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World War One / Re: 2nd Bn Munster Fusiliers during WW1
« on: Monday 23 August 10 17:43 BST (UK)  »
Hello Mitch
I have just joined roots chat and immediately latched onto your note re the 2nd Bn RMF.
My maternal grandfather Sergent Joseph Bent Hedley (alsoHeadley) was a professional soldier, reg no 8959 in the 2nd Bn.
He was posted to France and was killed in action aged 26 on the 21st December 1914 with no known grave and recorded as such on the Le Touret Memorial.
My mother was born in 1912 so she never had any memories of her father and although I remember a photograph of him in uniform hanging on my Grans wall in the 1950s, this has not survived and it would be great if there existed any such item in the RMF archives.
Can you help?  and also explain why a man from Sunderland in the NorthEast of England should join an Irish Regiment when to my knowledge there are no close Irish connection in the family at that period.

Eric

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