irishguards

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"The tower was covered with a thick mantle of ivy, which lvas doing harm, and was removed in 1900, when the portion above the lower window was restored. " From Crofton Memoirs, 1911, which helps verify the post-1900 date.

Death of Sir Hugh Crofton, Bart. On Tuesday morning Sir Hugh Denis Crofton, Bart., J.P., died at The Castle, Mohill, from pneumonia, following an attack of typhoid fever. The deceased baronet was only in his 24th year, and was unmarried. He was a graduate and B.A. of Cambridge University. He was recently appointed to the Commission of the Peace for County Leitrim, where he owned a large property. As a landlord, Sir Hugh Crofton was very popular, and much regret is expressed by all classes in the district at his early demise. He is succeeded in the title by his brother, Sir George Morgan Crofton, of the Irish Guards. (Irish Times, 8 February 1902) Was this chap part of the Crofton family who were related to our photographer Dillons of the Clonbrock Estate?

An Irish Guardsman since Jan/Feb 1909 and therefore presumably on the Army Reserve when war was declared. Arrived overseas 13/09/1914 according to MIC which also notes "assumed dead 6.11.14". De Ruvigny's notes buried at Klein Zillebeke so presumably disinterred subsequently. Came from a military family.

There is a William Brennock aged 20 listed on the 1911 census for the barracks in Belgrave, St George Hanover Square, London. Irish Guards. Born Dublin.
Civil registration shows a birth in the second quarter of 1891 in Dublin South.
Ireland, Casualties of World War I, 1914-1918 for William Brennock confirms this.

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Mentioned in the book: The Irish Guards In The Great War - Volume I - The First Battalion - 1918 - Arras To The Armistice by Rudyard Kipling. www.poetspoetry.com/stories/rudyard-kipling/the-irish-gua...

He was MID in the LG 11/12/1917 pg 10226 : www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30434/supplements/13226

Could he be the Captain (Temporary Major) Harold Edward Van Der Noot (43671), Irish Guards, listed in the Supplement to the London Gazette of 2nd June 1943? There is a Harold Edward Van der Noot (Irish Guards) listed amongst the Special Reserve Officers commissioned from Officer Cadet Units as 2nd Lieutenants on 28th November 1916 (London Gazette 11609 of 28 Nov 1916). His Commission is converted from Special Reserve to Regular as a Lieutenant with effect 29 Oct 1921, with Seniority backdated to 25 nov 1920 (London Gazette page 8611 of 28 Oct 1921), suggesting that he served on in the Irish Guards after 1919?//

The son of Reverend Edgar Van der Noot, Priest in Ordinary to Her Majesty and Rector of Barley in the 1890s had a son, Maj Gilbert Edgar Francis Van der Noot of the Irish Guards, of Oak Cottage, Hartley Witney, co. Hampshire (d. 1981) He married Hon Barbara Mary Cockayne, only daughter. of Rt Hon Sir Algernon West, Baron Cullen of Ashbourne. There must be a connection

Major Harold Edward Van der Noot's son, Colonel Christopher Harold Van Der Noot MBE (Late GORDONS), now a retired officer, himself twice Mentioned in Despatches (1973 and 1980), has kindly offered to provide some details of his father's service (in the New Year 2012).