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Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)

Battalion/etc.

10th Battalion
(ATT 9TH SERVICE Battalion)

Surname

DUNWOODY

Christian Name(s)

Hugh Henderson

Initials

H H

Born

Enlisted

Residence

Age:

26

Date of Death:

31/07/16

Died How

Killed in action

Theatre of War

France & Flanders

Rank

Second Lieutenant (TP)

Service Number

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

III. B. 3.

Cemetery:

RATION FARM (LA PLUS DOUVE) ANNEXE        

Supplementary Notes

Notes

Youngest son of Robert and Eliza Ann Dunwoody, of 92, Holywood Rd., Strandtown, Belfast.

Notes

By his wife Eliza Ann, daughter of the late Samuel Todd of Belfast.

information supplied by
Tom Burnell
Thurles Famine and War Museum

Educated Campbell College, Belmont, Belfast and Queen's University, Belfast, where he was a member of the OTC. Obtained a commission, 18th February, 1916. Served with the expeditionary force in France and Flanders. Took part in the operations on the Somme, 1st July, 1916 and was killed in action on the 31st of that month while on listening point duty. Buried in La Plus Houve Farm, near Wulverghem. His Colonel wrote: "Your son had only joined this battalion a short time. He was showing great keenness in his work and had already been out on patrol under instructions and done well and he gave promise of becoming a good officer. My sympathy goes out to you in your sorrow. We laid him to rest in a little cemetary here and his grave will be marked with a plain cross with name and date 'killed in action'" and a brother officer: "He died doing more than his duty."

Remembered on:-

Larne Grammar School Plaque

Remembered on:-

Larne War Memorial