Featured in today’s Veterans RH is one of the most famous naval surgeons of his time. Surgeon Rear-Admiral, David Hewitt from Dungannon entered the Royal Navy in November 1897. He became Assistant to the Medical Director-General, in which post he served for six years, including the war of 1914-18. The Battle of La Bassée impacts on the Roll of Honour. By 22/10/1914, the 2nd Btn.Royal Irish Rifles had been at the front in France for 70 days. In that time, they had suffered 94 fatalities. In the following five days they were to lose nearly exactly double that figure – 186, in the vicinity of a northern French village which was to become the scene of a vicious set piece battle in the spring of 1915 – Neuve Chapelle. Belfast society is reflected in two entries from 1914. Patrick Bannon was from a mill-working family in the lower Falls area. Argentina-born Vivian Trevor Tighe Rea was educated at Campbell College, QUB and TCD where he was preparing for ordination. Both died serving in the Royal Irish Rifles.Today’s Roll contains records of 14 Royal Irish Rifles who died in WW1, two infanteers who died in WW2 liberating Ghent in Belgium, and two remembered on the Alamein Memorial in Egypt. Photo – CWGC cemetery in Kinross Abbey, Moray
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