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Marshal Foch’s Tribute to the Irish Soldiers who died in the First World War.

PARIS, FRIDAY, Nov. 9th, 1928

THE Heroic Dead of Ireland have every right to the homage of the living for they proved in some of the heaviest fighting of the world war that the unconquerable spirit of the Irish race— the spirit that has placed them among the world’s greatest soldiers—still lives and is stronger than ever it was.

I had occasions to put to the test the valour of the Irishmen serving in France, and, whether they were Irishmen from the North or the South, or from one party or another, they did not fail me.

Some of the hardest fighting in the terrible days that followed the last offensive of the Germans fell to the Irishmen, and some of their splendid regiments had to endure ordeals that might justly have taxed to breaking-point the capacity of the finest troops in the world.

ON THE SOMME

Never once did the Irish fail me in those terrible days. On the Somme, in 1916, I saw the heroism of the Irishmen of the North and South, I arrived on the scene shortly after the death of that very gallant Irish gentleman, Major William Redmond. I saw Irishmen of the North and the South forget their age-long differences, and fight side by side, giving their lives freely for the common cause.

In war there are times when the necessity for yielding up one’s life is the most urgent duty of the moment, and there were many such moments in our long drawn- out struggle. Those Irish heroes gave their lives freely, and, in honouring then I hope we shall not allow our grief to let us forgot our pride in the glorious heroism of these men.

They have left to those who come after a glorious heritage and an inspiration to duty that will live long after their names are forgotten. France will never forget her debt to the heroic Irish dead, and in the hearts of the French people to-day their memory lives as that of the memory of the heroes of old, preserved in the tales that the old people tell to their children and their children’s children.

A GERMAN TRIBUTE

I know of no better tribute to Irish valour than that paid after the armistice by one of the German High Command, whom I had known in happier days. I asked him if he could tell me when he had first noted the declining moral of his own troops, and he replied that it was after the picked troops under his command had had repeated experience of meeting the dauntless Irish troops who opposed them in the last great push that was expected to separate the British and French armies, and give the enemy their long-sought victory.

The Irishmen had endured such constant attacks that it was thought that they must be utterly demoralised, but always they seemed to find new energy with which to attack their assailants, and in the end the flower of the German Army withered and faded away as an effective force.

“THEY NEVER FAILED”

When the moment came for taking the offensive all along our line, it was these same worn Irish troops that we placed in the van, making call after call on their devotion, but never finding them fail us. In the critical days of the German offensive, when it was necessary that lives should be sacrificed by the thousand to slow down the rush of the enemy, in order that our harassed forces should have time to reform, it was on the Irish that we relied repeatedly to make these desperate stands, and we found them responding always.

Again and again, when the bravest were necessary to delay the enemy’s advance, it was the Irish who were ready and at all times the soldiers of Ireland fought with the rare courage and determination that has always characterised the race on the battlefield.

"WE SHALL NEVER FORGET”

Some of the flower of Irish chivalry rests in the cemeteries that have been reserved in France, and the French people will always have these reminders of the debt that France owes to Irish valour. We shall always see that the graves of these heroes from across the sea are lovingly tended, and we shall try to ensure that the generations that come after us shall never forget the heroic dead of Ireland.

In August 1914 World War 1 began. It pitted Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and other nations against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, France, Russia and their allies. Canada enlisted 625,000 military personnel by 1918. Most served in the Canadian Corps. America declared for the allies and joined the war in April 1917.One in seven died. The war in Europe lasted till the armistice was signed on 11 th hour of the 11 th day of the 11th month, 1918. The war in Russia continued for some time after.

This is our way of showing some recognition  for our fallen kinsmen in the “Great War”.  We will try and make it as comprehensive as possible. Of the 215,000 Irishmen who took part 35,000 did not return.

Were these the last of the "Wild Geese"


    August 1914

6th August

Private I. Kelly, Royal Marine Light Infantry, died August 6, 1914.

 24th August

Private R. O’Kelley, 3/13552, 2nd Bat., South Wales Borderers, died on Tuesday August 24, 1915. He is buried in 11. H. 138 East Mudros Military Cemetery, Lemnos, Greece.

 25th August

Private S. Kelly, 8695, Hampshire Regiment, died on August 25, 1914.

 26th August

Private A. Kelly, 2888, 2nd Bat., Lancashire Fusiliers, died on Wednesday August 26, 1914. He is buried in 1. B. 9 Fontaine-Au-Pire Communal Cemetery, Nord, France.

Private W. Kelly, 793, 2nd Bat., Lancashire Fusiliers, died on Wednesday August 26, 1914. He is buried in 1. Esnes Communal Cemetery, Nord, France.

 
September 1914

September 14th

Private James Kelly, 1888, age 30, No 5 Coy. 1st Bat., Irish Guards, died on Monday September 14, 1914 and is commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France. He was son of Peter and Mary Kelly, 34 Convent Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. He was brother of Private William Kelly, Irish Guards, who died on November 9, 1914 (See Below).

 Private T. A. Kelly, 10547, age 24, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, died on September 14, 1914.

 September 17th

Private Robert Kelly, 9338, 2nd Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Thursday September 17, 1914. He is commemorated on La-Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France.

 September 19th

Private J. H. Kelly, 11175, Border Regiment, died September 19, 1914.

 September 22nd

Private G. Kelly, CH/2399, age 47, Royal Marine Light Infantry, died September 22, 1914.

 Private William Kelly, 2903, 1st Bat., Irish Guards, died on Tuesday September 22, 1914 and is commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et Marne, France.

 September 27th

Private W. Kelley, 13572, age 20, 3rd Bat., Sherwood Foresters (Notts. and Derby Regiment), died on Sunday September 27. He was son of Mary Ann and the late John Kelley, 17 Prior Well Road, Worksop, Notts. He was a native of Ranby, Retford, Notts. He is buried in Church C. 4651 Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, Devon.

 Lance Corporal J. Kelly, 8686, 1st Bat., Royal Scots Fusiliers, died on Sunday September 27, 1914. He is buried in 1. B. 7 Vailly British Cemetery, Aisne, France.

 October 1914

13th October

Private Thomas Kellie, 1990, age 20, 1st Bat., King’s Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment), died on Tuesday October 13, 1914. He was son of Mr and Mrs. James McRae Kellie, Charleston St., Walworth, London. He is commemorated on Panel 2 Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.

 15th October

Private A. J. Kelly, L/9742, age 30, Middlesex Regiment, died on October 15, 1914.

Corporal B. Kelly, 6784, Scots Guards, died on October 26, 1914.

Private P. Kelly, 1402, Royal Scots, died October 15, 1914.

 16th October

Private Denis Kelly, 10732, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died of wounds, on Friday October 16, 1914 and is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery (1 D. 9.), Pas de Calais, France. He was born in St. Marys, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. [See Patrick Kelly, 6674, Leinster Regiment, died on August 31, 1916]. [Bethune Cemetery contains 3,004 Commonwealth burials including 26 men of 1st/8th Manchester Regiment. Bethune was comparatively free from bombardment and remained an important railway and hospital centre as well as corps and divisional headquarters. The 33rd Casualty and Clearing Station were in the town until the end of 1917. In early 1918 Bethune began to suffer from constant shell fire and in April 1918 German forces reached Locon, 5 Km to the north. The bombardment of May 21, 1918 did great damage to the town and it was not until October that pressure from the Germans relaxed. The Commonwealth part of the cemetery was designed by Sir Edward Lutyens.]

 18th October

Private E. Kelly, 9694, ALIAS, died October 18, 1914.

 Private J. Kelly, 6625, 1st Bat., Royal Irish Fusiliers, died on Sunday October 18, 1914 and is buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, Nord, France.

 Private J. Kelly, 5877, age 34, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, died on October 18, 1914.

 19th October

Bandsman David Kelly, 6999, age 29, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died on Monday October 19, 1914 and is commemorated on Menin Gate Merial, Leper (Ypres), Belgium. He was husband of Catherine Kelly, Whitrigg Cottage, Kirkbride, Cumberland, England.

 Private Mark Kelly, 5870, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died on Monday October 19, 1914. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Private Michael Kelly, 5177, age 26, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died on October 19. He was son of Michael and Nora Kelly, Long Lane, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, and was husband of Ellen Kelly, Rackham St., Carrick-on-Suir. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial Pas de Calais.

 Private Michael Kelly, 10711, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died on October 19. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

 Private F. Kelly, 4301, age 23,  Royal Welsh Fusiliers, died on October 19.

 Private Patrick Kelly, 5532, age 40, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died on October 19, 1914. He was son of the late Pat and Bridget Kelly. He served in the Tirah Campaign (1897-8).  He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

 20 th October

Private G. E. Kelly, 10928, ALIAS, died on October 20, 1914.

 Private Joseph Kelly, 7894, 2nd Bat., Leinster Regiment, died on Tuesday October 20, 1914, and is commemorated on panel 10, Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.

 Private Patrick Kelly (served as Considine), 6205, age 35, 2nd Bat., Leinster Regiment, died on Tuesday October 20, 1914 and is commemorated on Ploegsteet Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. He was son of Patrick Kelly of Lifford, Ennis, Co. Clare.

 Private William Kelly, 9846, 2nd Bat., Leinster Regiment, who died on Tuesday October 20, 1914 and is commemorated on Panel 10, Ploegsteet Memorial Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.

 21 st October

Private B. D. Kelly, 10839, 3rd Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died on Wednesday October 21, 1914 and is buried in Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. [St. Omer, a town 45 Km south east of Calais. On October 13, 1914 it became the General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force and remained so until March 1916. Lord Roberts died there in November 1914. It had a considerable hospital centre especially in 1918 and was raided by German planes in November 1917 and May 1918, with serious loss of life.]

 Private Patrick William Kelly, 7591, 2nd Bat., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on Saturday, October 21, 1914, and is commemorated on Panel 5, Ploegsteer Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.

 23 rd October

Lance Corporal A. Kelly, 9127, age 22, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), died October 23, 1914.

 Private James Kelly, 10436, 2nd Bat., Royal Scots Fusiliers, died on Friday October 23, 1914. He is commemorated on Panel 19 and 33 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

 Private Martin Kelly, 4312, age 24, 2nd Bat., Connaught Rangers, killed in action on Friday October 23, 1914 and is commemorated on Panel 42, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Born in Creagh, Ballinasloe, he was son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Kelly, Harbour St., Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. Decoration, Mons Star.

24 th October

Private David Kelly, 9540, 2nd Bat., Royal Scots Fusiliers, died on Saturday October 24, 1914. He is commemorated on Panel 19 and 33 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

 Captain Harry Holdsworth Kelly, age 34, 38th Field Coy., Royal Engineers, died on Saturday October 24, 1914 and is buried in grave VII. B. 32, Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle-D’Armentieres, Nord France. He was son of Lt. Colonel Henry Holdsworth Kelly and Elizabeth Eleanor Kelly (nee Column), 18 St. Andrew’s Road, South Sea. He was brother of the future General Henry Theo Kelly, died 1932, Admiral Sir John D. Kelly, died 1936 and Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, died 1952. He also had very eminent sisters. [See Genealogy of For Admirals and a General] 

 26 th October

Private A. Kelly, Scots Guards, died October 26, 1914.

 Private E. Kelly, 7617, 1st Bat., Royal Irish Fusiliers, died on Monday October 26, 1914 and is buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery (grave IX. A. 42),  Armentiers, Nord France.

 27 th October

Rifleman James Kelly, 6780, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Rifles, died on Tuesday October 27, 1914 and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

 Private J. Kelly, 1854, age 23, King’s Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment, died on October 27, 1914.

 30 th October

Captain E. D. F. Kelly, 1st Life Guards, died on October 30, 1914.

 

November 1914

1 st November

Leading Seaman Arthur Kelly, 211500, age 29, (RFR/PO/IC/16) H.M.S. “Good Hope”, Royal Navy (RN), died  on Sunday November 1, 1914 and is commemorated on Panel 1, Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, England.

  Private Edward Kelly, 8440, age 24, 2nd Bat., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on Sunday, November 1, 1914.

He was son of Matthew and Kathleen Kelly, and husband of Maggie Long Kelly. He is commemorated on Panel 5, Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.

 Cook’s Mate Geoffrey William Kelly, M/2427, H.M.S Monmouth, Royal Navy, died on Sunday, November 1, 1914 and is commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.

 Ordinary Seaman H. Kelly, J/I6674, Royal Navy, died November 1, 1914.

 Stoker 1st Class Thomas Kelly, 302040, (RFR/PO/B/3286), H.M.S. Good Hope, Royal Navy, died  Sunday, on November 1, 1914 and is commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire,  Panel 4.

2 nd November

Private G. Kelly, 8408, East Lancashire Regiment, died November 2, 1914.

 3 rd November

Private Patrick Kelly, 4305, 2nd Bat., Connaught Rangers, died of wounds on Tuesday November 3, 1914 and is buried in grave 1. L. 45 in Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. He was born in Kilclooney, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.

 4 th November

Private Charles Kelly, 8984, 1st Bat., The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), died on Wednesday November 4, 1914. He is commemorated on Panel 4 and 6 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

 Private C. Kelly, 8984, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), died on November 4, 1914.

 5 th November

Private M. Kelly, 9323, age 24, 1st Bat., Connaught Rangers, died on Thursday November 5, 1914 and is buried in grave 111. C. 17, Aubers Ridge British Cemetery, Aubers, Nord France.

6 th November

Private Frances Kelly, 2777, 1st Bat., Irish Guards, died on Friday November 6, 1914 and is commemorated on Pane 11, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial,, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Corporal J. Kelly, 1697, 1st Bat., Irish Guards, died on Friday November 6, 1914 and is buried in Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery (Grave 1. L. 24), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

 Lance Corporal Michael Kelly, 1936, 1st Bat., Irish Guards, died on Friday November 6, 1914 and is commemorated on Panel 11, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

7 th November

Private M. Kelly, 9386, age 25, North Staffordshire Regiment, died on November 7, 1914.

 9 th November

Private P. Kelly, 6303, 1st Bat., Royal Irish Fusiliers, died Monday November, 9, 1914 and is buried in Strand Military Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.

Private Thomas Kelly, 1889, age 32, 1st Bat., Irish Guards, died on Monday November 9, 1914 and is buried in grave 1. L. 17, Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. He was son of Peter and Mary Kelly, 34 Convent Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

He was brother of Private James Kelly, Irish Guards who died on September 14, 1914 (See above).

10 th November

Private J. Kelly, 7274, Cameron’s (Scottish Rifles), died on November 10, 1914.

 11 th November

Lance Corporal Peter Kelly, 9238, 1st Bat., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), died on Wednesday November 11, 1914. He is commemorated on Panel 36 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

 12 th November

Private M. Kelly, 6071, South Staffordshire Regiment, died on November 12, 1914.

 16 th November

Driver J. M. Kelly, T1/2134, age 24, Army Service Corps, died November 16, 1914.

18 th November

Private T. Kelly, 9450, 2nd Bat., Lancashire Fusiliers, died on Wednesday November 18, 1914. He is buried in C. 24 Bailleul Communal Cemetery (Nord), Nord, France.

 21 st November

Private T. Kelly, 7300, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, died on November 21, 1914.

 23 rd November

Lieutenant Colonel G. H. F. Kelly, age 44, 34th Sikh Pioneers, died November 23, 1914.

