Medal Society of Ireland

Saint Paul’s Church of Ireland, Portarlington, Co. Offaly

by Liam Dodd

The war memorial to the men of this parish is small with only eleven names, there is also a family memorial which contains the name of a casualty of the Great War in the church. In the graveyard adjoining the church you will find one Commonwealth War Grave Commission site to a soldier who died at home in 1918, he is also listed on the memorial. On researching the eleven men on the memorial I found information on nine of them, wihich is listed below. The two I found no information on are H. McBride and A.H. Wright.

E. Farrell - Private - Royal Irish Regiment - 25266 - 7th Battalion - Died 12/12/1917 - Age 26 years - Son of Edward & Emily Farrell Main Street Portarlington King’s Co - Buired Templeux-le-Guerard British Cemetery.

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH  1 Nov  1992

A new headstone identifying a once unknown soldier as the only son of the poet Rudyard Kipling has been placed on a grave in a war cemetery in France, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has announced. It marks the burial place of 18 year old Lt John Kipling of the Irish Guards, who was killed at the battle of Loos, near Arras, in 1915.

by Liam Dodd

(A list of Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police, with details of service, date and place of death).

by James Scannell

by Liam Dodd

Private Patrick Nolan, only son of the late Patrick Nolan and Mrs. Nolan, 3 Clifford Street, Wexford, now reported killed. Many years ago private Nolan adopted the career of a sailor, but finally settled in New Zealand. He married there, his wife being a native of Scotland.

by Tom O’Neill

Illustrated opposite are some of the badges worn by Irish Troops serving overseas. The four circular U.N. patches have been worn both as a cap badge on the blue U.N. peak cap, and as a shoulder patch. All are white detail on a U.N. blue background.

by Liam Dodd

Mr. Frank Fahy, speaker of Dail Eireann, presided yesterday at Leinster House at the first meeting of the body set up to administer the Deeds of Bravery Act. The meeting accepted a design for a bravery medal submitted by Mr. Richard J. King, 2 Vico Terrace, Dalkey, Co. Dublin and he was awarded the prize of 50 offered for competition.

by Liam Dodd & Conor Dodd

This Church of Ireland school which first opened in March 1904 and is situated just out side Dalkey on the north side of the village on the way to Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown). The memorials to the past pupils who died in The Great War 1914-18 and the Second World War 1939-45 are set in two large rocks, in a small garden to the left of the school.

His Majesty the King has been pleased on the recommendation of the President of the Board of Trade, to award the Bronze Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea to Corporal (now Sergeant) William Thomas Watson and Corporal Harry Holmes formerly of a Reserve Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, in recognition of their services at the wreck of the Danish ship Fulvia of Svendborg in Dundrum Bay Co. Down on the 18th November 1916.

Memorial Inscriptions of Grangegorman Military Cemetery is the latest publication available from the Genealogical Society of Ireland. The cemetery, which is situated on Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin was opened in the 1870's as a burial ground for British and Commonwealth military service personnel and their families.

by James Oliver Breen

Did you know that within the perimeter of Fermanagh there have been laid to rest three winners of the Victoria Cross? These graves do not have any markings, nor do they have any indication that they hold the final resting place of men who won the world’s premier award, the Victoria Cross.

Obituary

by Liam Dodd

The Rev. Francis Browne S.J. whose death has occurred in Dublin, was born in Cork in 1880. He was educated at Belvedere College and Castleknock College and entered the Society of Jesus at Tullamore in 1897. Having studied philosophy at Chieri, Italy, he taught at Clongowes and Belvedere for seven years before beginning his theological studies at Milltown Park Dublin, where he was ordained in 1915 by his uncle, the Most Rev. Dr. Browne, Bishop of Cloyne.

by J. Morton