2nd Bn Munster Fusiliers during WW1

[arnhem44]

Sorry Jack ,I haven't been able to find anything further.The SWB could indeed be the South Wales Borders if it is characterised this way with the number.A place where you may find help would be here in the Victorian Wars forum http://www.victorianwars.com/index.php

Regards
Brendan

[Jack TT]

Thanks Brendan, appreciate your work, I would have attached the  front page of the service record for interest, but the file is over 500k, will not attach

[ork23110]

Hi John,if your confident that this is the man your looking for then I would suggest you check the medal rolls first to find out which battalion he served with,each battalion would of had it's own diary.The National Archives in the UK would be the place to start http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/war-diaries.asp and then you could try the Great War Forum under unit diaries,members there have many of the diaries in question and are willing to do look ups or pass on the info http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=145000&st=0 .Hopefully they may be of some interest to you.

At Jack,hi again.I haven't been able to find anything further due to lack of time,can you tell me where you got that record from?

Regards
Brendan

brendan thanks for that info, just one further question if you can  2nd munsters at Rue de bois 9th may 1915 where would I find info? as in previous post Serjeant 5459 Andy o'donoghue died  there and would have led a company out of trenches and also was MID twice I believe but can only find name in gazette 1 jan 1916.
john

[arnhem44]

Hi John,the Gazette can be very frustrating at times to find anything.If a mention is known to be in there then someone should persevere with it and will get there in the end.I had a quick look and did see the mention for 1916 but nothing else.The M.I.D was a delayed notification if you like in that the mention would only be published when a commander in chief of a theatre of war would submit a dispatch of events to the war office and in that dispatch would be the names of people who were nominated to be named for special mention.Each dispatch could be many months old before being published and a previous dispatch to the war office could be many months older again before that so there was often large gaps in notification.Taking a notification for a military medal for an example,the mention in the Gazette may not appear for up to three months after the award was given.Looking at the Gazette the war office issued that dispatch on the 30th of November 1915,Andy died in May so there is seven and a half months since his death before that dispatch was sent.If he was mentioned a second time it means it's to be found before his his death and possibly on the New Years list of 1915 maybe so might be worth looking there for it.As for the info on the Munsters for that date then again it's the war diary for the 2nd Munsters you need which will give a detailed report on the days events,nine times out of ten you won't find a mention of other rank soldiers names in it but would give a clearer picture of what happened that day,each diary varies with the amount of content but the 2nd Munsters are well documented.Here is an online book giving some details of that day,I hope this link works.
Best regards
Brendan
http://www.archive.org/stream/storyofmunstersa00rick#page/32/mode/2up

[Ricksybaby]

Hi Mitch
I'm trying to gather my fathers service history for ww1. He was born in 1901 in Claire and lied about his age when he enlisted in 1914, joining the "Redmond's Brigade" as he told it. His Serial Number was 10717 and spent his 15th birthday on the Somme near Longueville. He was wounded in the right leg by a German "coal-box" bomb and evacuated to blighty. I do not know what Battalion he was in at this time.
I do know that by 1917, he had transferred to his father's old Regiment, and was a sergeant serving in D Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers. He said that about this time he joined a draft to Egypt, where he served until 1922. He was a sergeant, possibly sergeant major, when the Irish Free State "claimed their sons back from the British Army". Sounds romantic I guess, but it is all I have to go on...but don't know where to go from here.
Can you help me please?
I do have a number of locations in Egypt and the Sudan, where he was stationed if you are interested.

[DaveH1972]

Hello John,

Tommy Hyde and his son Dave here. We hope you are keeping well!

We're wondering if you were able to find out anything about Grandad Tom? We have some of his medals (campaign medals only), his bronze medallion, a photograph of him receiving a medal, a photograph of his gravestone and a copy of one of his citations and are interested to know if you have anything else. Our plan is to create a display box with the items that we have, and it would just be nice to know if some of his other awards/belongings are safe with you or another member of the family. On a recent trip to the UK we enquired at a military memorabilia shop about getting replica copies of the DCM and MM but were told that they would be 600 - 800 pounds each!

Tom and Janet are in Canada at the moment visiting with Dave's family but will be back home this coming Friday (January 25th) and would love to catch up with you.

Hoping to hear from you soon, best wishes,

Tom & Dave Hyde

[madpat]

Hello there, I'm looking for information about a soldier called James Henry McGuinness born in St Catherine's Parish in Dublin in 1874. His service number was 2050 and he died  4 October 1918 in France.

What intrigues me is that given his age at death 44 I imagine he was already a professional soldier before the First War. Would any one know when he might have joined up given his number?

The second puzzle for me is that when reading about the activities of the 2nd Battalion Munsters it would seem he was sent to the Balkans on a date that corresponds with the sending of the 6th Reserve Battalion.

Could it be that he had finished his official service and had been called up from the reserves?
On the Irish Memorial they mixed up his name and called him John instead of James. I don't think his second name Henry always appeared on official papers.

Any info on him would be greatly appreciated thank you.

[Ladyspyder]

My great grandfather served with 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers, and died with them 24/8/1916. He is buried at caterpillar valley cemetery, longueval. His name is Pte William Hall service number 3/5823.
I have cemetry info from Cwgc web site, but don't seem to be able to find info on what battle they were involved with on the date of his death.  Also this might seem strange but the nature of his death, is also not easy to find (ie gas, mortar, shot).

Any help would be gratefully appreciated, as I just don't seem to be getting anywhere.
Many thxs