Category Archives: Royal Irish Regiment

Burke C J Major DSO 18th Royal Irish Regiment Attd Royal Flying Corps

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Burke C J Major DSO 18th Royal Irish Regiment Attd Royal Flying Corps

BURKE, CHARLES JAMES, D.S.O., Major (Temp. Lient. Col.) 18th (Service) Battn. The Royal Irish Regt., 3rd s. of the late Michael Christopher Burke, of Ballinhone House, Armagh, by his wife, Amy Jervaise; b. Armagh, 9 March, 1882: educ. King’s School, Bruton; obtained a commission 22 May, 1900: served in the South African War, 1899-1901 (Queen’s Medal with five clasps), and later with the West African Frontier Force in 1910 he was employed at the Acroplane and Balloon School, and flew the first aeroplane purchased by the British Government; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Aug. 1914, being attached to the Royal Flying Corps until May, 1916; took a pilot’s certificate of the French Aero Club the following Nov., and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras on 9 April, 1917, while in command of the 1st Battn. The East Lancashire Regt. Buried in Effie Trench Cemetery, Altier-les-Arras. Major Burke was three times mentioned in Despatches [London Gazettes, 9 Dec. 1914 and 1 Jan. 1916] by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French, and London Gazette, 22 May, 1917 by F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, and was also awarded the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He m. in London, 28 April, 1909, Beatrice Osborn, dau, of William Shakespeare, and had four children: Michael Robert James, b. 16 Sept. 1912: Charles Graham, b. 3 Jan. 1914; Amy Beatrice, b. 18 Jan. 1910, and Vivienne Doreen, b. 27 Sept. 1911.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Briggs-Gooderham E J R 2nd Lt 3rd Royal Irish Regiment Attd Machine Gun Corps

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Briggs-Gooderham E J R 2nd Lt 3rd Royal Irish Regiment Attd Machine Gun Corps

2nd Lieut. the Reverend ERNEST JOHN ROBINSON BRIGGS GOODERHAM.

3rd Royal Irish Rifles, was the son of J. R. Briggs Gooderham, Esq., and nephew of the Rev. A. Gooderham, Vicar of Chillingham. He was born in 1889, and entered the School House in September, 1903. He left in July, 1908, for Caius College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. (2nd Class Theological Tripos) in 1911. He was ordained Deacon in 1912, and was Curate of Christ Church, Crouch End. In April, 1915, he enlisted in the Norfolk Regiment, and he received his commission in the Royal Irish Rifles in that year. Whilst serving in France he was attached to the Machine Gun Corps, and he was killed in action on the 13th December, 1916.

Source : The War Record Of Old Dunelmians 1914-1919

Stacpoole G E G Lt Royal Irish Regiment

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Stacpoole G E G Lt Royal Irish Regiment

Source : The Sphere 13th Feb 1915

Stacpoole G E G Lt 1st Royal Irish Regiment

STACPOOLE, GEORGE ERIC GUY, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Irish Regt., eldest s. of Richard George Stacpoole, of 26, Walton Street, Hans Place, London, and of co. Clare, by his wife, Edith Maude, dau. of Sir Edward Dean Paul, 4th Bart., and great grandson of the late Richard John de la Zouche Stacpoole, of Eden Vale, co. Clare; b. Sefton Park, Liverpool, 10 Jan. 1892; educ. Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Irish Regt., 4 Nov. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 16 Aug. 1914; joined his Regt. at Nasirabad, India, in Jan. 1912, and while stationed there went in for transport work, and passed the appointed course; returned to England in Nov. 1914; went to France in Dec. with the 27th Division, and was killed in action at St. Eloi, 27 Jan. 1915; unm. Buried in Dickebusch Cemetery. His commanding officer wrote: “I very much deplore his loss, as a gallant officer, fearless, true and upright, and popular with all ranks of his Battn.”

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1