 Private Joseph Kelly, 3/9283, 2nd Bat., Durham Light Infantry, died on Monday, November 23, 1914, and is commemorated on panel 8 and 9, Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.

 26 th November

Able Seaman Joseph Kelly, 230985, H.M.S. Bulwark, Royal Navy, died on Thursday, November 26, 1914. He was brother of Mrs Mary Ann Clough, 10 Charlton Street, Collyhurst St., Rochdale Rd., Manchester. He is commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, Panel 2.

 Private Patrick Kelly, 10273, age 21, 1st Bat., Connaught Rangers, died on Monday November 23, 1914 and is buried in Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt, Pas de Calais, France. He was son of John and Hannagh (nee O’Brien) Kelly, 9 Blarney St., Cork.

December 1914

December 8 th

Private Samuel Kelley, PO/3793, age 45, H.M.S. “Kent”, Royal Marine Light Infantry, died on Tuesday December 8, 1914. He was husband of Kate E. Kelly, 62 Chevening Road, Kensal Rise, London. He was buried in grave 783 Stanley Cemetery, Falkland Islands.

18 th December

Private D. Kelly, 9437, age 46, Scots Guards, died on December 18, 1914.

December 19 th

Private Francis Kelly, 11329, age 26, 1st Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Saturday December 19, 1914. He was son of Michael and Janette Kelly (née Irving), 34 Parkhead Rows, Bellshill, Lanarkshire. He is commemorated on Panel 37 and 38, Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Private J. Kelly, 10261, 1st Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Saturday December 19, 1914. He is buried in IV. F. 19, Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, Pas de Calais, France.
 
December 21 st

Private John Kelly, 11934, 1st Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Monday December 21, 1914. He is commemorated on Panel 37 and 38 Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

December 22 nd

Private Arthur Kelley, 11087, 1st Bat., Coldstream Guards, died on Tuesday December 22, 1914. He was son of William H. Kelley of 3 Barby Rd., Rugby. He is commemorated on Panel 2 and 3 Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

December 25 th - Christmas Day.

Sergeant Thomas Kelly, 3096, age 37, 3rd Bat., Connaught Rangers, died of wounds, at home, on Friday, December 25, 1914, and is buried in Ballinasloe (Creagh) New Cemetery, Co. Galway. Born in Kilclooney, Ballinasloe. Awarded the 1914 star. Enlisted in Oranmore. Was formerly of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

                                                                          1915

January 1915.

 Jan 1 st

Stoker John Kelly, 1966T, age 34, Royal Naval Reserve, died on January, 1, 1915. He is commemorated on Chatham Naval Memorial, ref., 14.

Son of Patrick and Catherine Misset Kelly, of Hartlepool.

 Jan 4 th

Lance Corporal T. Kelly, 5904, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died on January 4, 1915. He is buried in Mon's Communal Cemetery, Hainaut, Belgium.

Jan 13 th

Seaman A. Kelly, 874X, age 24, Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve, died January 13, 1915.

 Jan 14 th

Private M. Kelly, 11167, Cameron’s (Scottish Rifles), died on January 14, 1915.

Private Michael Kelly, 3800, age 24, 1st Bat., Irish Guards, died on Thursday January 14, 1915 and is buried in Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery (Grave V. G. 31), La Gorgue, Nord France. He was son of Mrs Johanna Kelly, 7 Keeffe St., Athlone, Co. Westmeath.

 Jan 16 th

Private J. Kelly, 8152, 1st Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Saturday January 16, 1915. He is buried in V. B. 5. Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorguen, Nord, France.

Jan 17 th

Private R. Kelly, 13888, age 48, South Wales Borderers, died on January 17, 1915.

Jan 27 th

Private John Kelly, 9356, Scots Guards, died on January 25, 1915. Commemorated on Panel 3 & 4 Le Touret Memorial. The Memorial in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, is one of those erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to record the names of the officers and men who fell in the Great War and whose graves are not known. It serves the area enclosed on the North by the river Lys and a line drawn from Estaires to Fournes, and on the South by the old Southern boundary of the First Army about Grenay; and it covers the period from the arrival of the II Corps in Flanders in 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos. It does not include the names of officers and men of Canadian or Indian regiments; they are found on the Memorials at Vimy and Neuve-Chapelle. No. of Identified Casualties: 13369

Private G. R. Kelly, S/39, age 34, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), died on January 27, 1915.

 Jan 29 th

Private P. Kelly, 10115, 2nd Bat., Royal Munster Fusiliers, died on Friday January 29, 1915 and is buried in Chocques Military Cemetery (Grave 1. A. 9), Pas de Calais, France.

 

February 1915

Feb 4 th

Corporal J. Kelly, 6846, age 32, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, died on February 4, 1915.

Son of Samuel and Margaret Kelly, of 30A, Queen Anne St., Liverpool. Buried in B. 4.

Bois-Grenier remained in British hands, though close to the front line, from October 1914 to April 1918, and the earliest British burials were made in the Communal Cemetery. There are now 121 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war commemorated in this site. Of these, 8 are unidentified; three in Row K, were brought in after the Armistice, from the North side of the village. There are also 4 unidentified French burials here. The British plots cover an area of 431 square meters. No. of Identified Casualties: 113

 Feb 11 th

Lance Corporal Francis Kelly, 8952, age 33, 1st Bat., Leinster Regiment, died on Thursday February 11, 1915 and is buried in grave 5, Dickebush Old Military Cemetery, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.  He was son of Francis and Nellie Kelly, Water Lane, Granard, Co. Longford.

Feb 14 th

Private Patrick Kelly, 3422, age 23, 1st Bat., Leinster Regiment, died on Sunday February 14, 1915 and is commemorated on Panel 44 on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West- Vlaanderen, Belgium. He was son of William and Rose Kelly, Edenderry, King’s County (Co. Offaly).

Feb 16 th

Rifleman A. G. Kelly, 3044, age 35, 3rd Bat., Rifle Brigade, died on Tuesday February 16, 1915. He was son of Thomas Kelly and served in the South African Campaign. He is buried in K. 12. 10 Portsmouth (Eastney or Highland Road) Cemetery, Hampshire.  

Private H. Kelly, 4945, age 18,  Border Regiment, died on February 16, 1915.

Feb 20 th

Seaman J. Kelly, 3854/A, Royal Naval Reserve, died on February 20, 1915. He is buried in grave S. D. 434 Ardrosan Cemetery. He was on HMS “Thorn”.

Private A. Kelly, 9401, King’s Own (Lancashire Regiment), died February 20, 1915.

Airman 1st Class Robert Edward Kelly, 464, age 27, 4th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, died on Sunday February 20, 1915 and is buried in 1. A. 42 in Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas de Calais. He was son of Edward and Lucy Kelly, 35 Seafort Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin.

Feb 21 st

Private G. Kelly, 9231, 1st Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Sunday February 21, 1915. He is buried in 11. F. 5 Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L’Avoue, Pas de Calais, France.

Feb 22 nd

Private J. Kelly, 10915, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Fusiliers, died on Monday February 22, 1915, and is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery, (Nord) (Grave J. 4), Nord France.

 Feb 23 rd

Private E. Kelly, 2418, age 23, King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), died on February 23, 1915.

Feb 25 th

Private John Joseph Kelly, 4876, age 26, 1st Bat., Irish Guards, died on Thursday February 25, 1915 and is buried in Grave IV. A. 28 Bethune Town Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. He was brother of James Kelly, 67 St. Columb’s Wells, Derry.

 March 1915

March 1 st 1915

Rifleman J. Kelly, 10399, age 20, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Rifles, died on Monday, March 1, 1915, son of William Kelly, 3 Frederick Lane, Belfast, and is buried in Loker Churchyard, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

March 3 rd

Private T. Kelly, SS/5236, Army Service Corps, died on March 3, 1915.

 March 4 th

Private D. Kelly, 8104, Yorkshire Regiment, died on March 4, 1915.

 March 10 th

Private H. Kelly, 13901, Cameron’s (Scottish Rifles), died on March 10, 1915.

March 11 th

Fireman J. Kelly, Mercantile Marine Reserve, died on March 11, 1915.

Private J. Kelly, S/8140, age 43, Gordon Highlanders, died on March 11, 1915.

Petty Officer John Mathias Kelly, 1898D, age 34, Royal Naval Reserve, died on March 11, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 10 Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Was on the HMS “Bayano”.

Son of Matthias Kelly, of Peel, Isle of Man; husband of Lena McCall Beattie Alexander (formerly Kelly), of 40, Dalmarnock Rd., Glasgow.

March 13 th

Rifleman James Kelly, 9813, 1st Bn., Royal Irish Rifles, died on Saturday, March 13, 1915, and is buried in Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. [He with seven of his R.I.R colleagues died that day]

March 14 th

Rifleman James Kelly, 5287, 2nd Bat., Rifle Brigade, died on Sunday March 14, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 44 Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Private H. J. Kelly, G/6343, Middlesex Regiment, died on March 14, 1915.

Rifleman Joseph Kelly, Z/963, age 28, 2nd Bat., Rifle Brigade, died on Sunday March 14, 1915. He was husband of Ellen Kelly, 54 Cannon St., Salford, Manchester. He is commemorated on Panel 44 Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

March 15 th

 

Private Denis Kelly. 8104. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 14 March 1915.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Buried ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY.
(Not shown on the Middlesbrough War Memorial)

 

Private J. Kelly, 8337, 1st Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Monday March 15, 1915. He is buried in 1. A. 59, Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

Private W. M. Kelly, 1943, age 25, 2nd Bat., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), died on Monday March 15, 1915. He was son of Samuel Kelly, 29 South Wellington St., Dundee. He is buried in 1. A. 48 Chocques Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

 Private Edward Kelly, 10270, age 23, 1st Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died on Monday March 15, 1915 and is commemorated on Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, leper, Belgium. He was son of Edward and Rose Kelly, 135 Townsend St., Dublin.

March 16 th

Private M. Kelly, 8862, age 25, Northamptonshire Regiment, died on March 16. Buried in grave III. H. 3. Estaires Communal Cemetery and Extension.

Son of Sarah E. Waywood (formerly Kelly), of 418, Gladstone St., Peterborough, and the late M. Kelly. Born at Ramsey, Hunts.

Estaires is a town and commune in the Department of the Nord, about 11 kilometers west of Armentieres. The Cemetery is on the eastern outskirts of the town and on the east side of the road to Bailleul.

The town was occupied by French cavalry on the 15th October, 1914, and passed at once into British hands. On the 10th April, 1918 it was captured by the enemy, after an obstinate defence by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division; and it was finally retaken by British troops at the beginning of September, 1918. The town was a Field Ambulance centre as early as November, 1914, and later the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station was posted in it. It was later "adopted" by the County Borough of Plymouth. Estaires Communal Cemetery was used for British burials from the early days of November, 1914 to June, 1917, and two burials of September, 1918 are in Plot II, Row P. Estaires Communal Cemetery Extension was used from April, 1917 to April, 1918, and again in September-November, 1918. The Plots are numbered IV and V, in continuation of the numbering for the Communal Cemetery. The Portuguese graves of June-August, 1917 and two French graves were removed after the Armistice. A German Plot of 63 graves, made on the North side during the enemy occupation in 1918, has been removed. There are a total of 875 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war here, 63 of which are unidentified. There are 9 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-45 War, killed during the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force to Dunkirk at the end of May 1940. There are also 14 Non Commonwealth burials in C.W.G.C. care. The five Plots cover an area of 3,336 square meters. No. of Identified Casualties: 835

March 25 th

Lance Corporal A. Kelly, 1454, age 26, Army Cyclist Corps, died March 25, 1915.

March 27 th

Stoker 1st Class W. L. Kelley, K/9685, age 22, Royal Navy, died on March 27, 1915.

March 31 st

Sergeant James Patrick Kelly, 8173, age 32, 1st Bat., Royal Irish Fusiliers, died on Wednesday March 31, 1915 and is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery (Grave 111. D. 72), Pas de Calais. He was son of Patrick and Jane Kelly.

 April 1915

April 1 st 1915

Private M. Kelly, S/2421, Argyll and Southern Highlanders, died on April 1, 1915. Buried in grave R. 306 Aldershot Military Cemetery.

During both wars, numerous regimental and corps depots were based in and around Aldershot. At the outbreak of The First World War, it was the headquarters of the Aldershot Command and of the 1st and 2nd Divisions, and the Depot of the Royal Army Medical Corps. The North and South Camps, divided by the Basingstoke Canal, remained in full activity throughout the War. During the Second World War, some 400,000 Canadian servicemen were trained there. Aldershot Military Cemetery is a permanent military cemetery, the property of the Ministry of Defence. The Commission is responsible for the care of graves of both world wars within the cemetery. There are 690 First World War graves in the cemetery, the earliest bears the date 5th August 1914, and the latest 11th August 1921. Many of these graves are in plot AF. The 129 Second World War graves are in groups in various plots, the largest group in plot A containing 86 graves. No. of Identified Casualties: 855

April 2 nd

Private E. H. Kelly, East Surrey Regiment, died April 2, 1915.

April 9 th

Stoker 2nd Class S. Kelly, K/23437,age 22, H.M.S. Magpie, Royal Navy, died on Friday, April 9, 1915. He is buried in Stoke-on-Trent (Tunstall) Cemetery, Staffordshire. GG. R.C. 14.

April 17 th

Private J. Kelly, 9834, 1st Bat., Cheshire Regiment, died on Saturday, April 17, 1915. He is buried in Tuileries British Cemetery, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

April 19 th

Private M. Kelly, 9558, age 24, Leinster Regiment, died on died on April 19, 1915.

[In Biographical Dictionary of Tipperary by Martin O’Dwyer (1999), he refers to Private Martin Kelly, 16667, 1st Leinster Regiment, killed in action in France, April 19, 1915 who was born in Kilcommon, Co. Tipperary].

Second Lieutenant Esmonde Lawrence Kellie, age 20, Bedfordshire Regiment, died on Monday April 19, 1915. He was son of Lawrence and Gertrude Kellie, 191 Potsdown Road, Maida Vale, London. He is commemorated on Panel 31 and 33 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

April 22 nd

Private Alfred Edward Kelly, 8113, age 38, Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), died on Thursday April 22, 1915. He was son of Mathew Kelly. He is commemorated on Panel 10 - 26 - 28 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

April 23 rd

Private Thomas Kelly, 10665, age 25, 4th Bat., Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Reg.), died on Friday April 23, 1915. He was son of Thomas H. Kelly. He is commemorated on Panel 18 -24 -26 - 30 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Private T. E. Kelly, 10665, age 25, Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), died on April 23, 1915.

April 24 th

Major E. T. Kelly, 4th Bat., Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), died on Saturday April 24, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30 Ypres (Menin Gate), Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

 Private P. Kelly, 24955, age 32, 13th Bat., Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment), died on Saturday April 24, 1915. He was son of the late Peter and Ciss Kelly, Zion House, Mallow, Co. Cork. He is commemorated on Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

 April 25 th

Second Lieutenant George Edward Eccleston. Kelly, 2nd Bat., Australian Infantry, A.I.F., died on April 25, 1915, and is commemorated on Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

Private Frank Kelly, 1384, 1st Bat.,  Lancashire Fusiliers, died on Sunday April 25, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 58 to 72 or 218 to 219 Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Private Lawrence Kelly, 10167, age 23, 1st Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Sunday April 25, 1915 and is commemorated on V. Beach Cemetery (Special Memorial B. 10), Turkey. He was son of James Kelly and his wife Kate Lawlor, Chapel Hill, Athy, Co. Kildare.

