Showing posts with label Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Show all posts

15 September 2018

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - Other Rank PoWs 1914


There are 102 men on this list of men from the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 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 1/141: a 7-page typed list sent to Sir Ernest Goodhart, date unknown.

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

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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 the website is free; finding your man can be somewhat more challenging.


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10542 Private Sidney Barr, 10208 Private Charles Breslin, 8692 Private John Burnside, 10567 Private William Byrne.

10342 Private William Carlin, 10214 Private Joseph Carr, 7496 Private William Carson, 9129 Private Alexander Cash, 9649 Private Robert Clarkin, 10549 Private Joseph Clint, 7285 Private Edward Collard, 7026 Private James Conaghan, 6422 Private William Corbett, 8606 Lance-Corporal Patrick Corcoran, 9264 Sergeant Alfred Cowell, 7190 Private James Crawford, 9929 Private Robert Curry.

8024 Private James Devlin, 6965 Lance-Corporal John Dornan, 7804 Private William E Duffy.

7431 Private George Emms.

6847 Private Henry Farr, 7726 Private Alexander Feehely, 8014 Private George Feeney, 8199 Private George W Fleming, 8432 Private Patrick Flynn, 7712 Private James Fulton.

6401 Private Charles G Gardiner, 9029 Private Edward Gavagan, 7688 Private Michael Gilfedder, 7292 Private Percy G Goodall.

10552 Private Andrew Hamilton, 6936 Private Michael Harte, 4526 Private John Haslin, 8164 Sergeant Magnus Hedge, 7424 Lance-Corporal Samuel Hill, 7233 Private James Holmes.

8232 Sergeant Joseph Irwin.

7282 Private Walton Jones.

7957 Private James Keaveney, 8035 Private Patrick J Keenan, 10348 Private Charles T Kirby, 10001 Private Reginald Knight.

7069 Private John Linton, 10712 Private John J Loughran.

6749 Private William MacFarlane, 7435 Private Joseph Mackenna, 7036 Private Charles Madden, 10467 Private Alexander McBride, 6718 Private James McCallion, 10480 Private Thomas McCormick, 9689 Private William McCoy, 8050 Private Francis McCreanor, 8194 Private John McCullough, 9513 Private Thomas McDermott, 7501 Private Patrick McGinley, 8851 Michael McGlinchey, 10538 Private John McGookin, 10462 Private Walter McIlroy, 10232 Private Lawrence McLoughlin, 8374 Private Henry McNally, 7521 Private Frederick McNulty, 7912 Private Thomas McQuade, 6469 Private Thomas Miller, 6838 Corporal Hamilton Mitchell, 7303 Private Joseph Moore, 7304 Private Robert Moore, 9011 Private William Moore, 10202 Private Edward Morrow, 8973 Private James D Moylan, 6000 Private Joseph Muldoon, 9355 Sergeant Walter Murrell.

7273 Private John Naughton.

9487 Private James Orr.

8731 Private Robert Patterson

9579 Lance-Corporal Robert Reynolds, 9561 Private Patrick Rice, 7810 Private Francis Richards, 8581 Private John Robinson, 7790 Private Patrick Roche, 6855 Private George Roy.

10643 Private Kier Simms, 10317 Private Thomas Skelly, 8289 Private Horace Skinner, 7417 Private John Smythe, 8981 Private Harry R Southwood, 6621 Private William Spence, 7667 Private Edward Starkie, 6468 Private William Stewart, 8197 Private James Sweeney.

8225 Private William Telford, 8142 Private Joseph Thompson.

8693 Private William Wallace, 5728 Sergeant James Walsh, 9675 Drummer Charles Warden, 7520 Private Henry White, 8167 Lance-Corporal Robert Wilkinson, 10164 Private Edward Wilson, 7743 Private Francis Wilson, 7910 Private Robert Winter, 7618 Private Alfred Wood.

9679 Private William J Young,

21 January 2017

4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers


The 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers came into being in 1908 with the demise of the militia. Rather than start a new regimental number series from 1, the newly formed 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion simply continued with the series which had been used by the 4th (Militia) Battalion.  The battalion was headquartered at Enniskillen.

