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Children's home grounds

from Mennonite Church USA Archives

  • MIke Shank said:
    The swings and the tree house in the large horse chestnut tree were favorite play sites

He lies far from the land of his fathers

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Previously ...
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Holohan deserted the British Army in India, and escaped by a German cargo boat, arriving at Marseilles in 1914. He re-entered the British Army under the general amnesty given to deserters. He was wounded and taken prisoner in Oct 1914, and ended up in Limburg”

    www.irishbrigade.eu
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Findagrave has this odd duplicate:
    www.findagrave.com
  • John Spooner said:
    Niall McAuley Coincidentally there's also a Patrick Holohan of the 1st Bn Royal Irish Regiment, who died exactly a year earlier. His name is on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres.

    CWGC
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Niall McAuley John Spooner
    By what seems to be an odd coincidence there are two Patrick Holohans buried apparently at Zossen.

    Patrick Holohan died 16 Mar 1915
    www.cwgc.org
    Name: HOLOHAN, PATRICK
    Rank: Private
    Regiment/Service: Royal Irish Regiment
    Unit Text: 1st Battalion.
    Date of Death: 16/03/1915
    Service No: 3130
    Additional information: (Buried at the time in Zossen Communal Cemetery, Germany).
    Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
    SDGW has him born St Mary's, Kilkenny; resident Tipp. Enlisted Tipp. Service record online at Ancestry. Lots of family info, enlisted 4th Battn Royal Irish Regt 1904 aged 18. No info re being a PoW; lots of info re being presumed dead as at 16/3/1915. MIC shows 1915 Star, BWM and VM. Entered theatre 25/1/1915.

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    Patrick Holohan died 16 Mar 1916
    Name: HOLOHAN, PATRICK
    Rank: Private
    Regiment/Service: Royal Irish Regiment
    Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
    Date of Death: 16/03/1916
    Service No: 9877
    Grave/Memorial Reference: Zassen Cem. Mem.
    Cemetery: BERLIN SOUTH-WESTERN CEMETERY
    Ireland's casualties of WW1 has : 9877 as died of wounds France 26th March 1918. A Corporal (Lance Sergeant) from St Cannices's, Kilkenny. 2nd Battn Royal Irish Regt. Entry repeated in SDGW. Both give date of death as 1918. No service record online at Ancestry. MIC shows 1914 Star, BWM and VM. Died as PoW 16/3/1916 (not 1918 as per Ireland Cas and SDGW). Entered theatre 19/9/1914

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David Rhodes with a group of club children

from Mennonite Church USA Archives

  • MIke Shank said:
    I believe the boy with elbows on his knees is André Melez, the girl with hair band (2nd from left in the back) belongs to the Kakmar family.