8643 L/Cpl James McFarland, 1st Bn, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

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

6519 L/Cpl Joseph Gullen, 1st Bn, KOSB

6519 Lance-Cpl Joseph Gullen of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, was killed in action on the 26th April 1915. Joseph was 34 years old when he died. He was the husband of Agnes Gordon Gullen of 126, 1st Street East, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Joseph, who had arrived in Egypt as early as the 16th November 1914, is commemorated on a special memorial in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery in Gallipoli, Turkey.

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

2212 Shoeing Smith Oliver William Holness, Royal East Kent Yeomanry

2212 Shoeing Smith Oliver William Holness of the Royal East Kent Yeomanry, was killed in action on the 13th December 1915.

Oliver was living at Herne Bay and enlisted at Broad Oak. That enlistment date was after August 1914 and he arrived overseas in Egypt on the 18th October the following year. He was killed in action in Gallipoli and is buried in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery; a last resting palce he shares with 1133 other identified casualties.

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
Soldiers Died in The Great War