Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 6th Bn

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John Morrissey Regiment: Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 6th Batt Regiment Number: 11898 Rank: Private Death Date: 21 Aug 1915 Death Place; Gallipoli

Birth Place:

Dublin, Ireland

Name: John Morrissey Birth Place: Dublin Death Date: 8 Dec 1915 Death Location: Balkans Enlistment Location: Dublin Rank: Private Regiment: Royal Dublin Fusiliers Battalion: 6th Battalion Number: 11967 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Balkan Theatre

My Grand Uncle John Morrissey joined the militia in 1908 reg. no. 7106 5Bn RDF he was posted 21/1/08 and discharged on the 4/4/08 unlikely to become and efficient soldier. His first cousin with the same name John Morrissey joined the militia in 1901 Reg. no. 3290 3rd Bn RDF birht parish St. James RC after which he joined the regular army RIR reg. no. 6796 birth parish St. Andrews CoI soon after joining John was court marshaled for willfully telling an untruth on is attestation papers, he was given 85 days R.H.L. soon after he was given another 14 days R.H.L. for drunkeness after which he was discharged from the army for misconduct. Both Johns volunteered at the beginning of WW1 as you can see above both were killed in action no service records can be found for either man my problem is how do I match their militia numbers to their army records to find out which John is which? any help would be much appreciated.

Regards

Ed.

[IPT]

If you can find out who Ravrick's friend is...

 

 

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Thanks for your help IPT if I'm right Ricks friend would be a descendent of my Grandmothers' sister, who was the only Morrissey from the two families to go and live in England which proves to me John Morrissey Reg no 11898 is my Grand Uncle

Regards

Ed

[Noor]

Your grand uncle enlisted between 13-17.08.1914.

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Hi Noor, Can't find any records for John Morrissey 11898 were did you get the 13-17 .8.1914 from?

Regards

Ed

[Noor]

I am working constantly with the RDF masterfile project and I add into it as well enlistment dates, what are possible to find. Based on that, I can narrow down period, when the men enlisted, whithout knowing their own enlistment date. Not 100% accurate but works most of the time. As you can see, it is not cover yet all the service numbers/names but hopefully some day.... it is probably project for a liftime

Regards,

Timo

[IPT]

Hi Timo,

11923 William Boyle has service papers. He also enlisted 17/8/1914.

(Not that this narrows down Morrisey's enlistment date, unfortunately).

The 17th was a Monday. I wonder if the recruiters had the weekend off?

[Noor]

Thank you IPT! I add that date in but I do not check the papers yet. I am still working with the medal rolls, KIA lists and starting slowly add in SWB rolls. Service papers and Pension papers I wanted to leave in the end (when at least full WW1 VM/BWM medal roll and transferred out MICs are recorded), for a cross checking and to fill major caps.

Thank you again,

Timo