14 September 2018

Royal Irish Rifles - Other Ranks PoWs 1914


There are 165 men on this list of men from the Royal Irish Rifles who were captured by the Germans on or before Christmas Day 1914. I have transcribed this data from the following Imperial War Museum collection:

B.O.2 1/142: a twelve-page handwritten list of Royal Irish Rifles Other Ranks taken prisoner before Christmas 1914.

My full transcription of these men (not reproduced here) also contains the home address and/or next of kin address of all of the men. 

The full transcription is available for sale for £25. Contact me if you would like to purchase a copy.

For more information about these so-called 'Princess Mary tin PoWs' see my 1914 PoWs page. The majority of these men will also have records published by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Searching is free; finding your man is another matter entirely.



I research soldiers! 
Contact me if you need help.

9012 Private C Angus.

10084 Private John Barry, 10030 Private J Beatty, 7592 Private J Bell, 10282 Private P J Biggs, 10159 Private H Byrne.

10311 Private James Carberry, 7925 Rifleman Stephen Carr, 5802 Private William Carthy, 8373 Sergeant John W Cater, 8762 Private C Cavanagh, 10170 Private N Chapman, Major H R Charley, 6627 Private William Chilcott, 7649 Private M Clarke, 8026 Private P Coleman, 10182 Private E Collins, 5751 Private W Collins, 10200 Private Gerald Condron, 9432 Private P Connell, 10062 Private Samuel Crangle, 8956 Corporal W Crowe, 8426 Private Michael Cummins, 7888 Private Sam Cunningham, 7615 Private Cunningham, 8420 Private Thomas Curry.

10273 Private George Darker, 9034 Private S Darragh, 9982 Private Luke Delaney, 10112 Private Michael Dolan, 8021 Lance-Corporal John Donnelly, 8223 Private P Donnelly, 7153 Private James Dorian, 8489 Private John Dornan, 5460 CSM Alfred Dowling, 5770 Private R Dubois, 10052 Private J Dulcie.

7635 Lance-Corporal William Egan, 10155 Private Alfred Eite, 5744 Private A English, 10108 Private John Epplestone.

9424 Private James Fenlon, 10214 Private William Finegan, 7682 Private William Flanagan, 8176 Private T Flyn, 7704 Private Lawrence Fullerton.

9224 Private W Galloway, 7817 Sergeant Joseph Gibbons, 7033 Private N Gillespie, 7481 Private J Ginnis, 9971 Sergeant T Gorman, 8729 Private John Gough, 6754 Private R Gowrie, 7155 Corporal J Graham, 7423 Private J Great.

7628 Lance-Corporal Arthur Hade, 6276 Private W Halliday, 9060 Private J Halligan, 10128 Private Samuel Hanna, 8734 Private A Harding, 8265 Lance-Corporal Joseph Heapes, 10282 Private G Hemmings, 6698 Private Herbert L Hurt, 6301 Private Hutchison.

9921 Private William Jeffries, 8771 Private John Johnson, 8011 Private L Johnson.

6863 Private T Keir, 10267 Private H Kelly, 7570 Sergeant M Kiernan.

6958 Private G Lambert, 6904 Private Alex Lennox, 8112 Corporal Samuel Linden, 6396 Private Anthony Loftus, 9578 Private J Lynas, 10233 Private Patrick Lysaght.

8090 Private P Maguire, 7273 Private T Maguire, 9008 Lance-Corporal Joseph Mahoney, 7777 Private Richard Mannering, 7978 Sergeant W Marsh, 6284 Private J Marshall, 9197 Private J McArdle, 7298 Private Archibald McAreavey, 7695 Private C McBride, 8576 Private R McBurney, 7764 Private T McCabe, 5937 Private H McCafferty, 7209 Corporal H McCluskey, 7240 Private Charles McConnell, 9664 Cpl Thoams P McCormack, 9241 Corporal R McCready, 7380 Corporal G S McCrewe, 9295 Private George McCrudden, 5772 Private McCullogh, 7499 Corporal Isaac McCullough, 7645 Private William McCurley, 9072 Private W McDonagh, 6002 Private Daniel McGlennon, 7732 Private Harold McGowan, 6097 Corporal A McGreevy, 7840 Private Hugh McGuigan, 5444 Private J McGuigan, 9062 Private Michael McGuinness, 8882 Private J McKeown, 9038 Private J McManus, 6695 Private James McPolland, 8696 Private Robert Millar, 5066 Lance-Corporal T Monks, 10152 Private H Moreland, 6376 Corporal Horace Morrison, 7810 Private Francis Mulgrew, 10198 Private J Murray, 7906 Private P Murray, 7664 Corporal W Murray.

9043 Private Robert Needham, 6619 Private J Nicol, 10029 Private Percy J Noakes, 10013 Private H Nolan, 8194 Private M Nolan.

7858 Private D O'Brien, 10124 Lance-Corporal P O'Brien, 6341 Private P O'Conor, 8730 Private Daniel O'Donohoue, 8274 Private T O'Keefe, 10201 Private W O'Leary, 5864 Corporal William G Oliver, 10235 Private John O'Mahoney, 7974 Private J O'Neill, 8538 Private W O'Neill.

7396 Private J Perrin, 9218 Private D L Pope, 9696 Private J Poulton, 6715 Private F Prendergast, 8949 Sergeant W J Preston, 7506 Private H Purcell.

8293 Private George Robinson, 10308 Private J Ryan.

7669 Private Lawrence Scannell, 5687 Private J Scott, 10088 Private Patrick Seagrave, 8568 Private W Shield, 8097 Private C Sloane, 8999 Private M Smythe, 9575 Sergeant George Smith/Smyth, 7212 Private W R Stenning, 8819 Private J Sweeney.

9112 Corporal P G Taylor, 10236 Private T Thompson, 9567 Private James Timmins, 7215 Private Reginald Tipton, 10315 Private W Tobin, 7688 Private H Traynor, 5743 Private William H Turkington.

10194 Private J Ward, 6593 Private William Ward, 7945 Corporal G Warde , 7725 Private S West, 6363 Private Percy H Wheeler, 7516 Private B White, 9431 Private F Williams, 9710 Private J Williams, 6835 Private R Williamson, 8147 Private A Wilson, 8971 Private Edgar Woodhead, 7320 Corporal G Woods, 9353 Lance-Corporal S Wright.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great Blog, there's a lot of information here to read. Just a note about "9575 Sergeant P Smythe" on this page: http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.com/2018/09/royal-irish-rifles-other-ranks-pows-1914.html Perhaps it's just a transcription error, I've come across a few on my internet travels! but 9575 was Sergeant George Smith (sometimes Smyth), and that was his alias too.

Paul Nixon said...

Many thanks for pointing this out, now amended.

Grab a book bargain - 1000s of titles