Ballam R C Cpl 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers

BALLAM, RICHARD CECIL, Corpl., No. 22977, 9th (Service) Battn. Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers), yst. s. of Richard Ballam, of Richardstown, Dunleer, Coachman, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Henry Shore Carlow, of Crettyard, Ireland; b. Salt Hill, co. Galway, 4 April, 1898; educ. Gortbratten Fornham; volunteered for active service, and enlisted in the Royal Irish Fusiliers 4 Nov. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from May, 1917, until severely wounded at the Battle of Ypres 16 Aug. 1917, being employed as a First Class Signaller; returned to France in Sept. 1918, where he served with great gallantry until the armistice was signed, and died at No. 10 Stationary Hospital, Arnike, 5 Dec. following, of influenza. Buried in Turcoing Civilian Cemetery; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Harris E E 2nd Lt 6th Attd 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers

LIEUTENANT ERNEST EDWARD Royal Irish Fusiliers, was the third son of the Rev. and Mrs. Frederic William Harris, having been born at Burton Latimer, Northants, in 1877.

Educated at the Bedford School, he left at the age of seventeen to enter a stockbroker’s office. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1900, and later a partner in the firm of Harris and Co., of 21 Birchin Lane.

As soon as war was declared, he offered his services as a special constable and acted in that capacity until September 1915, when he joined an Officers’ Training Corps. On obtaining his commission in the following month in the 6th Royal Irish Fusiliers, he was sent to Belfast for further training.

Later he took a course of signalling and obtained a first-class certificate. He was appointed a Signalling Instructor at Dublin, remaining there until March 1917, when he proceeded to France to join the 1st Battalion of his Regiment.

On 11 April he went into action at Roeux, and when his company retreated he remained behind to attend to a wounded brother officer. In doing this he was severely wounded and taken prisoner. He was conveyed to Zulich Hospital, where he died of septic poisoning on 21 April.

He was beloved and respected by all who knew him, being to many a generous and kind friend.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Scot S A Captain 5th Royal Irish Fusiliers

SCOT SKIRVING, ARCHIBALD, Capt., 5th Battn Royal Irish Fusiliers, yr. s. of Robert Scot Skirving, M.B., of Sydney, N.S. W., by his wife, Lucy, dau. of the late Trefferson Hester, M.D.; b. Sydney, New South Wales, 7 Sept. 1884; educ. Sydney Grammar School; Eton House, Tonbridge; and the University of Sydney, at which last he graduated as M.B. and C.M. in 1911 with high honours, being the second man of his year. A resident medical officer in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney till 1913, he proceeded in that year to England to take the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, but on the outbreak of war at once volunteered for active service. He had previously joined the University Scouts in 1907, and the 2nd Australian Infantry Regt. in 1909, transferring from the latter in the following year to the N.S.W. Scottish Rifles, which became the 25th Australian Infantry under the new regulations, and after being temporarily attached to the Black Watch was given a commission as Lieut. in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, 4 Sept. 1914, and promoted Capt. 2 Dec. following. He died 9 Aug. 1915 (on board the hospital ship Valdivia), from wounds received near Suvla Bay, and was buried at sea five miles south of Imbros Island. The letters of his fellow officers show him to have been as able and keen in his military duties as he was capable and distinguished in his profession of medicine.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1