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Wicklow. Born Shillelagh, 1887.add to IFCP
Hope-June 10, from wounds received in action, Ludlow William Eyre, son of the late John and Madeline Eyre Hope, Kilpoole, Wicklow.

Think this is W J Hope, ASC

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/34515/HOPE,%20W%20J

The transcribers in the 1901 census gave up with his names...

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Wicklow/Wicklow_Rural/Kilpoole_Lower/1817099/

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Thanks Johnnie. I would not have found him without your help.

Thanks again.

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wasn't totally convinced about the Ludlow Hope ...

He has an entry in IMR, same page as Ludlow Hope, side by side.

MIC, SDGW and IMR have him as Died rather than Died of Wounds.

SDGW has born and resident Dublin but there is nothing in the 1901 or 1911 census for a William Hope

1911 census has a William born Co Carlow. A Chauffeur

However, service record exists. He died from Cerebral Spinal Meningitis. A letter refers to his family knowing him as Ludlow Hope.He married an RC girl against their wishes.

Name: William Joseph Hope Birth Place: Dublin Residence: Dublin Death Date: 10 Jun 1917 Death Location: France & Flanders Enlistment Location: Dublin Rank: Private Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps Number: M2/130931 Type of Casualty: Died Theatre of War:

Western European Theatre

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Moore-June 27(1917), at Whitworth Hospital, from wounds received in action, Bernard, Machine Gun Corps, son of the late Joseph Moore, North Brunswick Street.

This chap I think

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/899707/MOORE,%20B%20D

SDGW has him as Bernard

Name: Bernard D Moore Regiment or Corps: Machine Gun Corps, Royal Dublin Fusiliers Regimental Number: 7129, 20477

An entry on Findagrave tallies

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54805518

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Thanks Johnnie, The records clinches it altogether. You are a wonder to behold, well done and thank you most kindly.

Kind regards.

Tom.

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Milliken-July 13-1917, Bachill Military Hospital, Glasgow, from consumption, contracted on active service, Thomas, late R.F.A., son of the late Thomas and Sarah Milliken, of Dublin.

Bombardier 93576 Thomas Milliken. Enlisted Glasgow 30th Aug 1914; discharged 30th May 1916 - Consumption contracted on active service. Gives an address Bride St, Iveagh Buildings, Dublin for a relative. Note to say that this pensioner died 13th July 1917

Think this is him/family in the census records

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Wood_Quay__part_of_/Bride_Street__New__Iveagh_Trust_Buildings_/77052/

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Pembroke_West/Gerald_Street__South_Lots_/1287544/

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Another cracker, well done Sherlock Doyle.

Where did you find this please? his MIC?

Bombardier 93576 Thomas Milliken. 'Enlisted Glasgow 30th Aug 1914; discharged 30th May 1916 - Consumption contracted on active service. Gives an address Bride St, Iveagh Buildings, Dublin for a relative. Note to say that this pensioner died 13th July 1917'

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the info is from his pension file on Ancestry

Name: Thomas Milliken Estimated Birth Year: abt 1893 Age at Enlistment: 21 Birth Parish: Dullster Birth County: Dullster Document Year: 1914 Regimental Number: 93576 Regiment Name: Royal Highlanders and Royal Field Artillery Number of images: 8
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Ryan-April 24 (1917), drowned at sea, Dr Thomas Ryan, Colonial Medical Service, son of the late Dr J A Ryan, Carlingford House, Glasnevin.

Think this one is going to be harder. Following the father who I believe to be Joseph Aloysius Ryan (based on a quick look in the medical registers)

This 1902 marriage entry for William Arthur Ryan gives the father as Joseph Aloysius Ryan with an address as Carlingford House, Glasnevin. (Use the option to view the original church register). A Thomas Ryan is listed as a witness. The bride is the sister of Oliver St John Gogarty; the father Henry Gogarty is a physician.

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/7b4f7a0062303

The daughter of these 2 was film actress Maureen Roden-Ryan.