Private William Kelly, 132, 10th Bat., Australian Infantry, died on April 25, 1915, and is commemorated on Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

Private R. Kelly, 7095, age 33, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, died on April 25, 1915.

April 26 th

Lance Corporal Patrick Francis Kelly, 16757, 2nd Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Monday April 26, 1915 and is commemorated on Menin Gate Memorial (Panel 44 and 46), Leper (Ypres), Belgium.

Sergeant Michael Kelly, 3434, age 27, Royal Irish Regiment, died on April 26, 1915. He was son of the late Joseph and Mary Kelly, Kilkenny, and husband of Bridget West (formerly Kelly, nee Saunders), Maudlin St., Kilkenny. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

Rifleman William Edward Kelly, 3402, 1st Bat., Rifle Brigade, died on Monday April 26, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 46 - 48 and 50 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

April 27 th

Second Lieutenant P. E. Kelly, age 23, Middlesex Regiment, died on April 27, 1915.

Private Ernest Kelly, 1250, 5th Bat., Australian Infantry, A.I.F., died on April 27, 1915, and is commemorated on Lone Pine, Memorial, Turkey.

April 28 th

Rifleman T. W. Kelly, 2259, age 24, Monmouthshire Regiment, died on April 28, 1915.

April 29 th

Private J. Kelly, 3558, age 23, 2nd Bat., Manchester Regiment, died on Thursday April 29, 1915 and is buried in Divisional Cemetery, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. He as husband of Mrs Ellen McLoughlin (formerly Kelly), 39 Duncan Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.

April 30 th

Private Michael Kelly, 7851, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on April 30, 1915. Commemorated on the Special Memorial, V Beach Memorial.

The Anzac and Sulva cemeteries are first signposted from the left hand junction of the Eceabat - Bigali Road. From this junction you travel into the main Anzac area. Follow the road to Helles opposite the Kabatepe Museum. After 14.2 km's, take a right turn at the 'T' junction and after 14.3 km's take the left fork. After a total of 23.8 km's you will find a short track to the cemetery which is on the beach. The Cemetery is at the bottom of the grassy slope that rises to the cliff edge between Sedd el Bahr village and Cape Helles.

Private Patrick Kelly, 11056, age 22, 1st Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Friday April 30, 1915 and is commemorated on Helles Memorial (Panel 190-196), Turkey. He was son of Peter and Bridget Kelly, Kilmurry, Kilbride, Co. Wicklow.

 Private James Kelly, 7161, age 40, 1st Bat., Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment), died on Friday April 30, 1915. He was son of William and Mary Kelly and husband of Mary Lilian Todd (formerly Kelly), 70 St. Catherine’s St., St. Thomas, Ontario. He is commemorated on Panel 10 - 26 - 28 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Private Joseph Kelly, 9372, 1st Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Friday April 30, 1915 and is commemorated on Special Memorial B. 9., V Beach Cemetery, Turkey.

Captain E. D. F. Kelly, 1st Life Guards, died April 30, 1915.

 May 1915

 MAY 1915

Lance Corporal Patrick F. Kelly, from Liverpool, of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was killed in action at St. Julien. He is commemorated on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.

May 3rd

Private Owen Kelly, 6273, age 40, 2nd Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Monday May 3, 1915 from wounds received at St. Julien. He is buried in Le Treport Military Cemetery (Plot 2. Row B. Grave 5.), Seine-Marime, France. He was son of Owen and Ellen Kelly, Dublin.

May 4th

Private P. Kelly, 13172, age 34, York and Lancaster Regiment, died on May 4, 1915.

Private James Kelly, 3330, age 19, 10th Bat., The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), died on Tuesday May 4, 1915. He was son of James Davenport Kelly and Annie Francis Kelly, 74 Saxony Rd., Kensington, Liverpool. He is buried in1. D. 8  Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, (Nord), Nord, France. [See Rev. James Davenport Kelly, 1912 (2) and 1950 (4)? Relationship]

Lance Corporal John Sullivan Kelly, 10277, age 21, Leinster Regiment, died on Tuesday May 4, 1915, and is commemorated in the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. He was son of Patrick and Anne Kelly, Boughton, Chester, England.

May 5th

Private M. J. Kelly, 1483, Australian Infantry, A.I.F., died on May 5, 1915.

Private N. Kelly, 10389, age 38, 1st Bat., Cheshire Regiment, died on Wednesday, May 5, 1915. He was son of John and Rachel Kelly, 11 Stafford St., Dublin. He had served in the South African campaign. He is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), France.

Private Charles Patrick Kelly, CH/10360, age 41, Royal Marine Light Infantry, died on May 5, 1915. Commemorated on Panel 13, Chatam Naval Memorial, London. Husband of Rosa Kelly, of 43, Ashbury Rd., Battersea, London

Private D. Kelly, 11967, age 33, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), died on May 5, 1915.

May 6 th

Private C. Kelly, 3434, age 25, 2nd Bat., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on Thursday, May 6, 1915. He was son of Michael McAnaw Kelly and Mary Jane Kelly, and husband of Madge McAnaw Kelly, Lettermore, Drumkeen, Stranorlar Co. Donegal. He is buried in 11. C. 3, Cluinchy Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

Private L. Kelly, 11883, age 24, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), died on Monday May 6, 1915 and is buried in Ypres Town Cemetery Extension, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. He was son of Anne Kelly, 77 Silver St., Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, and the late Timothy Kelly.

Lance Corporal Mathew Kelly, 10999, age 21, 1st Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Thursday May 6, 1915 and is commemorated on Helles Memorial (Panel 190-196), Turkey. He was son of Patrick and Elizabeth Kelly, Hazelbrook Cottage, Malahide.

 May 7 th

Fireman T. Kelly, age 26, Mercantile Marine, died on May 7, 1915.

Trimmer T. E. Kelly, age 20, Mercantile Marine, died on May 7, 1915.

Waiter Alfred Aloysius Kelly, age 20, Mercantile Marine, died May 7, 1915. Commemorated on Tower Hill Memorial, London. On board the SS “Lusitania” torpedoed off Kinsale, Co. Cork.

Son of John Kelly, of 97, Juvenal St. Dwellings, Liverpool, and the late Elizabeth Kelly. He was born at Seaforth.

Sergeant James Kelly, 6176, age 33, 2nd Bat., East Yorkshire Regiment, brother-in-law of Mrs E. Dobbin, 12 Ferguson’s Lane, English St., Carlisle, died on May 7, 1915, and is commemorated on plate 21 and 31, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West - Vlaanderens, Belgium.

Fireman John Kelly, age 36, Mercantile Marine, died on May 7, 1915. He is commemorated on Tower Hill Memorial, London. He was a seaman on the SS “Lusitania”, sunk by a German submarine off Kinsale, Co. Cork. Son of Margaret and the late John Kelly, of 53, Latham St., Stanley Rd., Kirkdale, Liverpool. Born at Govan, Glasgow.

Yeoman of Signals Fitzgerald Wilkinson Kelly, 204918, age 32, H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, Royal Navy, died on Friday, May 7, 1915. He was husband of Hilda Phyllis Kelly, 53 Timpson Road, Church Road, Portsmouth. He is commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire. Panel 8.

Fifth Engineer Officer S. C. Kelly, age 27, Mercantile Marine, died on May 7, 1915.

 May 8 th

Private M. Kelly, 51285, Princess Patrica’s Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), died on May 8, 1915.

 Private John Kelly, 2403, 4th Bat., East Yorkshire Regiment, husband of Florence Alice Bunham (formerly Kelly), 13 Ivy Grove, Pullman St., Springbank West, Hull, died on Saturday, May 8, 1915, and is buried in Hazerbrouck Communal Cemetery, Nord, France. Hazerbrouck is 56 Km., south-east of Calais.

Private Joseph Kelly, 10764, age 44, 2nd Bat., Cheshire Regiment, died on Saturday, May 8, 1915. He was son of the late Patrick and Jessie Kelly. He is commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderens, Belgium.

Corporal James Kelly, 8761, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, died on May 8, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 47, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, Belgium.

Private John Kelly, 1601, age 34, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (Easter Ontario Regiment), died on May 8, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 10, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Son of John Kelly, of 9, Riversdale St., Belfast, Ireland.

May 9 th

Private John Kelly, 4651, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, died on May 9, 1915. He is commemorated Panel 27 & 28 Le Touret Memorial

Le Touret Memorial is located at the east end of Le Touret Military Cemetery, on the south side of the Bethune-Armentieres main road. From Bethune follow the signs for Armentieres until you are on the D171. Continue on this road through Essars and Le Touret village. Approximately 1 kilometer after Le Touret village and about 5 kilometres before you reach the intersection with the D947, Estaires to La Bassee road, the Cemetery lies on the right hand side of the road.

Rifleman Edward Kelly, 771, 1st Bat., Royal Irish Rifles, died on Sunday May 9, 1915 and is commemorated on panel 9, Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. [186 members of the R.I.R., killed on May 15, 1915]

Private G. Kelly, S/2406, Seaforth Highlanders, died on May 9, 1915.

May 10 th

Private Aidan Kelly, from Dublin, 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, ‘The Old Toughs’, was killed in action on May 10, 1915 near Wieltje,  France, His name is inscribed on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

Private J. Kelley, S/5030, 2nd Bat., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), died on Monday May 10, 1915. He is buried in XVII. A. 8 Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas de Calais, France.

Private Aiden Kelly, 8032,  2nd Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Monday May 10, 1915 and is commemorated on panel 44 and 46 on Menin Gate Memorial , Ypres, Leper, Belgium.

 Private T. Kelly, 17577, age 17, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Fusiliers, died on Monday May 10, 1915, and is buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery (Grave XVII. A. 16), Leper (Ypres), Belgium. He was son of Robert Millar Kelly, and Elizabeth Kelly, 89 Sunnybank St., Bridgeton, Glasgow.

Private Joseph Fleming Kelly, S/5030, age 23, 2nd Bat., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), died on Monday May 10, 1915. He was husband of Jessie Bradley (formerly Reilly), 10 Silver St., Kincardie, Fife, Scotland. He is commemorated on Panels 24 to 26 Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

 May 11 th

Private H. Kelly, 12020, age 30, Middlesex Regiment, died on May 11, 1915.

May 12 th

Lance Sergeant Joseph Kelly, 8697, age 30, ALIAS, died on May 12, 1915. He is commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. No Panel given.

See "BROPHY," the true family name

May 13 th

Stoker 1st Class Joseph Kelly, 284755, age 37, H.M.S. Goliath, Royal Navy, died on Thursday, May 13, 1915. He was son of Richard and Jane Kelly, Lanreagh, Cornwall. He is commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial, on panel 6.

Stoker 1st Class David Joseph Kelly, SS/107070, (RFD/DEV/B/5713), H.M.S. Goliath, Royal Navy, died on Thursday May 13, 1915. He is commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon, Pane 6.

Able Seaman Michael Kelly, 99942, H.M.S. “Goliath”, Royal Navy, died on Thursday, May 13, 1915. He was husband of Catherine Kelly, 39 Chapel St., Aberdeen and was a native of Plymouth. He is commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon, Panel S.

May 15 th

Lance Corporal M. Kelly, 1723, age 65, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on May 15, 1915.

May 16 th

Private Michael Kelly, 4218, age 20, 2nd Bat., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on Sunday, May 16, 1915. He was son of Pat and Susan Kelly, Derryherk, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. He is commemorated on Panel 16 and 17 Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Private Hugh Kelly, 4685, 2nd Bat., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on Sunday, May 16, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 16 and 17, Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais.

Private James Kelly, 9389, 2nd Bat., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on Sunday, May 16, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 16 and 17 Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Private Michael Kelly, 10160, 1st Bat., The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), died on Sunday May 16, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 6 to 8 Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

May 17 th

Sergeant Peter Kelly, 1408, 2nd Bat., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), died on Monday May 17, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 24 to 28 Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Private James Kelly, 128, 1st Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Monday May 17, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 27 and 38 Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

May 18 th

Lance Corporal James Kelly, 5346, age 22, 1st Bat., Irish Guards, died on Tuesday May 18, 1915 and is commemorated on panel 4, Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. He was son of Thomas and Catherine Agnes Kelly, Cloonfad, Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon.

Private M. J. Kelly, 1657, Australian Infantry, A.I.F., died on May 18, 1915.

Sergeant E. Kelly, 7398, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, died on May 18, 1915.

Private J. F. Kelly, 10781, age 22, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, died on May 18, 1915.

Captain Henry Arundel de Pentheny O’Kelly, age 45, 18th (Queen Mary’s Own) Hussars, died on Tuesday May 18, 1915. He was son of Lt. Col. De Pentheny O’Kelly, La Retraite, Weston-Super-Mare. He served in the South African Campaign. He is buried in 1. D. 5 Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. [See Peter de Pentheny O’Kelly, Barretstown House, Co. Kildare in Annals of O’Kellys 1858 (2)]

May 20 th

Burgher J. Kelly, 63, Mounted Commandos South African Forces, died on May 20, 1915. He is buried in Usakos Cemetery, Namibia. The cemetery, which is owned by the municipality, is situated on the outskirts of town. Follow the main road in the direction of Karibib, turn right at the abattoir, and the cemetery is 0.5 km further on.

The eight war graves were brought in after the armistice. No. of Identified Casualties: 11

May 22 nd

Private R. O. Kelly, 9258, age 33, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, died on May 22, 1915.

May 23 rd

Private J. Kelly, 3636, age 20, Leinster Regiment, son of John and Mary Kelly, 4 Chapel Lane, Athy, Co. Kildare died on Sunday May 23, 1915, and is buried in Netley Military Cemetery, Hampshire, England.

May 24 th

Gunner A. Kelly, 339, Royal Garrison Artillery, died on May 24, 1915.

Private Thomas Kelly, 5943, 2nd Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died on May 24, 1915. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

 May 25 th

Private P. Kelly, 5702, 3rd Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Tuesday May 25, 1915 and is buried in Bailleul Community Cemetery Extension (Nord) (Grave 1. F. 106), Nord France.

Private Patrick Kelly, of Dublin, a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on May 25, 1915, of wounds and gas poising received at Mouse Trap Farm, Belgium, and is buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery.

 Lance Corporal E. Kelly, 12504, Royal Scots Fusiliers, died on May 25, 1915

 Private John Kelly, 10311, age 21, 1st Bat., Connaught Rangers, died of wounds on Tuesday, May 25, 1915, and is buried in Cabaret-Rouge Cemetery, Souchez, (3.5 Km north of Arras, on the main road to Bethune), Pas de Calais, France. He enlisted in Galway. John was born in Cummer, Tuam, Co. Galway.

May 27 th

Assistant Steward J. Kelly, 764661, age 26, Mercantile Marine Reserve, died on May 27, 1915.

May 28 th

Lance Corporal E. Kelly, 12504, 9th Bat., Royal Scots Fusiliers, died on Friday May 28, 1915. He is buried in A. 119, Dundonald (Shewalton) Cemetery, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Private P. J. Kelly, 2339, Coldstream Guards, died on May 28, 1915.

