Sunday 20 June 2010

Lt Philip G McMaster, 18th Bn, MGC

Lieutenant Philip George McMaster of the 18th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, was killed in action on the 20th June 1918. He was the son of John and Margaret McMaster, of Tullyard House, Lisburn, County Down and had previously served with the Royal Irish Rifles, arriving in France with the regiment on the 22nd July 1916. He later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and is buried in Ribemont Communal Cemetery Extension on the Somme.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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