A William Arthur Ryan and a Thomas Ryan are in the medical registers with the West African Medical Service; both graduates of Dublin.

1901 census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Glasnevin/Glasnevin/1273095/

Possibly Thomas Ryan on the TCD Memorial?

http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/html/showPicture.php?pictureID=1164

I was hoping a family tree might provide more info but so far proving elusive

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Thanks for keeping on it, you are doing great. A lot better than I could have done.

Thank you.

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Will have to come back to Dr Ryan I think.

Offaly.
Perry-June 2/1917, killed in action, John perry, Private, Canadian Infantry, late Edmonton, Alberta, son of late John Perry, Birr.
The Irish Times, June 9, 1925. Roll of Honour.(1914-1918). In Memoriam.

Perry-In ever loving memory of our beloved brother Jack. Killed in France, June 8, 1917.

John Perry is a little easier to trace I think :

CWGC gives Birr as place of birth and Edmonton as address

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1572990/PERRY,%20JOHN

Attestation paper front and back, gives Birr as place of birth and Edmonton as address

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=569414&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=h6vaaa98k3b7b36gujpt9rk8i7

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Coyle-August 21/1917, as a result of gas poisoning received in action, at Nicholstown, Athy, Alfred Ernest, youngst son of the late John Coyle, aged 22 years, late Irish Horse.

Looks like buried in Nicholastown Cemetery though the date of death is at variance with the above and the IMR data.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/662990/COYLE,%20A

MIC indicates discharged 16/4/1917. SWB shows enlisted 9/5/1912; discharged as a result of sickness. Don't see a pension or service record.

1901 census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Kildare/Grangemellon/Ballycullane/1433721/

1911 census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Kildare/Grangemellon/Nicholastown/536536/

Appears on his SIH page

http://www.southirishhorse.com/documents/sih_names.htm

IMR :

Name: Alfred Ernest Coyle Regiment: Late Irish Horse Death Date: 21 Aug 1917 Death Place: Nicholastown, Ireland

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Thank you Johnnie, a great bit of detection. They will be remembered!

Kind regards.

Tom.

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Quinless-October 16/1917, at Steevens Hospital, from illness contracted on active service, John Augustine, husband of Minnie Quinless, and son of Elizabeth and the late John Quinless, 127 Upper Rathmines.

Pension record and MIC exist for John Quinless of Rathmines. No 37385 RAMC. Enlisted 26 Sept 1914 aged 34, a painter. Discharged 8/6/1917 no longer physically fit. No SWB.

Nothing in the pension record re his death. Wife Mary (married in Howth, 1907) and 2 children (Norah 1910 and Isabella 1912). Address 58 Charles St, Mountjoy Square, Dublin.

Epithelmioma - not cause by or aggravated by war service.

1901 census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Royal_Exchange/Aungier_Street/1307909/

1911 census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Mountjoy/Russell_Street/12931/

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Weekly Irish Times, April 6, 1918.
Moore-March 27, at Military Hospital, Curragh Camp, Albert Edward Moore, Barrack Warden, A.S.C.

Death registration giving his age/year of birth

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FR26-Y49

Might be a total red herring but an Albert Edward Moore born Naas district in 1881

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FBW8-3XM

Nothing else matching this chap so far. Might be a case of having to get a copy of the death cert.

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Elley-April 16, at 7 Aungier Street, Thomas Richard, late Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, son of Thomas and Eleanor Elley.

Death entry for 1918

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FR2F-63G

Pension record for 13510 Thomas R Elley Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers shows father Thomas with address as 7 Aungier St. Enlisted 17/9/1914; discharged 16/11/1917. Gave his year of birth as 1895

Prolapse of rectum (if I read the record correctly). Not a result of service or aggravated by war service REcurrence of disability from childhood.