May 29 th

Drummer Henry Stewart Ullyett Kelly, 1674, age 20, 1st/7th Bat., Manchester Regiment, died on Saturday May 29, 1915 and is buried in Redoubt Cemetery, Helles, Turkey. He was son of William Henry and Mary Kelly (nee Stewart), 8 Mackworth St., Bangor Street, Stretford Road, Hulme, Manchester.

Private Patrick Kelly, 12654, 1st Bat., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on Saturday, May 29, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 97 to 101, Helles Memorial, Turkey.

May 31 st

Lance Corporal Charles Oswald Kelly, 868, 4th Bat.,  Australian Infantry A.I.F., son of Joseph and Emma Kelly, 5 Leichhardt St., Glebe, N.S.W., died on May 31, 1915, and is commemorated in Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

 Some background

 An eight month campaign was fought in Gallipoli, Turkey, by the British Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock on the Western Front in France and Belgium and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on April 25-26, 1915, the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north at GABA Tepe on the west coast.

 On April 28, 1915 following the landings at Helles, the first attack was mounted towards Achi Baba, the ridge that dominated the southern part of the peninsula. Fatigue soon brought the assault to a halt some kilometres short of the objective, near the village of Krithia. Turkish counter attacks followed but were repulsed and during the period 6th to the 8th of May, the 29th Division and French Divisions, reinforced by the Australian and New Zealand Brigades, carried out renewed attacks on Krithia making some gains but suffering heavy casualties. Between May 1 and the beginning of June, the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade and the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division landed on the peninsula. With these reinforcements, the Allied Forces at Helles pushed forward once more on June 4, but once more with little effect. A further attack on June 28 and July 5 at Gully Ravine inflicted heavy casualties on the Turks, but despite local gains there was no breakthrough. By July 13, the advance at Helles was effectively over and the position remained unchanged until the evacuation in January 1916. There are 2,027 servicemen buried or commemorated in Redoubt Cemetery so called because of a chain of Forts built by the Turks across the southern end of the peninsula. 1393 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate 349 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. As can be seen later many Kellys were among the dead.

A large number of British, Australian, New Zealand soldiers took part in the war this year in Gallipoli. The “British” contingent included many Irish who were not British but at that time belonged to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland took part in this bloody campaign. Included in the Australian, New Zealand and “British” were many Kellys. As will be seen below many Kellys fought and many died, in what was one of the bloodiest chapters in the war, the invasion of attempt in Gallipoli, to force the Turks out of the war. The campaign was to prove a failure. [ In a letter to the Irish Times commenting on an article by Kevin Myers, Gerard Morgan FTCD, wrote Kevin Myers tribute to Alex Maskey (1st Sinn Fein Mayor of Belfast) in commemorating the Irish dead of the Somme (including no doubt the Tyneside Irish Brigade wiped out in advance on Contalmaison) is fitting and well-timed (An Irishman’s Diary, July 16th). But the time is surely also at hand for the British Government (and perhaps also the Australian and New Zealand governments) to display a similar generosity by acknowledging in some suitable fashion the heroism of the Irish dead at Gallipoli.

The assault on Gallipoli was spearheaded by 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers and the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers of the 29th Division, and they were annihilated at Cape Helles on V Beach, on the collier the River Clyde and in the village and castle of Sedd-el-Bahr on April 25th and 26th 1915. The Times History of the War (London 1915) records that “the glorious annals of British Army present no example of a position carried against more dreadful odds”.

Even more disastrous from Irelands point of view was the destruction of the 10th (Irish) Division of Kitchener’s First New Army at Suvla Bay in August and September 1915.

With the tragic and monumental sacrifice of Irish youth men (mostly well educated); the cause of Irish Home Rule and peace in Ireland was doomed.”]

 June 1915

June 3 rd 1915

Private Stephen Kelly, 1476, age 20, 1st/8th Bat., Lancashire Regiment, died on Thursday June 3, 1915. He was son of Charles and Margaret Ann Kelly, 60 Greengate, Salford, Manchester. He is commemorated on Panel 58 to 72 or 218 to 219 Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Private James Kelly, 1663, 1st/10th Bat., Manchester Regiment, died on Friday June 4, 1915 and is commemorated on Helles Memorial, Turkey. The obelisk stands on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula.

June 4 th

Able Seaman P. J. Kelly, Mersey Z/235, age 18, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, died on June 4, 1915.

 Private Eugene Daniel Kelly, 2389, age 20, 1st/5th Bat., Manchester Regiment, died on Friday June 4, 1915 and is buried in Redoubt Cemetery, Helles, Turkey. He was son of Daniel and Jane Kelly, 6 Springfield St., Wigan, Lancashire. [See 1915 (16) above].

Private John Kelly, 2026, age 20, 1st/7th Bat., Manchester Regiment, died on Friday June 4, 1915 and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey. The obelisk is situated on the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula. He was son of Mrs Annie Kelly, 33 Clifford St., Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester.

Private Thomas Kelly, 2065, age 27, 1st/5th Bat., Lancashire Fusiliers, died on Friday June 4, 1915. He was son of the late Thomas and Rachel Kelly and husband of Florence Hulton (formerly Kelly) Claremont Lodge, Tottington, Bury. He is commemorated on Panel 58 to 72 or 218 to 219 Helles Memorial, Turkey.

 June 5 th

Private Thomas Kelly, 1194, age 21, “D” Coy. 1st/5th Bat., Manchester Regiment, died on Saturday June 5, 1915 and is commemorated on Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 158-170). The memorial is at the tip of the Gallipolli Peninsula and takes the form of an obelisk over 30 meters high and can be seen by ships passing through the Dardanelles. He was son of Edward and Jane Kelly, 35 Kay’s House, Wigan, Lancashire.

June 6 th

Private H. Kelly, 5627, 2nd Bn., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Sunday June 6, 1915, buried in Roeselare Communal Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium (20 Km. North east of Leper town centre).

Private J. Kelly, 2203, 8th Bat., Manchester Regiment, died on Sunday June 6, 1915 and is buried in Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey (1 Kmwest of Sedd el Bahr village. It stands on a small ridge named Karaja Oghul Tepe, 110 meters above the sea and overlooking “W” Beach).

Private John Kelly, L/14853, Royal Fusiliers, died on June 6, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 37 to 41 or 328 Helles Memorial. The Helles Memorial stands on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula. It takes the form of an obelisk over 30 meters high that can be seen by ships passing through the Dardanelles.

The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts. However, the difficult terrain and stiff Turkish resistance soon led to the stalemate of trench warfare. From the end of August, no further serious action was fought and the lines remained unchanged. The peninsula was successfully evacuated in December and early January 1916. The Helles Memorial serves the dual function of Commonwealth battle memorial for the whole Gallipoli campaign and place of commemoration for many of those Commonwealth servicemen who died there and have no known grave. The United Kingdom and Indian forces named on the memorial died in operations throughout the peninsula, the Australians at Helles. There are also panels for those who died or were buried at sea in Gallipoli waters. The memorial bears more than 21,000 names. There are four other Memorials to the Missing at Gallipoli. The Lone Pine, Hill 60, and Chunuk Bair Memorials commemorate Australian and New Zealanders at Anzac. The Twelve Tree Copse Memorial commemorates the New Zealanders at Helles. Naval casualties of the United Kingdom lost or buried at sea are recorded on their respective Memorials at Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham, in the United Kingdom. No. of Identified Casualties: 20835

Private J. Kelly, 9515, 2nd Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Sunday June 6, 1915 and is buried in Roeselare Communal Cemetery (Grave 111. C. 3), Roeselare, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Private Henry Kelly, from Kilkenny, a member of ‘The Old Toughs’ lost his life on June 6th, from his wounds, and rests in Roulers Communal Cemetery.

On the same day Private John Kelly from Dublin who was also a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers died of his wounds, which he had received at Mouse Trap Farm, Belgium and is buried in the same cemetery.

June 7 th

Private John Kelly, 11830, South Wales Borderers, died on June 7, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 14 & 15 Le Touret Memorial

The Memorial takes the form of a loggia surrounding an open rectangular court. The court is enclosed by three solid walls and on the eastern side by a colonnade. East of the colonnade is a wall and the colonnade and wall are prolonged northwards (to the road) and southwards, forming a long gallery. Small pavilions mark the ends of the gallery and the western corners of the court. The names of those commemorated are listed on panels set into the walls of the court and the gallery, arranged by Regiment, Rank and alphabetically by surname within the rank. Over 13,000 names are listed on the memorial of men who fell in this area before 25 September 1915 and who have no known grave.

The Memorial in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, is one of those erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to record the names of the officers and men who fell in the Great War and whose graves are not known. It serves the area enclosed on the North by the river Lys and a line drawn from Estaires to Fournes, and on the South by the old Southern boundary of the First Army about Grenay; and it covers the period from the arrival of the II Corps in Flanders in 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos. It does not include the names of officers and men of Canadian or Indian regiments; they are found on the Memorials at Vimy and Neuve-Chapelle. No. of Identified Casualties: 13369

June 10 th

Private J. Kelly, 7404, 5th Bat., Royal Scots Fusiliers, died on Thursday June 10, 1915. He is buried in XII. B. 10 Redoubt Cemetery, Helles, Turkey.

June 11 th

Private P. Kelly, 8354, North Staffordshire Regiment, died on June 11, 1915.

June 12 th

Rifleman P. Kelly, 23453, 2nd/5th Bat., The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), died on Saturday June 12, 1915. He is buried in H. 87 Douglas Cemetery, Isle of Man.

June 15 th

Private Stephen Kelly, 4933, 2nd Bat., Lancashire Fusiliers, died on Tuesday June 15, 1915. He was husband of Nellie Kelly, 29 Smith St., Higher Openshaw, Manchester. He is commemorated on Panel 33 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West - Vlanderen, Belgium.

Private C. H. Kelly, 580, Royal Canadian Dragoons, died on June 18, 1915. Buried in grave II. C. 42, Lillers Communal Cemetery.

 June 20 th

Private P. Kelly, 114520, age 28, Welsh Regiment, died on June 20, 1915.

June 21 st

Private Philip Kelly, 1185, 1st Bat., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), died on Monday June 21, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 24 to 26 Le Toouret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

June 22 nd

Bandsman P. Kelly of the Royal Irish Rifles was Mentioned in Despatches on June 22, 1915. [The 1st Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War, by James Taylor (2002)]

June 25 th

Private P. Kelly, 6302, age 22, 1st Bat., Royal Munster Fusiliers, died on Friday June 25, 1915 and is buried in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery (Grave VII. A. 6), Turkey. He was son of John and Mary Kelly, Tullamore, Listowel, Co. Kerry. [Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery is in the Helles area, about 11 Km south-west of the village of Krithia]

June 29 th

Private William Kelly, 17165, age 18, 1st Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Tuesday June 29, 1915 and is commemorated on Helles Memorial (Panel 190 to 196), Turkey. He was son of Florence Susan and Peter Kelly, Kilburn, London.

Private D. Kelly, 1864, 4th Bat., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), died on Tuesday June 29, 1915. He is buried in XVII. D. 25 Caberet-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas de Calais, France.

Private T. Kelly, 16872, 1st Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Tuesday June 29, 1915 and is buried in Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey. It stands on a small ridge Karaja Oghul Tepe, 110 meters above the sea and overlooking “W” Beach.

 July 1915

July 4 th 1915

Private E. Kelly, 9702, age 31, 2nd Bat., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), died on Sunday July 4, 1915. He was husband of Mary Kelly, 48 Orchard St., Oatlands, Glasgow. He is buried in 1. G. 9 St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richenbourg-L’Avoue, Pas de Calais, France.

 Private J. Kelly, 2643, 7th Bat., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), died on Sunday July, 4, 1915. He was brother of Miss. M. A. Kelly, 143 Albert Rd., Dalston, London. He is buried in 111. M. 2 Merville Communal Cemetery, Nord, France.

Private W. Kelly, 7884, 2nd Bat., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on Sunday, July 4, 1915. He is buried in 111. L. 5, Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany.

July 5 th

Private P. J. Kelly, 1679, age 20, 3rd Lowland Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, died on Monday July 5, 1915 and is commemorated on Panel E. 177 on Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

July 6th

Private Alfred Kelly, 1647, Australian Infantry A.I.F., died July 6, 1915, and is buried in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta.  

Sapper B. Kelly, 82636, age 37, 173rd Tunneling Coy., Royal Engineers, died on Tuesday July 6, 1915 and is buried in Sp. Mem. 13., Rue-de Bois Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Pas de Calais, France. He was husband of Mary Kelly, 22 Chantrell St., York Road, Leeds, England.

Private J. Kelly, 11506, 1st Bat., Royal Irish Fusiliers, died on Tuesday July 6, 1915 and is buried in Artillery Wood Cemetery (Grave 111. D. 9), Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

July 7 th

Deckhand E. Kelly, age 54, Mercantile Marine, died July 7, 1915.

Second Lieutenant E. R. Kelly, age 17, Border Regiment, died on July 7, 1915.

July 8 th

Private J. Kelly, 6784, 1st Bat., East Yorkshire Regiment, died on Thursday, July 8, 1915, and is buried in La Brique Military Cemetery, No. 1, Leper, West- Vlaanderen, Belgium.

July 9 th

Private J. F. Kelly, 9887, age 19, Hampshire Regiment, died on July 9, 1915.

July 12 th

Private Edward Kelly, 1922, age 19, 1st/9th Bat., Manchester Regiment, died on Monday July 12, 1915 and is buried in Redoubt Cemetery (Grave X11, Helles, Turkey. He was son of John and Louisa Kelly, 7 Water St., Dento, Manchester.

Private R. Kelly, 2429, Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, died on July 12, 1915.

Lance Corporal Thomas Kelly, 2289, age 27, 7th Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Monday July 12, 1915.

He was son of Thomas and Mary Alice Hayes Kelly, Caledonian Brick Works, Polmadie Road, Glasgow. He was born in Northampton. He is commemorated on Panel 173 to 177 Helles Memorial, Turkey.

July 14 th

Private Timothy Francis Kelly, Australian Infantry, Base Depot, died on July 14, 1915, and is buried in Rookwood Necropolis, Sydney, Australia.

Private P. Kelly, 10812, ALIAS, died on July 14, 1915.

July 15 th

Corporal Fred Kelley, 2012, age 33, 1st/5th Bat., West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own), died on Thursday July 15, 1915. He was son of John Thomas and Isabel Kelley, Ottley, Yorks. and husband of Annie Kelley, Harrowgate. He is buried in VIII. B. 61 Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

July 17 th

Private J. Kelly, 8576, East Lancashire Regiment, died on July 17, 1915. He is buried in grave II B. 22A Estaples Military Cemetery. Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern and the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained. The cemetery contains 10,773 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. 35 of these burials are unidentified. Hospitals were again stationed at Etaples during the Second World War and the cemetery was used for burials from January 1940 until the evacuation at the end of May 1940. After the war, a number of graves were brought into the cemetery from other French burial grounds. Of the 119 Second World War burials, 38 are unidentified. Etaples Military Cemetery also contains 658 German burials and a few war graves of other nationalities. The cemetery, the largest Commission cemetery in France, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. No. of Identified Casualties: 11479

 

August 1915

August 1 st

Private Owen Kelly, 9176, “B” Coy. 2nd Bat., Leinster Regiment, died on Sunday August 1,1915 and is buried in grave VI. E. 27 A. Etables Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. He was son of Owen and Bessie Kelly, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

August 4 th

Gunner P. Kelly, 17692, Royal Garrison Artillery, died on August 4, 1915.

