Capt John Joseph Esmonde, RAMC

John Joseph Esmonde, a Territorial Force captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, died in England on the 17th April 1915. He was the Member of Parliament for North Tipperary and the son of James Esmonde. He died, aged 53, from "pneumonia and heart failure consequent on the strain of overwork" and is buried in his family vault in Terryglass RC Churchyard, co Tipperary. A son, Lieutenant Geoffrey Esmonde, was killed in action in 1916, and a second son - Eugene Esmonde - was awarded a posthumous VC in 1942.

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

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