Casualty Pte W.Duffy King's Liverpool Regt - was this schoolteacher a regular soldier or Clergyman ?

[davidbohl]

Researching Liverpool catholic schoolteacher William Duffy #48851 KLR https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4037115/duffy,-/

 

Firstly, have I got the right man in this newspaper clip and secondly was he an active fighting soldier or did he have a clergy type role ?

Many thanks

Dave

 

 

[ss002d6252]

It seems the title 'Brother' was down to membership of the Ancient Order of Hibernians rather than an ecclesiastical role - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Order_of_Hibernians

 

Craig

[IanA]

Indeed. A 'clergy type role' would not go well with the rank of 'private'.