August 6 th

Private E. Kelly, 17229, Hampshire Regiment, died on August 6, 1915.

Corporal R. Kelly, 8/1390, Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F., died on August 6, 1915.

August 7 th

Private Frederick Kelly, 749, age 21, 3rd Bat., Australian Infantry, A.I.F., son of Thomas Joseph and Mary Jane Kelly, Kildarun, Singleton, N.S.W., and a native of Coonamble, N.S.W., died on August 7, 1915, and is commemorated on Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

Private J. Kelly, 7767, 1st Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, attd. 32nd Signal Corps, Royal Engineers, died on Saturday August 7, 1915 and is buried in Grave V. B. 12, Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.  

Private P. Kelly, 1382, age 25, Australian Infantry, A.I.F., died on August 7, 1915.

Private Thomas James Kelly, 2233, age 28, 16th Bat., Australian Infantry, A.I.F., son of Ann Kelly, 96 Maran St., Boulder City, Western Australia, a native of Freemantle, Western Australia, died on August 7, 1915.

August 8 th

Private Herbert Kelly, 158, age 22, 15th Bat., Australian Infantry, A.I.F., son of Francis Charles and Johanna I. L. Kelly, “Melrose”, Standring, St., Toowong, Brisbane, a native of Brixton, London, England,  died on August 8, 1915, and is commemorated on Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

Private H. Kelly, 10601, South Staffordshire Regiment, died on August 8, 1915.

Trimmer G. E. Kelly, age 20, Mercantile Marine Reserve, died on August 8, 1915

Private P. Kelly, 1968, age 36, Australian Infantry, A.I.F., died on August 8, 1915.

Private Patrick Joseph Kelly, 612, 15th Bat., Australian Infantry, A.I.F., joined 18/9/14, killed in action on August 8, 1915.

Fireman T. Kelly, Mercantile Marine Reserve, died on August 8, 1915.

August 9 th

Corporal David Kellie, 13500, age 34, 6th Bat., East Yorkshire Regiment, died on Monday August 9, 1915. He was son of John and Elizabeth Kellie, and husband of Mary Ann Charleton Kellie, 6 Bloomfield Terrace, Pelton Fell, Co. Durham. He is commemorated on Panel 51 to 54 Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Private C. Kelly, 11104, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own), died on August 9, 1915. Commemorated on Panel 47 to 51 Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Sapper J. H. Kelly, 47206, 90th Field Coy., Royal Engineers, died on Sunday August 8, 1915 and is buried in grave 11. A. 26, Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L’Avoue, Pas de Calais, France.

Private T. F. Kelly, 3/10019, Durham Light Infantry, died on August 9, 1915.

Private M. Kelly, 12789, age 21, South Wales Borderers, died in August 9, 1915.

August 10 th

Company Sergeant Major Alexander Kelly, 199, age 40, 1st/8th Bat., Manchester Regiment, died on Tuesday August 10, 1915 and is commemorated on panel 158 to 170 on Helles Memorial, Turkey. He was son of the late John and Mary Kelly and husband of Jane Kelly, 25 Ambush St., Higher Openshaw, Manchester.

Rifleman John Kelly, 10489, 6th Bat., Royal Irish Rifles, died on Tuesday, August 10, 1915, and is commemorated on Helles Memorial, on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. The memorial takes the form of an obelisk, over 30 meters high and can be seen by ships passing through the Dardanelles. The 8 months campaign was fought by the Commonwealth and French in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war.

Private J. Kelly, 12906, South Wales Borders, died on August 10, 1915. He is buried in Sp. Men. 41 Embankment Pier Cemetery. The Anzac and Suvla cemeteries are first signposted from the left hand junction of the Eceabat- Bigali Road. From this junction travel into the main Anzac area. After 12.8kms the cemetery will be found on the left. Embarkation Pier is on the north side of the mouth of Chailak Dere, at the north end of Ocean Beach (or North Beach). The cemetery is a little way inland, between the beach and the road from Anzac to Suvla. No. of Identified Casualties: 282

Private T. Kelly, 6/1894, age 42, Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F., died on August 10, 1915.

Lance Corporal T. Kelly, 21573, age 26, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, died on August 15. 1915.

August 11 th

Private William Kelly, DCM, 1577, 4th Bat., Australian Infantry, died on August 11, 1915 and is commemorated on Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

August 13 th

Private J. J. Kelly, 17879, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, died on August 13, 1915.

Lance Sergeant Richard Kelly, 503, age 21, 5th Bat., Connaught Rangers, died on Friday August 13, 1915 and is commemorated on Panel 181 to 183 on Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Sapper W. Kelly, 6901, No 1 Siege Coy., Royal Anglesey, Royal Engineers, died on Friday August 13, 1915 and is buried in grave 11. D. 67, East Mudros Military Cemetery, Lemnos, Greece.

August 15 th

Private John Thomas Henry Kelly, 1391, 13th Bat., Australian Infantry, A.I.F., died on August 15, 1915, and is commemorated on Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

August 16 th

Private Austin Kelly, 13826, age 18, “C” Coy. 7th Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Monday August 16, 1915 and is commemorated on panel 190-196 on Helles Memorial, Turkey. He was born on November 12, 1896 to John and Annie Kelly, Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath. He was uncle of Oisin Kelly who was to become a famous sculptor.

Sergeant D. Kelly, 7655, 2nd Bat., Leinster Regiment, died on Monday August 16, 1915 and is buried in grave 1. G. 11, Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

August 19 th

Sergeant F. Kelly, 13380, South Staffordshire Regiment, died August 19, 1915.

Leading Seaman F. A. Kelly, Wales Z/4, age 26, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, died on December 18, 1915.

August 20 th

Private Alexander Campbell Kelly, S/3230, age 19, Seaforth Highlanders, died August 20, 1915. Buried in grave IV. A. 17 Lillers Communal Cemetery.

Son of Robert and Agnes Campbell Kelly, of "Brooklinn," 3, Greenock Avenue, Old Cathcart, Glasgow. Native of Renfrew

Lillers is a small town about 15 kilometres west-north-west of Bethune and the Communal Cemetery and Extension lie to the north of the town. From the Marie in the centre of the town, head north on the D182, after 500 meters turn right onto Rue St Venant. The cemetery is a further 200 meters on the left hand side. Within the Communal Cemetery the Commonwealth war graves are situated on the right hand side half way up the cemetery central path, and the Extension is at the far right end of the Communal Cemetery. Both cemeteries are signposted.

Lillers was used for billets and headquarter offices from the autumn of 1914 to April 1918. At that time it was a hospital centre with the 6th, 9th, 18th, 32nd, 49th and 58th Casualty Clearing Stations in the town at one time or another. These units buried their dead on the right of the central path of the communal cemetery, working back from Plot I. In April 1918, the Germans advanced as far as Robecq; Lillers came under shell-fire, and the units holding this front continued to bury beyond the cemetery boundary, in the extension. The COMMUNAL CEMETERY contains 894 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 67 of which are unidentified. There are also 15 German graves in the Commonwealth plots. The EXTENSION contains 71 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, six of them unidentified. No. of Identified Casualties: 841

August 21 st

Private E. Kelly, 9692, age 24, Border Regiment, died on August 21.

Private J. Kelly, 5708, age 25, 1st Bat., Royal Munster Fusiliers, died on Saturday August 21, 1915 and is commemorated on panel 185 to 190 on Helles Memorial, Turkey. He was son of Mrs Honoria Kelly, Jamestown, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, and the late Constable J. Kelly of the Royal Irish Constabulary.

Corporal Thomas Kelly, 3694, age 19, 1st Bat., Lancashire Fusiliers, died on Saturday August 21, 1915. He was son of Elizabeth Kelly, 3 Livingston St., Bolton and the late Thomas Kelly. He is commemorated on Panel 58 to 72 or 218 to 219 Helles Memorial, Turkey.

August 22 nd

Sergeant M. Kelly, 11058, age 32, Yorkshire Regiment, died on August 22, 1915.

August 24 th

Private E. Kelly, 18166, 2nd Bat., Lancashire Fusiliers, died on Tuesday August 24, 1915. He is buried in 1. B. 8, Auchonvillers Military Cemetery, Somme, France.

August 26 th

Engineman E. Kelly, 170ES, age 32, Royal Naval Reserve, died on August 26, 1915.

Private J. P. Kelly, 1959, Australian Infantry, A.I.F., died on August 26, 1915. Buried in grave II. H. 11., Haidar Pasha Cemetery. Haidar Pasha is a suburb of Istanbul between Scutari (Uskudar) and Kadikoy on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. The cemetery is on high ground behind the Haida Pasha pier head and railway station. By ferry from the Golden Horn, Istanbul: Take the ferry from Karakoy, near the Galata Bridge, to Haidar Pasha pier head and railway station. Go around to the right (south) side of the main station building and follow the road east approximately 400 metres. Close to the mosque with twin minarets there are steps up to the Kadikoy Rimtimi Cad Road. Turn left (northwards) along this road (passing over the railway lines) and continues for approximately 700 metres and then at the traffic lights turn left down towards the entrance to the cemetery - just past the military hospital main gate.

HAIDAR PASHA CEMETERY was first established for Crimean war burials and was used during the First World War by the Turks for the burial of Commonwealth prisoners of war. After the Armistice, when Istanbul was occupied, further burials were made mainly from No 82 General Hospital and graves were brought in from other civil cemeteries in the area. During the Second World War, Turkey retained her neutrality and those Commonwealth servicemen buried there were mainly men taken prisoner during operations in the Aegean, who died while attempting to escape from camps where they awaited transport to Germany and Italy, and whose bodies were washed up on the Turkish coast. The war graves plot contains 405 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 60 of them unidentified. Second World War burials number 39, 14 of them unidentified. Also within the cemetery, which the Commission maintains as a whole, are about 6,000 Crimean graves, mostly unmarked, and numerous non war military and civilian graves and memorials. Within the war graves plot stands the HAIDAR PASHA CREMATION MEMORIAL, which commemorates 122 soldiers of the Indian Army who died in 1919 and 1920 who were originally commemorated at Mashiak and Osmanieh Cemeteries. In 1961 when these cemeteries could no longer be maintained, the ashes of the Hindus, whose remains were cremated in accordance with their faith, were scattered near this memorial, while the remains of their comrades of the Muslim faith were brought here and re-interred. The war graves plot also contains the HAIDAR PASHA MEMORIAL, which was erected to commemorate more than 30 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War who died fighting in South Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and in post Armistice operations in Russia and Transcaucasia, whose graves are not known. An Addenda panel was later added to commemorate over 170 Commonwealth casualties who are buried in cemeteries in South Russia and Transcaucasia whose graves can no longer be maintained. No. of Identified Casualties: 451

August 27 th

Private James Kelly, 333, 14th Bat., Australian Infantry, A.I.F., died on August 27, 1915, and is commemorated on Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

Private T. Kelly, 5747, 1st Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Friday August 27, 1915 and is buried in Hill 10 Cemetery, Turkey. Hill 10 is a low isolated mound on the north side of the Salt Lake, close to the sea shore, inland from Suvla Bay.

August 28 th

Private Edward Kelly, 350, 5th Bat., Connaught Rangers, died on Saturday August 28, 1915 and is commemorated on Panel 181 to 183, Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Sergeant Thomas Kelly, 7047, 5th Bat., Connaught Rangers, died on Saturday, August 28, 1915, and is commemorated on panel 181-183, Helles Memorial (on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.

 

September 1915

September 4 th

Private Patrick Kelly, of Blackrock, Co. Dublin, and formerly from Naas, Co. Kildare, a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died of wounds, in a German Prisoner of War Camp, on September 4, 1915.

Private P. Kelly, 8269, 2nd Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Saturday September 4, 1915 and is buried in Niederzwehren Cemetery (Grave 111. J. 16), Kassel, Hessen, Germany.

September 10 th

Trooper Charles Kelly, 130, 8th Australian Light Horse, joined the service on September 10, 1914 died of wounds on August 8, 1915, and is commemorated in Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.

September 12 th

Private A. Kelly, 2767, 9th (Glasgow Hds.) Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Sunday September 12, 1915.

He is buried in 1. D. 2, Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, Pas de Calais, France.

September 20 th

Corporal James Kelly, 13822, age 18, 7th Bat., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on Monday September 20, 1915 and is commemorated on Special Memorial D. 5., in Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey. He was son of James and Edith Kelly, Tower Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin. The cemetery about 52 meters above sea level rises almost from the eastern shore of Salt Lake. The cemetery lies on the east side of the Anzac-Suvla Road and can be seen from Anzac and Suvla.

Private John Kelly, 8048, 1st/4th Bat., Royal Scots Fusiliers, died on Monday September 20, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 72 to 75 Helles Memorial, Turkey.

September 25 th

Private Bernard Kelly, 8238, age 33, 10th Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Saturday September 25, 1915. He was nephew of Mrs. Mary Kelly, 51 Leper St., Belfast. He had previously served in the South African Campaign. He had eight years service in the Royal Inniskiling Fusiliers. He is commemorated on Panel 108 to 112 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais.

Corporal Daniel Kelly, 12861, 10th Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Saturday September 25, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 108 to 112 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Sergeant D. Kelly, S/1745, Gordon Highlanders, died on September 25, 1915.

Corporal D. Kelly, 12861, Highland Light Infantry, died on September 25, 1915.

Private James Kelly, 12951, Royal Scots, died September 25, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 10 to 13 Loos Memorial. The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery, and commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay. Loos-en-Gohelle is a village 5 kilometres north-west of Lens, and Dud Corner Cemetery is located about 1 kilometre west of the village, to the north-east of the N43 the main Lens to Bethune road.

Dud Corner Cemetery stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle. The name "Dud Corner" is believed to be due to the large number of unexploded enemy shells found in the neighbourhood after the Armistice. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice. No. of Identified Casualties: 20581

Rifleman James Kelly, 8478, age 27, 1st Bat., Royal Irish Rifles, died on Saturday, September 25, 1915, was the son of James Kelly, and is commemorated on panel 9, Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.. [16 R.I.R men killed on September 25, 1915]

Lance Sergeant John Kelly, 9132, age 21, South Staffordshire Regiment, died on September 25, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 73 to 76 Loos Memorial.

Son of the late Michael and Mary Kelly. No address given.

Private J. Kelly, 4619, 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment, died on Saturday, September 25, 1915, and is buried in  grave Bl. 1, Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Private John Kelly, 8048, Royal Scots Fusiliers, died on September 25, 1915. Panel 72 to 75 Helles Memorial. The Helles Memorial stands on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula. It takes the form of an obelisk over 30 metres high that can be seen by ships passing through the Dardanelles.

Gunner J. Kelly, 13141, Royal Garrison Artillery,  61 st Trench Mortar Bty., died on September 25, 1915. Buried in grave IV. E. 3. Merville Communal Cemetery.

