19302 Private Harry Magee of the 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, was killed in action on the 10th February 1916. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his name as Henry Magee and notes that he was 26 years old; the son of James Magee of Strabane, and the husband of Maggie Murdock (formerly Magee), of Backfence, Strabane, County Tyrone.
Harry - or Henry - was born in Camus, County Tyrone, and enlisted at Strabane in January 1915. He arrived in France on the 5th October that year. He is buried in Sucrerie Military Cemetery at Colincamps.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, Ireland's Casualties of World War 1 1914-1918)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
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