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[31] [32] [33] Opposition to the war in Ireland may have therefore been influenced by perceived discrimination by British High Command against Irish soldiers, although within the Irish units death sentences were meted out in roughly equal proportions against Catholic and Protestant servicemen. On average one British soldier out of every 3,000 ...
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 last major conflict in the 26 counties involving the British Army was the Irish War of Independence. There are graves of soldiers killed between 1919 and 1921. [18] There are also the graves of 12 British military personnel (one of whom is an unidentified airman) who died in World War II. [19] The last burial took place in 1999. [20]
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.
The main memorials to the Irish war dead, one in France and one in Belgium, are the Ulster Tower and the Island of Ireland Peace Park, unveiled in 1921 and 1998 respectively. Delville Wood Memorial (South Africa) Vimy Memorial (Canada) Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australia) Neuve-Chapelle Memorial (India) Beaumont-Hamel Memorial (Newfoundland)
Heroic Option: The Irish in the British Army. Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 1-84415-152-2. Bunbury, Turtle (2014). The Glorious Madness, Tales of The Irish and The Great War. Gill & Macmillan, Dublin. ISBN 978-0717 16234 5. Burke, Tom (2007). The 16th (Irish) and the 36th (Ulster) Divisions at the Battle of Wytschats-Messines Ridge, 7 June 1917. The ...
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.
A platoon of the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, pictured upon the outbreak of the First World War, 1914. Lieutenant Harold Alexander is seated seventh from the right.. The 1st Battalion, Irish Guards deployed to France, eight days after the United Kingdom had declared war upon the German Empire, as part of 4th (Guards) Brigade of the 2nd Division, and would remain on the Western Front for the ...