Merville is a town 15 kilometres north of Bethune and about 20 kilometres south-west of Armentieres. The Communal Cemetery is on the north-east side of the town to the north of the D38 road to Neuf-Berquin

Merville was the scene of fighting between the Germans and French and British cavalry early in October 1914 but from the 9th of that month to 11 April 1918, it remained in Allied hands. In October 1914, and in the autumn of 1915, the town was the headquarters of the Indian Corps. It was a railhead until May 1915, and a billeting and hospital centre from 1915-1918. The 6th and Lahore Casualty Clearing Stations were there from the autumn of 1914 to the autumn of 1915; the 7th from December 1914, to April 1917; the 54th (1st/2nd London) from August 1915 to March 1918, and the 51st (Highland) from May 1917 to April 1918. On the evening of 11 April 1918, in the Battles of the Lys, the Germans forced their way into Merville and the town was not retaken until 19 August. The cemeteries were not used again until the concentration of battlefield burials into the Extension began, after the Armistice. During the Second World War the river Lys was the southern end of a deep but narrow area held by British forces at the end of May 1940. Merville is on the territory over which were fought desperate rearguard actions during the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force to the coast, for evacuation from Dunkirk. MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY was used by French troops (chiefly cavalry) in October 1914, and for Commonwealth burials from that date until August 1916 (in the case of officers, to March 1918). It now contains 1,268 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, and 12 French war graves. There is also 1 non war burial. MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION was opened in August 1916, and used by Commonwealth and Portuguese hospitals until April 1918. It was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields immediately north and east of Merville and from Caudescure Halte Cemetery, Morbecque. The Extension now contains 920 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 345 of them unidentified. The 92 Second World War burials (18 of them unidentified) occurred mostly during the fighting in May 1940 and are interspersed among the First World War graves. The Extension also contains 19 war graves of other nationalities. The Extension was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. No. of Identified Casualties: 1283

Gunner John Kelly, 66339, 105 Bty., Royal Field Artillery, died on Saturday September 25, 1915 and is commemorated on Panel 3, Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France..

Private John Kelly, S/4062, 9th Bat., BlackWatch (Royal Highlanders), died on Saturday September 25, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 78 to 83 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Private John Kelly, S/7334, age 24, 9th Bat., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), died on Saturday September 25, 1915. He was son of Charles M. Kelly and Helen Kelly, 68 Mungo St., Glasgow. He is commemorated on Panel 78 to 83 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

 Private John Kelly, 17668, age 21, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, died on September 25, 1915.  Commemorated Panel 89 to 91 Loos Memorial. Son of Thomas and Mary Alice Kelly, of 88, Mason St., Bolton.

Private J. Kelly, 4281, age 17, 12th Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Saturday September 25, 1915. He was son of Stephen and Margaret Kelly, 4 Graham St., Bridgeton, Glasgow. He is commemorated on Panel 108 to 112 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Private James Kelly, 13447, Cameron’s (Scottish Rifles), died on September 25, 1915. Commemorated Panel 57 to 59 Loos Memorial.

Private James Kelly, 2038, 1st/7th Bat., The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), died on Saturday September 25, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 27 to 30 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Rifleman P. Kelly, A/2255, age 36, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, died on September 25, 1915.

Lance Corporal S. Kelly, 10181, age 19, Devonshire Regiment, died on September 25, 1915.

Private T. Kelly, 17390, age 22, Leicestershire Regiment, died on September 25, 1915

Private Anthony Kelly, 12321, age 20, 2nd Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Saturday September 25, 1915. He was son of Anthony and Mary Ann Kelly, 22 Argyle St., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. He is commemorated on Panel 108 to 112 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Major H. N. Kelly, age 45, 33rd Punjabis, died on September 25, 1915.

September 26 th

Private Thomas Kelly, 17012, age 27, 8th Bat., East Yorkshire Regiment, died on Sunday September 26, 1915. He was son of Thomas and Elizabeth Kelly, 107 Beaumont Terrace., Westerhope and husband of Mabel Ann Kelly, 2 Beaumont Terrace. Dinnington Colliery, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He is commemorated on Panel 40 and 41 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Private T. Kelly, 17771, 12th Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Sunday September 26, 1915. He is buried in 111. C. 3 Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos, Pas de Calais, France.

Private T. Kelly, 12993, age 29, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, died on September 26, 1915.

Private A. Kelly, 14959, Royal Scots, died September 26, 1915.

September 27 th

Private John Kelly, S/6400, age 17, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, died on September 27, 1915. Commemorated on Panel 125 to 127 Loos Memorial.

Private Malachy Kelly, 7628, 1st Bat., The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), died on Monday September 27, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 27 to 30 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Able Seaman D. J. Kelly, Bristol Z/291, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, died on December 27, 1915.

September 28 th

Private Thomas Kelly, 4084, age 22, 2nd Bat., Irish Guards, killed in action on Tuesday September 28, 1915 and is commemorated on Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. He was son of Mrs Elizabeth Kelly, Woodlands, Castledermot, Co. Kildare.

September 30 th

Private George James Kelly, 38, age 35, 21st Bat., Australian Infantry, A.I.F., son of George and Kate Newman Kelly, and husband of M. F. Kelly, 25 Toward St., Murrumbeena, Victoria. George was born in Melbourne and died on September 30, 1915, and is buried in Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

Private Joseph Kelly, 13388, age 28, C. Coy., 7th Bat., Royal Scots Fusiliers, died on Thursday September 30, 1915. He was son of John and Maryann Kelly, Springburn. He is buried in Plot 1. Roe K. Grave 8 A. Le Treport Military Cemetery, Seine-Maritime, France.

Private William Kelly, 7405, age 21, 2nd Bat., Irish Guards, killed in action on Thursday September 30, 1915 and is commemorated on panel 9 and 10 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. He was son of Thomas and Bridget Kelly, Lisdockey, Drumsna, Co. Leitrim.  37

October 1915

October 2 nd

Private J. Kelly, 10167, age 20, 1st Bat., Connaught Rangers, son of John and Mary Kelly, Mary’s Lane, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare, died on Saturday, October 2, 1915, and is buried in St. Vaas Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L’Avoue, ( 9 Km north-east of Bethune), Pas de Calais, France.

Corporal P. J. Kelly, 6/1200, Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F., died on October 2, 1915.

October 3 rd

Private Mark Kelly, 12139, age 39, 2nd Bat., Cheshire Regiment, died on Sunday, October 3, 1915. He was son of the late Mr and Mrs. Luke Kelly. He is commemorated on Panel 49 and 50 Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

October 7 th

Private H. Kelly, 11053, age 18, 3rd Bat., King’s Own (Liverpool Regiment), died on Thursday October 7, 1915. He was son of John and Mary Kelly. He is buried in AD. 1158 Liverpool (Roman Catholic) Cemetery, Lancashire.

Private H. Kelly, 11053, age 18, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), died on October 7, 1915.

October 9 th

Private Albert Kelly, 71275, age 19, 27th Bat., Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), died on Saturday October 9, 1915. He was son of Frederick John and Louise Kelly, Hulton, St. Vital, Manitoba. He is commemorated on Panel 24 -26 - 28 - 30 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

October 11 th

Private H. Kelly, 18448, 1st Bn., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on October 11, 1915, buried in Addolorata Cemetery, Malta (on the outskirts of the village of Paola, 5 Km. From Valetta).

October 12 th

Private Norman Kelly, 3424, age 30, 1st/14th Bn., London Regiment (London Scottish), died on Tuesday October 12, 1915 and is commemorated on Panel 132, Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. He was son of the late John William and Emily Kelly.

October 13 th

Private William Kelley, 406563, 1st Bat., Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment), died on Wednesday October 13, 1915. He was buried in 1. C. 22 St. Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Private W. J. Kelley, 406563, Canadian Infantry (Ontario Regiment), died on October 13, 1915.

October 18th

Gunner P. Kelly, 48527, age 25, Royal Garrison Artillery, died on October 18, 1915.

October 23 rd

Private Thomas Kelly, 2138, age 29, 5th Bat., Royal Irish Regiment, died on October 23, 1915. He was son of Thomas and Norah Kelly and husband of Julia Kelly, Chapel St., Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. He is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial, Greece.

October 31 st

Private V. Kelly, 12689, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), died on October 31, 1915.

 

November 1915

November 8 th

Sergeant J. A. Kelly, DCM 16393, age 45, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on November 8, 1915. He was son of William and Mary Kelly, Castlerock, Co. Derry, and wife of Clara Eleanor Tinsley (formerly Kelly), Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. He is buried in Q. 176614, Brookwood Cemetery Surrey.

November 11 th

Private W. Kelly, 3759, 11th Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Thursday November 11, 1915. He is buried in VI. D. 40 Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

November 14 th

Able Seaman M. Kelly, KW/10, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, died on November 14, 1915.

Stoker M. Kelly, 3413S, age 25, Royal Naval Reserve, died on December 30, 1915.

November 22 nd

Staff Sergeant A. Kelly, 5176, age 19, Australian Army Services Corps, died on November 22, 1915. Staff Sergeant Albert Kelly, 5176, age 19, 12th Coy., Australian Army Service Corp, son of William Francis and Louisa Kelly, Herald Office, Melbourne, Australia, died on November 22, 1915, and is buried in Addolorata Cemetery, nr the village of Paola, Malta.

November 24 th

Corporal Robert Kelly, 7951, 8th Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Wednesday November 24, 1915. He is commemorated on Panel 173 to 177 Helles Memorial Turkey.

November 27 th

Private Peter Kelly, 3129, age 21, 9th Bat., Lancashire Fusiliers, died on Saturday November 27, 1915. He was son of Mrs. M. Crosdale, 7 Greystokes St., Stockport. He is commemorated on Panel 58 to 72 or 218 to 219 Helles Memorial, Turkey.

November 28 th

Private Frederick George Kelly, 2735, age 18, 3rd Bat., London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), died on Sunday November 28, 1915 and is commemorated on Panel 196, Helles Memorial, Turkey. He was son of Mrs Louisa S. A. Kelly, 97 Benwell Road, Holloway, London.

 

December 1915

December 7 th

Private J. Kelly, 10224, 5th Bat., Connaught Rangers, son of John and Margaret Kelly, Longford, and husband of Catherine Kelly, 136 Married Quarters, Bordon, Hants, died on Tuesday, December 7, 1915, and is commemorated on Doiran Memorial, Greece. This situated near Doiran Military Cemetery, in the north of Greece, near Yugoslavia.

Private P. Kelly, 5364, 5th Bat., Connaught Rangers, died on Tuesday December 7, 1915 and is commemorated on Doiran Memorial, Greece.

Private T. Kelly, 5834, 5th Bat., Connaught Rangers, died on Tuesday, December 7, 1915, and is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial, Greece.

 December 8 th

Able Seaman J. Kelly, Clyde Z/1085, Royal Navy, died on December 8, 1915. Buried in grave XI. D. 11. Redoubt Cemetery, Helles.

 Able Seaman John Kelly, SS/2699, H.M.S. Pembroke, Royal Navy, died on Wednesday, December 8, 1915. He was son of Mrs. F. Kelly, 28 Grosvenor Road, Derry.  He is buried in Ford Park Cemetery (Formerly Plymouth Old Cemetery), (Pennycomequick), Devon. Church S. 3. 12.

December 12 th

Lieutenant Colonel Robert G. C. Kelly, age 44, 149th Bat., Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment), died on Sunday December 12, 1915. He was son of the late George and Mary Kelly and husband of Susanne F. Kelly of Watford, Ontario. He is buried in Watford (St. James’s Church) Cemetery, Ontario.

December 13 th

Private Patrick Kelly, 4932, age 41, 5th Bat., Connaught Rangers, died on Monday December 13, 1915 and is commemorated on Doiran Memorial, Greece. He was son of James and Margaret Kelly, Goff St., Roscommon, Ireland.

December 19 th

Private J. Kelly, 1925, 5th Bat., Highland Light Infantry, died on Sunday December 19, 1915. He is buried in 111. C. 6. Pink Farm Cemetery, Helles, Turkey.

December 20 th

Steward T. Kelly, age 31, Mercantile Marine, died on December 20, 1915.

 

                                                              1916.

August 1916

August 2 nd

Private Henry Kelly. 32627. 15th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 2 August 1916.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Buried NORTH ORMESBY (ST. JOSEPH'S) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY.

 

                                                               1917

June 1917

June 10 th

Rifleman James Kelly. 40635. 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, formerly 17729 the Yorkshire Regiment. Foster son of Jack and Mary Ann Dalton, of 10, Cargo Fleet Rd., Middlesbrough. Killed 10 June 1917. Aged 25.
Born Gildersome (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Halifax (Yorks). Commemorated Panel 40, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.

July 1917

July 1 st

Private John Patrick Kelly. 14006. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late S.M. James Kelly (Depot Northumberland Fusiliers), and Mary Kelly. Died 1 July 1916. Aged 27.
Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Buried FRICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY.

August 1917

August 27 th

Private John Kelly. 8513. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late Patrick and Mary Kelly, of Argyle St., Middlesbrough. Died 27 August 1917. Aged 38.
Born Hartlepool, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, Tyne Cot Memorial.

September 1917.

September 21 st

Serjeant Bernard Kelly. 3/6982. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 21 September 1917.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, Tyne Cot Memorial.

September 28 th.

Private James Kelly. 15752. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late Patrick and Mary Kelly, of Middlesbrough. Died 28 September 1917. Aged 25.
Born Grangetown, Enlisted Frensham, Resided Middlesbrough.
Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, Tyne Cot Memorial.

October 1917.

October 19 th

Private John Kelly. 15575. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Elizabeth Kelly; husband of Hannah Kelly, of 28, Victoria St., Newport Rd., Middlesbrough. Died 19 October 1917. Aged 33.
Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, Tyne Cot Memorial.

 

 

Our thanks to historian, Dr. J. M. Kelly who researched the above.

 Nov ’12.

We have added a few today. Keep them coming. Ed. April 2014

Military Cemetery Grangegorman. Dublin. 

                

While the war was in progress in Europe, things were not to quite here at home.
The War of Independence and the 1916 rising, Easter Week. We have listed the known Kellys who took an active part.

General Post Office, O’Connell Street

G.P.O. garrison 58 KIA. 323 Survivors. Total
combatants 381
15% KIA
Kelly Barber, Kathleen J
Kelly Edward
Kelly frank
Kelly John
Kelly Joseph
O Ceallaigh Eamonn
O’Kelly Fergus F
O’Kelly Joseph
O’Kelly Sean T

Boland’s mill

Boland’s Mill 29 KIA 144 Survivors. Total combatants 173 17% KIA

Kelly Patrick

Kelly Thomas

 

 

 

 

 

 

City Hall

City Hall 30 KIA and 30 Survivors. Total combatants 60. 50% KIA
Kelly Bessie

Four Courts

Four Courts 53 KIA 370 Survivors. Total
combatants 423 12.5% KIA
Kelly Joseph
Kelly Michael
Kelly Patrick

Jacob's Factory

Jacob’s 36 KIA 140 Survivors. Total combatants 176 20% KIA
Kelly Henry
Kelly John E.
O Ceallaigh Padraig
O Ceallaigh Seosamh S.

Marrowbone Lane

Greene Josephine nee Kelly
Kelly William

 

Mendicity Institute

O Ceallaigh Padraig

Roe's Distillery

Keely SeanSaint

 

 

 

 

 

Stephen's Green

Stephen’s green 29 KIA 108 Survivors. Total combatants 137 21% KIA

Kelly Unknown
Kelly Annie
Kelly James
O’Kelly Michael

 

 

South Dublin Union

Dublin Union 35 KIA and 165 Survivors. Total combatants 200 17.5%KIA
Kelly Joseph F.

