Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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The 14-year-old who was probably the youngest Irish serviceman to die in WW1
- Irish News
- August 11, 2018, 16:18
For much of the last 100 years it was assumed that Private John Condon from Waterford city was the youngest British soldier to die in the first World (...)

Irish crew killed by German mine in 1917 honoured in Mayo
- Irish News
- September 8, 2017, 16:57
The deaths of 10 Irish and Scottish crew in a first World War sinking off the north Mayo coast have been marked at a centenary commemoration in Erris.(...)

There is a photograph in the Redmond family collection which may well be the last one taken of Major Willie Redmond MP. Redmond, who is wearing his (...)

From Gallipoli to Salonika and the Balkans, to the Calvary of Passchendaele
- Heritage
- May 22, 2017, 05:00
In the wake of their costly participation in the Somme campaign, the two Irish infantry divisions that had served so far in France were moved north to(...)

The story of a missing Irish soldier
- Irish News
- April 10, 2017, 01:00
For almost 100 years Dublin-born soldier Lieutenant William Frederick MacHutchison was one of the missing of the first World War. On Wednesday a new h(...)

Grave of Irishman killed during first World War identified
- Irish News
- April 10, 2017, 01:00
Like so many parents, John and Jane MacHutchison endured the double agony of not only losing a son in the first World War, but also having no place to(...)

An Irishman’s Diary about the grave of Willie Redmond
- Opinion
- March 11, 2016, 01:00
Among the countless war graves of France and Belgium, the one containing the remains of Willie Redmond is like no other. It stands apart, literally an(...)

Minister pays tribute to relative who died at Gallipoli
- Irish News
- October 6, 2015, 20:03
Minister of State Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has described the visit to his relative’s grave in Gallipoli as squaring the circle of remembrance in his family.(...)

Grave of Rudyard Kipling’s son correctly named, says authority
- Irish News
- September 25, 2015, 15:57
The grave of Irish Guards Lieut John Kipling, the son of writer Rudyard Kipling, is correctly identified, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC(...)

War grave of George Harrison’s grandfather identified
- Heritage
- September 16, 2015, 19:00
Researchers claim to have discovered the first World War grave of the grandfather of former Beatle George Harrison in northern France. Pte Henry Harr(...)