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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 ...
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 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 Lieutenant 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.
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 ...
By the time the 1916 rising took place, the Irish Brigade was defunct. [citation needed] A detailed account of Casement's Irish Brigade in Germany was written by Michael Keogh, recruiting officer and Sergeant Major in the Irish Brigade in Germany and Casement's adjutant. The book was officially launched on 15 July 2010.
Pages in category "Irish soldiers" The following 164 pages are in this category, out of 164 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Dudley Bagenal;
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.