Ashbourne

13 Dead 46 Survivors. Total combatants 59 22% KIA
(no record of Kelly’s casualties)

The average was 17% KIA.

Kelly civilians killed during the fighting.Approx 316 civilians died as a result of the rising during Easter week. Some caught in the cross fire, some onlookers trampled to death in the panic around the City when the fighting stared. Some were looters and shot by both sides. Some willfully murdered.

Kelly, Mary aged 12, 128 Townsend
Street, Dublin. bu. Deansgrange.
Kelly, D., .Jervis Street Hospital.
Kelly, L. aged 50, 1 Lower
Clanbrassil Street.
Kelly, James aged18, 205
Phibsborough Road.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indian Mutiny.

On June 28 th 1920, elements of the Connaught Rangers, who were stationed in Wellington Barracks, Jalandhar, Punjab, refused to go on duty. They were protesting about the conduct of the “Black and Tans’ and the imposition of martial law back in Ireland. The situation deteriorated after an unsuccessful attempt to gain weapons from the armory. During this incident two of the attackers were shot dead. A young Pvt. Daly was identified as the ring leader. He was later court - martialed and executed by firing squad. Kelly’s who took part in the Indian Mutiny.

Private John Kelly
Private Patrick Kelly 7762/7144064 (32599)Sgt.
Patrick Kelly. Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 5858 (32292).

The following is the list of Kelly's who were KIA in the Korean War of 1950 - 1953, in the US Army fighting under a UN mandate.

Name	Rank	Corps	Enlisted in	Born	Kia
William C Kelly	Sgt	Army	Illinois	1924	25th May 1951
Marvin Ó Kelly	Pvt	Army	Arkansas		21st Nov 1951
Curtis C Kelly	Pfc	Army			28th Nov 1950
Herbert Kelly	Pfc	Army			13th Sept 1951
Cecil D Kelly	Msg	Army	California	1923	21st July 1951
Delbert F Kelley	Cpl	Marines		4th April 1926	2nd Oct 1950
Robert G Kelley	Pvt	Army		1929	10th Oct 1951
Donald E Kelly	Pfc	Army		1933	3rd Dec 1952
Francis B Kelly	Maj	Marines		1920	29th July 1952
Raymond G Kelly	Ens	Navy		13th Sept 1928	9th Jan 1952 (at sea)
Roger J Kelly	1st LT	Army		29th Oct 1924	28th Sept 1950
Robert N Kelly	Sgt	Army	Colorado	1933	3rd Sept 1951
Bernard L Kelly	Cpl	Army	Connecticut	1930	2nd Dec 1950
Carl L Kelly	2nd LT	Army	Georgia	1919	12th Feb 1951
Guy B Kelly Jr	Sfc	Army		1932	15th April 1953
Russell E Kelley	Cpl	Army	Indiana	1930	11th July 1950
Thomas Kelly	Pvt	Army		1929	25th May 1951
Frank H Kelley	Pvt	Army	Iowa	1931	17th Sept 1950
Homer L Kelly	Fn	Navy	Kansas	11th Mar 1933	18th Aug 1950 (at sea)
Charles E Kelly	Pvt	Army	Kentucky	1931	8th Sept 1950
David J Kelly	Cpl	Army		1928	23rd July 1952
Douglas F Kelly	Sfc	Army		1921	18th July 1953
Lawrence B Kelly	1st Lt	Air Force		22nd Jan 1952	16th Dec 1951 (no body found)
Virlen E Kelly	Sfc	Army	Kentucky	1930	11th Oct 1951
Aubrey H Kelly	Pvt	Army	Louisiana	1933	10th Oct 1951
Henry B Kelly	1st Lt	Air Force		7th Aug 1925	13th Sept 1952 (no body found)
Leslie L Kelly	Pfc	Army	Maine	1929	3rd Nov 1952
Charles Kelly Jr	Pvt	Army	Massachusetts	1929	10th March 1951
George E Kelly	Pvt	Army		1923	7th July 1950 (no body found)
John H Kelly	Pvt	Army		1923	19th Nov 1951 (no body found)
Warren J Kelly	Cpl	Marines	Michigan	24th Feb 1928	25th July 1950
Patrick H Kelly	1st Lt	Army	Minnesota	not given	23rd August 1950
Hobert G Kelly	Pfc	Army	Missouri	1928	21st Feb 1953
John M Kelly	Pfc	Army	New Hampshire	1927	30th Nov 1950
Raymond E Kelly	Pfc	Army		1932	24th March 1951
Walter J Kelly	Msg	Army	New Jersey	1921	29th Jan 1951
Edward J Kelly Jr	Pfc	Army	New York	1930	3rd Sept 1950
George R Kelly	Cpl	Marines		17th Oct 1929	7th July 1951
James C Kelly	Sfc	Army		1929	2nd Nov 1950
John L Kelly Jr	Pfc	Army		1926	2nd Nov 1950 (no body found)
William W Kelly	Pvt	Army		1934	21st Sept 1952
Louis C Kelly	Pfc	Army	North Dakota	1933	15th Oct 1951
George A Kelly	Pvt	Army	Ohio	1929	26th June 1951
Charles Kelly Jr	Pvt	Army		1927	1st Sept 1950
George A Kelly	Pfc	Army		1932	26th Nov 1950
James W Kelly	Wo1	Army	Oklahoma	1918	18th May 1951
James Wm Kelly	Sgt	Air Force		1929	13th Sept 1952
Fredrick S Kelley	Capt	Air Force	Pennsylvania	1921	29th April 1952
Irvin R Kelly		Marines		1930	8th Feb 1953
Vernon L Kelley	Pfc	Army		1932	28th Oct 1952
Daniel F Kelley	Pfc	Army		1932	26th Nov 1950
John Doren Kelly	Pfc	Marines		8th July 1938	28th May 1952
Robert T Kelly	Pfc	Army		1932	12th July 1950
Thomas J Kelly	Pvt	Army		1931	9th July 1953
Billie F Kelley	Pvt	Army	South Carolina	1931	8th Oct 1952
Willis E Kelly	Pfc	Army		1931	3rd Feb 1951
Warren F Kelly	Pfc	Army	South Dakota	1930	8th March 1951
Tommy R Kelly	Pvt	Army	Tennessee	1930	7th Nov 1951
Wesley R Kelly	Cpl	Army		1931	27th Aug 1951
William A Kelley	Cpl	Army		1928	11th July 1950
Joe Kelly	Cpl	Army	Texas	1928	25th July 1950
Obie L Kelly	Ssg	Army		1924	11th Nov 1950
Charles A Kelley	Cpl	Army	Virginia	1931	28th July 1950
Ernest M Kelly	Sfc	Army		1914	12th July 1950

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Australian casualties             Name	Service No.	Unit           The Boer War	Conflict  - The Boer War
Kelly, John		Fifth Mounted Rifles Contingent, Victoria	South Africa, 1899-1902
Kelly, John Joseph	417	Army Medical Corps, Second Contingent	South Africa, 1899-1902
Kelly, Robert	440	New South Wales Imperial Bushmen, B Company	South Africa, 1899-1902
Kelly, Robert Shaw	441	Fifth Queensland Imperial Bushmen	South Africa, 1899-1902
Kelly, William Patrick	2346	Third New South Wales Imperial Bushmen	South Africa, 1899-1902
Preferred name	Service No.	Unit             1st World War	Conflict - 1st World War
Dwyer, Thomas Kelly	7243	11 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Foley, Lisle	219	26th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Green, George William	5359	18 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Albert	5176	12th Company Australian Army Service Corps	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Albert Edwin	6833	21st Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Alexander	647	28 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Alexander	3399	45 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Alfred William	590	17th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Alick Knox	4012	2 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Arthur	1682	49th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Bert	1801	27 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Cecil Byron		47th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Charles	130	8 Light Horse Regiment	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Charles Archibald	3838	2 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Charles Leslie	378B	1 Battalion Australian Machine Gun Corps	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Charles Oswald	868	4th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Cyril Harvey	3501	16 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Cyrus Holmes	5367	17th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Daniel	5487	3 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Daniel	1250	22 Corps Light Horse	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Daniel		Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Reinforcements	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Daniel Frank	3049A	6th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Denis Joseph	5387	28 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Donald	4537	11 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Edmund	5118	58th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Edward	4811	19 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Edward Joseph	6946A	22 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Edward Patrick	2341	42nd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Ernest	1250	5 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Ernest Edward	235	7th Australian Light Horse	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Ernest Roger	7492	44th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Eugene	1057	3rd Australian Tunnelling Company	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Evan John	2196	33rd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Francis	2462	3rd Australian Light Horse	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Francis Michael	3164	28 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Frank	2097	41st Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Frank	6339	28 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Frank Alfred	1923	42nd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Frederick	749	3 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Frederick Charles	1706	31st Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Frederick John	3176	45 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Frederick Joseph Anthony	4317	54th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Fredrick	3367	50 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Garnet Francis	10287	10th Field Company Australian Engineers	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, George	1732	56th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, George Abner	185	2 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, George Edward Albert	4799	32nd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, George Edward Eccleston		2 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, George Henry	6823	25 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, George James	38	21st Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, George Whiting	595	12th Australian Light Horse	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Gerald John Mortimer	1815	1 Battalion Imperial Camel Corps	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Harold Alva	3050	6th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Harry	3071	53rd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Henry	5361	21st Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Henry Fitzherbert Palmer	2342	41st Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Herbert	158	15th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Herbert Albert	2929B	17th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Herbert Augustine	6360	20 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Herbert Norman	82234	12th Light Horse	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Hubert William	2688	54th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Hugh Craine	290	50 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Charles Oswald	868	4th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, James O'Neil	7036	14 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, James	1718	19 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, James	333	14 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, James	1160	35th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, James Edwin	6774	3 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, James Henry	2692	51 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, James O'Neil	7036	14 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, James Patrick		1 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, James William	769	5th Company Australian Machine Gun Corps	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John	2868	60th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John	1854	39th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John	1232	23 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John	1918	47th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John	1622	17th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John	465	3rd Pioneer Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John	2107	43rd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John Algar	342	2nd Australian Light Horse	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John James	1958	4th Division Trench Mortar Battery Australian Field Artillery	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John Joseph	5266	2 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John Joseph	900	3rd Division Australian Salvage Corps	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John Joseph	2354	44th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John Patrick	5388	14 Field Artillery Brigade	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John Reginald	915	30th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John Thomas Henry	1391	13 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, John William	3048	47th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Joseph	6359	20 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Joseph Edward	1690	56th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Joseph Lloyd	1356	12th Company Australian Machine Gun Corps	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Joseph Patrick	1959	15th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Leo	906	20 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Leo Patrick		7 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Leslie Edward	5615	26th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Lewis Alfred	2057	48 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Lionel Edwin	3711	16 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Lionel Francis	3174	58th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Manus John	1657	8 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Michael	2099	60th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Michael Herbert	1056	3rd Australian Tunnelling Company	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Michael James	1483	14 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Nathaniel	2657	1st Australian Tunnelling Company	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Nelson William	5045	48 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Patrick	1164	53rd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Patrick	240	31st Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Patrick	2289	49th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Patrick	1968	7 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Patrick	3872	51 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Patrick	1382	3 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Patrick James	5254	3rd Australian Tunnelling Company	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Patrick Joseph	3808	49th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Patrick Joseph	612	15th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Paul Tonkin Roberts	3423	56th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Percival James	2813	Australian Railway Operating Division Depot	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Peter	868	9th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Peter	6089	19 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Philip	2684	55th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Phillip Ewart	6959	4th Brigade Australian Field Artillery	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Raymond James	6505	4th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Reginald	31419	16th Battery 6th Brigade Australian Field Artillery	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Reginald Neville	5600	25 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Renton Moffatt	2531	52nd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Richard	3674	58th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Richard Bartholomew	3372	14 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Richard Desmond	3370	6th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Robert Cornelius	2343	33rd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Robert William	3143	55th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Robert William	1154	36th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Rudolph Charles	5726	1 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Rupert Joseph	1827	1 Battalion Imperial Camel Corps	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Shirley William Robert	1436	33rd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Stephen	7089	1 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Stephen	1296	36th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas	1021	10th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas	5386	9th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas	16078	12th AFA Brigade Australian Field Artillery	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas	1232	17th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas Arthur	5041	22 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas Bernard	7742	11 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas Francis	371	21 Company Australian Machine Gun Corps	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas Henry	2292	47th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas James	2233	16 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas William	1653	40th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Thomas William	3075	13 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Timothy Francis		Light Horse Depot	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Valentine William	4737	22 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Walter Ernest John	2353	40th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, Walter George	6324	17th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William	1577	4th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William	11079	51 Battery Australian Field Artillery	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William	2436	54th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William	2613	5 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William	132	10th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William Archibald		6th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William Charles		3rd Australian Light Horse	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William George	5355	19 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William James Thomas	2930	18 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William Joseph	956	9th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William Joseph	594	4th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William Peter	2895	23 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly, William Philip John	3846	49th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kelly-Healy, James Patrick		42nd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Kerridge, Albert Ernest	6033	1 Battalion	First World War, 1914-1918
Lynch, Patrick Kelly	28	1 Battalion Imperial Camel Corps	First World War, 1914-1918
Reick, John	1665	52nd Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Richardson, Cyril Kelly St John	7354	44th Battalion (Infantry)	First World War, 1914-1918
Preferred name	Service No.	Unit         2nd World War	Conflict - 2nd World War
Kelly, Alan Clement	VX42229	2/23rd Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Andrew Bernard	V39893	17 Works Company	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Archibald Robert	SX4814	2/48th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Arthur John	NX73660	2/20th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Arthur Keith	401968	452 Squadron	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Arthur Lionel	VX24743	2/23rd Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Bernard Edward	415430	463 Squadron	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Bernard George	NX47922	No 1 Independent Company	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Bernard Hope	VX37767	2/10th Field Company RAE	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Bernard Matthew	VX42652	2/21st Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Bernard Edward	415430	463 Squadron	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Bernard George	NX47922	No 1 Independent Company	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Bernard Hope	VX37767	2/10th Field Company RAE	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Bernard Matthew	VX42652	2/21st Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Brian Arthur	425314	158 Squadron RAF	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Brian Charles Francis	436681	30 Squadron	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Brian Patrick	VX50558	2/12 Field Regiment RAA	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Bruce	NX41175	3 Infantry Training Battalion	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Charles Cornelius	QX6096	2/31st Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Charles Dermett	404658	105 Squadron RAF	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Charles George McQueen	WX7612	2/4th Machine Gun Battalion	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Clarence Joseph	QX14912	2/31st Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Claude Charles	WX9534	2/43rd Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Clifford Llewelyn	V210367	Headquarters Southern Command	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Daniel Joseph	NX40478	2/3rd Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Derek Land	NX77893	2/2nd Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Desmond Henry	NX49969	2/19th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Desmond Ronald	W21591	5th Garrison Battalion	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Douglas Edwin Shimmin	QX49401	5th Field Regiment RAA	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Evan Ralph	SX3651	2/3 Cavalry Commando Squadron	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Frederick Thomas	NX32304	2/15 Field Regiment RAA	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Frederick William	NX67911	2/10th Field Ambulance AAMC	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, George Henry Thomas	N105381	AACC HQ 2 Infantry Training Brigade	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, George Herbert	QX64925	8 Military District AAOC	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Gerald James	WX17287	2/32nd Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Henry Alfred	19225	HMAS Perth	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Henry Sieman O'Brien	QX2944	2/26th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Herbert John	NX31013	6 Division Signals	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Hilton Francis	NX7690	2/1st Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Jack	SX19370	34 INF TRG BN att 3 MT TRG DEPOT	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, James	V15312	107 Convalescent Depot AAMC	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, James Bruce	TX5886	2/40th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, James Christopher	SX39083	25 Battalion	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, James Fitzgerald	882	24 Squadron	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, James John	79621	8 Service Flying Training School Bundaberg	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, James Robert	QX50920	225 Supply Depot Platoon AASC	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, James Vincent	PM3050	HMAS Sydney	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Jim Henry	QX24567	Headquarters AIF Malaya	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John	NX3877	2/1st Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John Cannan	WX8260	2/16th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John Edmund Joseph	429341	12 Squadron RAF	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John Francis	VX120398	21st Training Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John Francis	VX39953	2/21st Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John Henry	VX110447	2/123 Brigade Workshop AEME	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John Joseph	QX7706	2/15th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John Leonard	N21554	36th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John Patrick	QX18710	2/12th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John Patrick	SX10497	3 Artillery Training Battalion RAA	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, John Thomas	NX31641	2/13th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Joseph Colwyn	407986	10 Squadron RAAF	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Joseph James	WX5781	2/16th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Joseph Thomas	VX3309	2/5th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Keith Patrick	NX21762	7 Division Cash Office AAPC	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Keith Raymond	NX45841	2/20th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Kenneth Spencer	SX10856	2/48th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Kevin Frederick	NX52908	Headquarters 1st Australian Army Troops RAE	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Leo Joseph	VX25434	2/23rd Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Leonard Derrick	QX21054	2/26th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Leslie Norman	NX56799	2/13th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Lester James	414142	622 Squadron RAF	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Louis	QX23528	2/29th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Michael Joseph	SX585	2/10th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Neil	VX12625	2/8th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Neville Andrew	S5374	HMAS Sydney	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Patrick Andrew	WX28374	2/24th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Patrick John	20681	HMAS Perth	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Percival Ross	NX48699	2/30th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Phillip Lindsay	VX14701	9th Division Cavalry Regiment	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Raymond Alfred	156779	RAAF Laverton	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Reginald Adolph Us Ambrose	NX24106	1 Corps Ammunition Sub Park AASC	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Reginald Aloysius	WX9641	2/16th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Reginald Stanislaus	412970	78 Squadron RAF	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Robert George	VX50331	2/21st Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Robert Henry	406108	24 Squadron SAAF	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Robert John	NX16766	2/13th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Ronald John Clement	72186	18 Squadron	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Ronald Leonard	NX59772	2/2nd Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Roy James	QX10532	2/10th Field Regiment RAA	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Russell Lindsay Frederick	NX59997	3 Tank Attack Regiment RAA	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Russell Livingstone	VX33979	2/22nd Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Samuel Joseph	NX40710	2/18th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Stanley Walter	W/1219	Attached Royal Navy (HMS Anking)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Sydney Norris	426350	106 Squadron RAF	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Terence John	NX35550	2/19th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Terence Joseph	52398	12 Signals Townsville	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Terence Phillip	TX509	2/12th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Thomas Kevin	SX29970	10th Army Troops Company RAE	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Thomas Leo	VX73623	2/1st Mechanical Equipment Company RAE	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Thomas Vincent	QX7755	14 Employment Company	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Timothy Joseph	VX102824	58/59th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Victor Leslie	NX21980	2/6th Field Company RAE	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Victor Maurice	NX36148	2/19th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Vincent	Q114429	4 Infantry Training Battalion	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Walter James	SX8940	8 Division Salvage Unit	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, William Alfred	NX40731	2/18th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, William Archibald	NX18037	7 Division Signals	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, William Desmond	426438	189 Squadron RAF	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, William Henry	N76674	Headquarters Recruit Reception Depot Eastern Command	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, William Lester	NX89713	AACC att 2/17th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, William Thomas	SX566	2/10th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Louis	QX23528	2/29th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Peter Lorne	NX67141	2/33rd Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Kelly, Henry Sieman O'Brien	QX2944	2/26th Battalion (Infantry)	Second World War, 1939-1945
Preferred name	Service No.	Unit           Vietnam War	Conflict - Vietnam War
Kelly, Barry Walter	6410158	6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment	Vietnam, 1962-1975
Kerr, James Kelly	218508	B Squadron 1 Armoured Regiment (RAAC)	Vietnam, 1962-1975

