Friday 14 March 2014

Foyle College and the Great War

Foyle College's contribution to the Great War was not unusual. As with many schools the faces that stare down from the team photographs of the early twentieth century would volunteer to swap the mud of the rugby field for the clogging mire of the trenches. A total of four hundred and ninety Old Boys would answer the call to arms. To some this may not seem a particularly large number but at that time, long before the Education Act of 1947, the cadre of the school was comfortably under two hundred. Seventy two of their number would not return. Reading through their names and ranks one cannot but notice the percentage who held the rank of Subaltern. It is reported that the average life expectancy for a junior officer at the Front was only six weeks, even less than that of the , "other ranks."


Trooper R. S. Bailey - North Irish Horse

Captain J Ballentine - 11th Batt R. Inniskilling Fusiliers

Lieut. J. H. Barr - Royal Irish Rifles

Lieut. J. J. Beasley - 6th Batt. Royal Irish Fusiliers

Corporal C. H. Binions - Royal Engineers

F. P. Blacklay - 79th Canadian Cameron Highlanders

2nd Lieut W. G. Boyd - Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

2nd Lieut W. K. M. Britton - Royal Flying Corps

Captain B. Brown, M.C. - R.A.M.C.

Lieut. D. Buchanan - 2nd Batt. Seaforth Highlanders

Lieut. R. B. Buchanan - R. Irish Regiment

R. Burgess - South African Field Force

Lieut. T. C. Campbell - Royal Engineers

Private A. G. Cathcart - 5th Canadian Infantry

J. Clarke - 26th Batt. Royal Fusiliers

2nd Lieut. J. N. Corscaden - Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

2nd Lieut. E. E. Craig - 20th Batt. Royal Irish Rifles

Cadet S. W. Craig - Royal Irish Rifles

2nd Lieut. C. L. Crockett - 12th Batt. Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

Captain W. R. Cronyn - Royal Army Veterinary Corps

Lieut. A. J. S. Dick - Royal Inskilling Fuisiliers

Assistant Paymaster J. Diver - Royal Navy

2nd Lieut. J. W. Drennan - 10th Batt. Royal Inskilling Fuisiliers

Flight Sub- Lieut. M. English - Royal Naval Air Service

2nd Lieut. R. R. Gallagher - Attached 4th Worcester Regiment

Captain V. Gilliland - Attached 2nd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles

Lieut. G. Given - Royal Navy

Lieut. V. A. Gransden - Royal Irish Rifles

F. J. Guy - Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

2nd Lieut. J. H. M. Hadden - Royal Irish Rifles

Flt - Commander E G. Harvey - Royal Flying Corps

2nd Lieut. T. S. Haslett MC. - 17th Batt Royal Irish Rifles

S. Irvine - South African Field Force

J. Kennedy - Canadian Contingent

2nd Lieut. D. L. Kyle - Royal Engineers

F. Lawson

2nd Lieut. J. W. McCarter - Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

2nd Lieut. T. F. McCay - Royal Irish Rifles

Lieut. E. McClure - 10th Batt. Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

2nd Lieut. D. McConnell - Royal Flying Corps

Lieut. J. McCurdy - 9th Batt. Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

W. McLurg - Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

2nd Lieut. W. Maultseed - Royal Irish Rifles

2nd Lieut. E. C. Mee - 11th Batt. West Yorkshire Regiment

Lieut. Bruce Millar - 5th Batt. Royal Irish Rifles

Captain R. W. Mitchell - 2nd Batt. Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

2nd Lieut J. W. Montgomery - Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

Lieut. J. R. Moore - Connaught Rangers

D. Morgan - Royal Naval Division

Major H. Morrison - Machine Gun Corps

Private H. A. Mulholland - 75th Canadians

Captain H. D. S. O'Brien - Attached Royal Air Force

Trooper J. A. Pinkerton - North Irish Horse

Flt.- Commander L. Porter - Royal Flying Corps

J. L. Quigley - 9th Batt. Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

Lieut. R. Shannon - Canadian Infantry

2nd Lieut. W. M. Sheridan - 17th Batt. Royal Irish Rifles

2nd Lieut G. D. L. Smyth - Royal Irish Rifles

2nd Lieut. L. G. Stewart - 15th Royal Welsh Fuisiliers

Lieut. A. Stuart - 2nd Batt. Royal Munster Fuisiliers

2nd Lieut L. W. H. Stevenson M.C. - 9th Batt. Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

Captain C. G. Tillie - 1st Batt. Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

Corporal J. A. Walker - Royal Engineers

2nd Lieut. James Watson - 23rd Batt. Manchester Regiment

Lieut. G. C. Wedgewood - Machine Gun Corps

G. White - Grenadier Guards

Captain C. B. Williams - 3rd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles

Captain E. J. Williams - 3rd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles

Lieut. J. A. Williams - 3rd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles

G. Wilson - Canadian Contingent

2nd Lieut. V. J. E. Wilson - Royal Inniskilling Fuisiliers

 

Source: Our School Times Supplement, February 1919

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