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5th service bn (poineers) royal irish regiment


scall38

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Hello Scall38,

This via TTL:

5th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)

Formed at Clonmel in August 1914 as part of K1 and attached to 29th Brigade, 10th (Irish) Division.

About June 1915, converted to Pioneer Bn of the same Division.

7 July 1915: embarked at Liverpool and sailed to Gallipoli via Mudros. Landed Suvla Bay 7 August 1915.

30 September 1915 : moved via Mudros to Salonika.

1 April 1918 : transferred to 52nd (Lowland) Division. Moved soon afterwards with Division to France.

31 May 1918 : transferred to Lines of Communication.

14 July 1918 : transferred to 50th (Northumbrian) Division as Pioneer Bn.

Also, you will find more info HERE. This is a link to the National Archives website, where you can order printed or digital copies of unit war diaries. It looks as though the following are available:

July to Sept 1915

Oct 1915 to Aug 1917

Sept 1917 to Mar 1918

Apr 1918 to Feb 1919.

Hope this is of help.

Cheers,

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  • 9 years later...

Hello Larry.

 The following are the lads from the 5th Battalion who died in the war from the 26 counties.

Barry    ,     Cecil
Bolger    ,     George
Bone    ,     Reginald I
Burns    ,     Garret
Callaghan    ,     William
Carey    ,     Patrick
Cavanagh    ,     Joseph
Clarke    ,     Michael
Coady    ,     Richard
Cooney    ,     Patrick
Daly    ,     John
Devonshire    ,     John
Dooley    ,     John
Ennis    ,     Patrick
Fitzgerald    ,     John
Flynn    ,     William
Fogarty    ,     James
Ford    ,     James William
Goddard    ,     George
Griffith    ,     George
Hayes    ,     Daniel
Hogan    ,     Joseph
Keane    ,     Timothy
Kearns    ,     Thomas
Kelly    ,     Michael
Kelly    ,     Thomas
Mahoney    ,     Edward
Martyn    ,     Christopher
McCabe    ,     Henry
McCormack/McCormick    ,     Edward
McDonagh    ,     James
McDonald    ,     Thomas
McGrath    ,     Martin Patrick
McGrath    ,     Michael
McHale    ,     Thomas
Moore    ,     James
Mulrain    ,     Peter
Murphy    ,     Henry Arthur  
Nagle    ,     William
O’Brien    ,     Thomas
O’Brien    ,     Timothy  
O’Donnell    ,     James
O’Keefe    ,     John
O’Keeffe    ,     James
O’Neill    ,     Michael
Percy    ,     Samuel
Power    ,     Michael
Quinlan    ,     John
Roche    ,     John
Ryan    ,     Andrew
Sheehan    ,     James
Sheehan    ,     John
Stannett    ,     Thomas
Sullivan    ,     Peter
Tobin    ,     Michael
Troy    ,     Martin
Walsh    ,     Thomas
Walsh    ,     Thomas
O’Connor    ,     Timothy
Costello    ,     Gabriel Patrick
Duggan    ,     John Rowswell
 

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George Goddard named above was an alias. His true name was George Godwin of Clonsilla Dublin. No idea why he used an alias. He was the son of an English soldier of the same named, who married a local woman and settled in Clonsilla. Father and sons worked as grooms in Clonsilla house & Luttrelstown castle. George had three (possibly four) brothers serve in GW, he was the only one to die. He is buried in Mudros Island. 

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