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A list of survivors from the Island of Ireland who served in World War 1 and who returned home either to Ireland or elsewhere; Department of the Taoiseach: Irish Soldiers in the First World War; Jeffery, Prof. Keith: Ireland and the First World War from "Irish History Live" at Queen's University, Belfast; The Irish Story archive on World War I
Pte. John Condon (5 October 1897 – 24 May 1915) was an Irish soldier born in Waterford. He was mistakenly believed to have been the youngest Allied soldier killed during the First World War, at the age of 14 years; he lied about his age and he claimed to be 18 years old when he signed up to join the army in 1913.
The Royal Munster Fusiliers was a regular infantry regiment of the British Army.One of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, its home depot in Tralee. [1] With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the immediate need for a considerable expansion of the British Army resulted in the formation of the New Army under Lord Kitchener.
The 16th (Irish) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, raised for service during World War I.The division was a voluntary 'Service' formation of Lord Kitchener's New Armies, created in Ireland from the 'National Volunteers', [1] initially in September 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War.
Lord Kitchener, on the right on horseback, reviewing the 10th (Irish) Division at Basingstoke, Hampshire, June 1915.. Formed in Ireland on 21 August 1914, [2] the 10th Division was sent to Gallipoli where, as part of General Sir Frederick Stopford's IX Corps, at Suvla Bay on 7 August it participated in the Landing at Suvla Bay and the August offensive.
C. Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan; William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan; William Caldwell (ranger) Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford; Charles Carney (Jacobite)
Irish World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross (2 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Irish people of World War I" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
The Tyneside Irish Brigade was a British First World War infantry brigade of Kitchener's Army, raised in 1914. Officially numbered the 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade , it contained four Pals battalions from Newcastle upon Tyne , largely made up of men of Irish extraction.
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