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O’Neill-reported missing March 21, now reported killed in action on that date, John Gabriel O’Neill, Lieutenant Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, son of John and Kate O’Neill, Derrylavin, N.C. Road.

think this chap died in 1960 based on a family tree but nothing definitive

LG entry 2nd Lt in August 1915

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29283/pages/8731/page.pdf

1901 census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Glasnevin/St__John_s_Terrace__N_C_R_/1273731/

1911 census

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Arran_Quay/Longfield_Terrace__Circular_Road__North/44021/

Marriage in 1924 which is possibly him

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYNJ-ZNB

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Thank you Johnnie. It will take me a bit of time to absorb your finds. Just changed computers, last one croaked. You really are most helpful and I very much appreciate all your findings. I know it takes a lot of time and effort for which I am very thankful to you. Its people like your good self that will eventually help to find and remember our Irish heroes. Have you felt the rumbling from the ground up? There are moves afoot, others are beginning to wake up and realise they had relatives in the Great War and they should be remembered. Next year will be a very refreshing one as, I hope, each county will take up the baton and run with it. It is only right and should have been done 95 years ago.

Once again, thank you for your great help and valuable support.

Kind regards.

Tom.

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happy to help Tom.

FFrench-May 23, killed in action, George Edward Ffrench, Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force, son of the Rev.Le.B. Edwrad and Violet Ffrench, Kilconnell Rectory, Ballinasloe.

An easy find for this chap :

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/118838/FFRENCH,%20GEORGE%20EDWARD

http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/624052-post4.html

His son went into the RAF

http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/6825

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IFCP.
Weekly Irish Times, March 15, 1919.
Roll of Honour.

Guilgault-March 4, 1919, at Montreal of heart failure contracted on active service, Demosthene, son of Léony Guilgault, 53 Leeson Park.

A family tree on Acnestry has Joseph Day Eugene Léony (Démosthène) Guilgault born 12th June 1878 in Dublin; died 4th March 1919 in Montreal. Emigrated 1912.
Father as Ulysse Octave Léony Guilgault born France 1849; married Mary Day (died 1918) in Rathmines 9th April 1874; died 31st December 1932.
Professor of French according to the 1911 census
1901 census
The Professor appears to have a number of books on Amazon and one at the NLI re Army entrance exam preparation
Re the son, 3 Canadian entries have him as dead in 1917
Birth
Findagrave entry echoes some of the above
TCD and Church Plaques
Mount Jerome Headstones
No.6015
GUILGAULT Burial Place

No.6016
Headstone on number 6015: Top: "Thy will be done"
In Loving Memory of | MARY | beloved wife of | LEONY GUILGAULT | who died 23rd
April 1918 | 53 Leeson Park | A devoted wife & loving mother | Also of their
only son | DEMOSTHENE, B.A. T.C.D. | Cadet C.F.A. | who died 4th March 1919 |
Interred at Montreal | Also the above | LEONY GUILGAULT | called home Dec. 31st
1932 | Together with Christ | "Not gone from memory not gone from love | but
safe in their Fathers home above"

No.6017
Tablet Base of front of number 6015: Also their daughters | BLANCHE MARIE
EUGENIE GUILGAULT | died 21st February 1964, aged 89 | BERTHA ELISE MARGUERITE
GUILGAULT | died 6th February 1965 aged 88 | ANNIE ETHEL MAUDE GUILGAULT | died
31st October 1968 aged 88
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Well done again Johnny, another great piece of detective work. Kind regards.

Tom.

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Weekly Irish Times….not in CWGC
Roll of Honour.
McCall-March 19, 1919, at 6 Coburgh Place, Dublin, Lieutenant James Martin McCall, R.N.R., eldest son of David and Lizzie McCall.

The death registry entry for James McCall

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FR21-L31

He's in the 1916, 1917 and 1919 Navy Lists. The only ship he is listed on his Fame (station around Honk Kong/Far East for the duration of the war) and he appears on this thread in conjunction with the ship

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=199559

His probate record gives him as Lieut RNR

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K62J-ZZP

Address on the probate is 6 Coburgh Place which tallies with the 1911 census for the family

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/North_Dock/Coburg_Place/21543/

No info yet about where he's buried. Suspect we would need his death cerificate for any more info re his death in/out of service.

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