2311 joined on 29th June 1908 albeit he had originally been given this number when he joined the 4th (Militia) Battalion on the 4th April 1902
2430 joined on 27th October 1909
2474 joined 10th January 1910
4/2583 joined on 6th March 1911
4/2706 joined on 10th January 1912
2840 joined 4th October 1912
2875 joined 28th November 1912
2896 joined 11th January 1913
2925 joined 20th February 1913
2941 joined 1st April 1913
3023 joined 30th July 1913
3097 joined 3rd October 1913
4/3121 joined 15th October 1913
3126 joined 17th October 1913
3148 joined 19th November 1913
3181 joined 30th December 1913
3231 joined 11th March 1914
4/3261 joined 17th April 1914
4/3338 joined 28th July 1914
4/3374 joined 7th August 1914

Note that men with numbers lower than 2311 will all have seen prior service with the militia. Note too that this particular regimental numbers series was distinct form the series used by the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, and the series used by the regular 1st and 2nd Battalions. Some attempt at distinguishing the series was made by prefixing the regimental number series with the battalion number, thus 4/2583 etc. However, this convention was inconsistently applied and still, over a hundred years later, leads to confusion when researching military ancestors in British infantry regiments.

My thanks to AJH, whose comment on my 1st & 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers post, together with many of the regimental numbers and enlistment dates posted above prompted today's addition to this regimental numbers' blog.

I've borrowed the image on this blog post from the very interesting British Army Medical Services and the Malta Garrison 1799-1979.


22 August 2009

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - 1st & 2nd Battalions


This post will look at army service numbers issued to men joining the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers between 1881 and 1914.


There are over 48,000 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers service andpension records (for this regiment - and its antecedents) in various War Office series held at the National Archives. Clicking on the link will take you to the results on Findmypast but you will need a subscription or Pay-Per-View credits to actually view the records. Some of these records can also be viewed on-line on Ancestry although Findmypast has by far the most comprehensive service record collection.


Use the regimental numbers and dates on which these were issued, below, to determine parameters for when your own Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers ancestor would have joined up. Note though that these numbers are only for regular enlistments. Special Reserve and Extra Reserve battalions operated completely separate regimental number sequences.

10 joined on 30th July 1881
289 joined on 17th October 1882
599 joined on 11th July 1883
837 joined on 12th February 1884
1501 joined on 8th June 1885
1847 joined on 30th January 1886
2210 joined on 17th April 1887
2442 joined on 27th February 1888
2849 joined on 8th February 1889
3293 joined on 9th July 1890
3505 joined on 28th January 1891
3885 joined on 10th May 1892
4195 joined on 15th January 1893
4609 joined on 29th May 1894
4814 joined on 22nd January 1895
5201 joined on 18th January 1896
5507 joined on 19th August 1897
5975 joined on 25th July 1898
6208 joined on 31st January 1899
6489 joined on 5th January 1900
6890 joined on 28th February 1901
7295 joined on 21st July 1902
7648 joined on 24th April 1903
7959 joined on 24th May 1904
8251 joined on 28th February 1905
8447 joined on 3rd February 1906
8920 joined on 9th January1907
9521 joined on 28th August 1908
9646 joined on 22nd April 1909
9812 joined on 17th February 1910
10094 joined on 2nd September 1911
10277 joined on 8th May 1912
10591 joined on 15th November 1913
10744 joined on 3rd August 1914

The following day, Britain went to war with Germany, and when the new service battalions of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers started forming shortly afterwards, they too drew their numbers from the same series which, up until that point, had been the sole preserve of the two regular battalions.

Also see this post on regimental numbering in the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

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The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the World War
Written at a time when there had only been one world war, this book details the actions of the regiment's thirteen battalions during the First World War.
The regiment lost over five and a half thouand men and won seven Victoria Crosses. Two appendices provide the Roll of Honour with the officers grouped together in alphabetical order and the other ranks alphabetically by battalions, and the list of Honours and Awards. These are headed by the VCs with citations and the others are grouped according to the award - in all cases the names are in alphabetical order. Battalions of the regiment served on the Western Front, in Gallipoli, Salonika and Palestine; two of them were with the 10th (Irish) Division, two with the 16th (Irish ) Division - the North and the South.
The book is arranged in three parts: the first provides the background to the war and the that of the Inniskillings and the type of man who served in the regiment; the second part, which takes up most of the book, is about the war on the Western Front and the part played by the battalions; the third section deals with the Eastern theatres - Gallipoli, Salonika and Palestine. This is a well-written and descriptive Great War regimental history. CLICK to order.
The recruitment poster on this post also appears on the excellent, Ballymena and the Great War website.

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