandfather sent great postcards to his children. They had moved to Belfast to be near an aunt. Then years later my grandfather talked about going to live in Belgium, but he would not have received his pension there. But his daughter Bernadette married a 2nd World War Belgian soldier in 1947 and he got his wish and visited Belgium on several occasions. That branch of the family still live in Belgium, near Liege. There are 46 men in the photograph, would any of the readers of this site have a relative in the photograph? My grandfather lived until he was 82 years of age and from this marriage have grown the lives of 16 grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren and 26 great great grandchildren. Bernie Lowry Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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