L/6415 Pte Michael Henry Kiley, 4th Bn, Middlesex Regiment

L/6415 Private Michael Henry Kiley of the 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment died of wounds on the 24th September 1915. Michael was a Londoner, born in Hoxton, and his number indicates that he joined the Middlesex Regiment around July or August 1900. This being the case, he probably saw service during the Boer War.

Pte Kiley's medal index card at the National Archives makes no mention of him dying of wounds but instead states "demob" which is strange as both the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Soldiers Died in The Great War agree that the man with these names and this number died on 24th September 1915. Michael's card shows that he arrived in France on 7th April 1915.

Michael Kiley is buried in Divisional Cemetery near Ypres in Belgium; grave reference E.10.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission