583 British Army officers and men died on this single day in 1915. 8643 Lance-Corporal James McFarland of the 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, was killed in action at Gallipoli on the 18th May 1915. He was born in Cappagh, County Tyrone, and enlisted at Omagh.
James probably enlisted about September 1914 and his medal index card indicates that he arrived in the Balkans on the 17th March 1915. He is buried in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery in Turkey.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (MIC, WO 363)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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