At a lodge meeting held on June 7th 1915, it was proposed by Bro Edward McGonigal and 2nd by Bro Adam Hanna that “All members of the lodge who have joined Lord Kitcheners Army be kept clear on the books until they return.” Passed unanimously. From this we were able to determine most of the regiments each brother mentioned belonged to as well as some other members not included in that particular minute.
Private Isaac Baxter – 11th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles ???
Private Willie Bingham – 8th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles ???
Able Seaman John Cassidy – Royal Navy
Captain W.J. Coles D.C.M. – 15th Kings Hussars (Boer War)
Private Uriah Graham – Connaught Rangers
Private Willie Graham – 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers – Taken POW by the Germans
Lieutenant Robert Hill Hanna V.C. – 29th Battalion Vancouver CEF Canada
Colour Sgt William Thomas McKnight – 13th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles – K.I.A. Passchendaele on 16 August 1917, aged 36. He has no known grave
Private Charles Newell – 12th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
Private Robert Newell – 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Private Edmund Rooney – 8th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles K.I.A.
Thomas Galbraith Scott – No 8 Cadet Wing RAF Transferred to No 2 Wing Kent 1918
Capt. Holt Waring – Lisnacree – 88th Regt of Foot (Pre Connaught Rangers) (Boer War Service from 1854 to 1873)
Captain William Robert White M.C. – 16th Pioneer Battalion Royal Irish Rifles – Previously commander No 4 Co Down Kilkeel Battalion UVF the last regiment of the force to be formed.
Nurse Margaret Anderson M.R.C. – Military Red Cross winner’s brother Joseph Anderson (otherwise known as John Joe) was an LOL 343B lodge member.
We dedicate this blog to their memory and intend as the information about their service to our country becomes available to us to give as full a history of each one listed as we can on the following pages. (Hence ??? Indicates more information is still being sought.)
When the call of duty went out across the British Empire, Orangemen like those of the Kilkeel UVF were the first to answer. It has been reliably estimated that over 200,000 brethren from every part of that Empire joined up with 100,000 of those from Canada alone.
Aughnahoory Heroes LOL 343B Great War Memories 