 Captain Christopher Patrick John O'Kelly 

Victoria Cross - First World War, 1914-1918

Capt. Christopher Patrick John O’Kelly

 

Christopher Patrick John O’Kelly was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 18 November 1895. He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in 1915, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. While serving with the 52nd Infantry Battalion, CEF, O’Kelly received the Military Cross.

On 26 October 1917, Acting Captain O’Kelly led his company of the 52nd Battalion against German positions on Bellevue Spur, a network of defenses near Passchendaele in Belgium. Previously, other units had tried to attack this feature, but had been unsuccessful while suffering considerable losses. O’Kelly and his men advanced about one kilometer into the enemy positions, and captured six “pillbox” fortifications, ten machine guns and 100 prisoners. They then dug in and held their position against repeated German counterattacks until they were relieved. Later that day, O’Kelly and his company fought off another strong enemy counterattack, taking more prisoners in the process. Alert to German activity that night, they captured a raiding party of 11 soldiers. For his exemplary leadership throughout that day, Acting Captain O’Kelly was awarded the Victoria Cross.

On 15 November 1922, O’Kelly was drowned during a storm on Lac Seul, near Kenora, Ontario. His body was never found.

Citation

“For most conspicuous bravery in an action in which he led his company with extraordinary skill and determination.

After the original attack had failed and two companies of his unit had launched a new attack, Capt. O’Kelly advanced his command over 1,000 yards under heavy fire without any artillery barrage, took the enemy positions on the crest of the hill by storm, and then personally organised and led a series of attacks against ‘Pill-boxes,’ his company alone capturing six of them with 100 prisoners and 10 machine guns.

Later on in the afternoon, under the leadership of this gallant officer, his company repelled a strong counter-attack, taking more prisoners, and subsequently during the night captured a hostile raiding party consisting of one officer, 10 men and a machine gun.

The whole of these achievements were chiefly due to the magnificent courage, daring and ability of Capt. O’Kelly.”

(London Gazette, no.30471, 11 January 1918)

The 52nd (New Ontario) Battalion, CEF was raised in Northern Ontario during the Spring of 1915 with its mobilization headquarters at Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Ontario. The Battalion joined the 9th Brigade, 3rd Canadian Division on February 23, 1916 and thus began the trial by fire for the men of the north in the trenches of France and Belgium.

After the war, the men returned home and the 52nd was disbanded in the early 1920s with its Regimental Colours laid-up in St. John The Evangelist Anglican Church.

 Oct ’12

Capt. Thomas Joseph Kelly; Royal Flying Corps and Special Services. WW 1

General characteristics B.E 2 of the type flown by Capt Kelly. Crew: Two, pilot and observer Length: 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m) Wingspan: 37 ft 0 in (11.28 m) Height: 11 ft 1½ in (3.39 m) Wing area: 371 ft² (34.8 m²) Empty weight: 1,370 lb (623 kg) Loaded weight: 2,350 lb (1,068 kg)

Powerplant: 1 × RAF 1a air cooled V-8 engine, 90 hp (67 kW) Performance

Maximum speed: 72 mph (63 knots, 116 km/h) at 6,500 ft (1,980 m)

Endurance: 3 hr 15 min Service ceiling: 10,000 ft (3,050 m) Climb to 3,500 ft (1,070 m): 6 min 30 s Climb to 10,000 ft (3,050 m): 45 min 15 s

Armament Guns: Normally 1 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun for observer. (Very prone to stoppages) Bombs: 224 lb (100 kg) of bombs (With full bomb load usually flown as a singleseater, without machine gun)

I have this from Barbra Trumbull who I have been in touch with. I have researched this a little and feel Capt. Kelly had to have been in No.14 Squadron Royal Flying Corps. They saw action in Egypt 1916 - 17. Ed

One of my paternal grandfather's first cousins married Thomas Joseph Kelly on 28 Sept 1914 in Madhupur, Bengal, India He was born on 2nd May 1889 in South Mimms, Barnet, England. He was a cavalry officer in the Indian Army in 1915 pilot in Royal Flying Corps from 1916-1917 special services operations 1917. killed: 7 Nov 1917 by Turkish Troops in Gaza during WWI a large memorial to this group of men is in Gaza and each man was buried and an individual headstone installed. Might he be among your Kelly family?

Mayor Dominick Kelly

Major Dominick Kelly was born in Clonina, Cree Co Clare in April 1915. At the age of nine he was taken to Paris to live with his Aunt. He later moved to London and during the Second world war he operated under cover in France. Now retired, he lives in a suburb of Brussels where he settled after the war.

My aunt was governess to the family of the Duc de Massa who lived on the Avenue des Champs Elysées. It was hard to imagine a scene further from Clonina, all silverware and servants with the best of everything! I thought I had landed on the moon at first but I quickly settled in, and soon was speaking perfect french.

After I finished school, I trained to be a teacher, but then I decided it wasn’t for me and went to London where I joined the Metropolitan Police. It was while I was on the beat that I met my future wife, Zizi.

When war broke out I joined the Army and, because of my language skills, I was transferred to the Special Operations Executive. In 1943 I was parachuted into occupied France, and operating undercover, I set up an evacuation line from Brussels to Madrid. Later I found myself in Belgium organising air drops of guns and ammunition. After the war I worked as a Public Prosecutor for the Allied administration in Germany. I was demobilised in 1949 and settled in Brussels.

I worked for a Belgium investment bank for several years, then embarked on a career in business. I retired in 1981. My dear wife Zizi died some years ago and now I live alone. But I have wonderful neighbours and friends and my children and grandchildren come to see me when they can. Sometimes when I look at them I see again that barefoot little boy back in Co Clare, setting out for Paris and life’s great adventure.

 Note.
The SOE was the most secret of organisations, set up at the instigation of Winston Churchill in 1940. It was an amalgamation of three secret organisations, and during it’s existence seems to have had an acrimonious relationship with all arms of the War Department.

THE TALE OF NED KELLY
By Turtle Bunbury

 

As he reined up outside the Glenrowan Inn that fateful dawn, Ned Kelly’s mind was diverted. A bolt had slipped from the knee-length armour suit he was wearing. The 25-year-old outlaw eased himself out of the saddle to attend to the bolt. As he touched the ground, two volleys of gunfire exploded out of the ditches surrounding the inn.

 

Ned turned towards the inn where his gang members were holed up and walking towards them as fast as he could, his armoured suit clunking awkwardly.

 

A third volley caught him in the foot and his left arm. He swung back around to face his attackers, holding his rifle out with his right arm, and lurched towards them, firing at random.

Constable Arthur’s aim wasn’t bad that day. His first shot hit Ned square on the helmet, the next two hit him in the body. But still the bushranger came stumbling forward, reloading and firing his rifle. Two policemen lay down on the ground and began firing at his unprotected legs.

Ned Kelly gradually slumped to the ground as another blast peppered his hip and right hand.

Ned was the only member of the Kelly gang who did not die that day. Nearly five months would pass before he swung from the hangman’s noose in Melbourne Gaol.

In August 2011, Australia’s most famous outlaw was back in the news following the confirmation that a skeleton found in Melbourne Gaol was indeed his. 130 years after his execution, the Ned Kelly story remained of such significance to Australian culture that the news was announced by the Attorney General at a special press conference.

Kelly is certainly a controversial figure. For many, particularly wealthier Australians, he is regarded as a dangerous radical and cold-blooded cop killer. For others he was a folk hero who stood up against a poisonous system. In 1906, his life story was immortalized in the world’s first feature length movie.[i] Mick Jagger and Heath Ledger played him on the silver screen, Johnny Cash and Rolf Harris sang about him.

Outlaw, cattle rustler, bank robber, gunman. Ned Kelly’s story epitomizes the struggle by first and second generation Irish Catholics to establish themselves in British-run Australia.The Kelly story began in the Golden Vale of South Tipperary where a couple by name of Thomas and Mary Kelly lived in a makeshift cottage on a halfacre plot at Clonbrogan, one mile west from Moyglass village.

John, the eldest of their seven children was born on 20th February 1820 and, subsequently known as Red Kelly, he was destined to be the father of the notorious Australian bushranger.

The Kelly’s were part of Ireland’s vast pre-famine peasant population – virtually landless, utterly impoverished and frequently driven to crime. On 4th December 1840, John Kelly stole two pigs valued at £6 from James Cooney, a farmer, of Ballysheehan, near Cashel. He then walked the pigs 14 miles to the market in Cahir where he sold them.

However, the 21-year-old redhead was arrested soon afterwards and charged with pig theft at Cashel Court. He was found guilty and sentenced to 7 years penal servitude in Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania.[ii]

Red remained in gaol until the summer of 1841 when he boarded the convict ship ‘The Prince Regent’ in Dublin. On 7th August, he was one of 185 convicts who departed from Kingstown Harbour (Dun Laoghaire), reaching Van Diemen’s Land just under five months later. [iii]

Red spent the next six years labouring in Tasmania, primarily in a camp near Launceston. In 1848, he received his Certificate of Freedom but he was 18,000km away from his home in Clonbrogan and its fine views over Slievenamon.

Soon after his release, he crossed the Bass Strait to Port Philip, now Melbourne, and found work as a carpenter amid the Irish communities based around Donnybrook and Kilmore. In 1850 Red moved to Beverdige, a township 42km north of Melbourne, where he found work for James Quinn, an emigrant from Ballymena, Co. Antrim. In November 1850, he married Quinn’s daughter Ellen, who had come out to Australia as a young girl.

Seven children followed, including Edward, or Ned, their eldest son. Born in 1854 or 1855, Ned was baptised by Father Charles O’Hara, an Augustinian priest from Cork, who would administer the last rites to him 25 years later. It is assumed Ned and the older children were all born on the Quinn family farm in Beveridge but, in 1859, Red built his own shingle-roofed cottage at Beveride, complete with Irish-style open fireplace and earth floor, which still stands today. This is where Ned’s brother Dan was born in 1861. During the 1850s and early 1860s, Red supported his family through a combination of horse dealing, dairy farming and gold mining. He and Ellen also bought and sold land around Beveridge but ultimately their fortunes began to dwindle.

In 1864 Red sold his cottage for £80 and relocated the family, including five-year-old Ned, to a farm near Avenel, Victoria, where they rented 40 acres. However, an economic depression coupled with a crippling drought evidently drove Red to desperate measures. In 1865, quarter of a century after he was caught stealing pigs in Tipperary, he was arrested for stealing a calf in Avenel. The charge was actually dropped but he still served four months in gaol for "unlawful possession of a hide".

Red Kelly was now at the end of his life, his health broken by poverty and prison cells. The 46-year-old Irishman died of dropsy two days after Christmas 1866 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Avenel. His eldest son Ned, aged 11, signed his death certificate.

Within two years, Ellen and the children were living in a two-roomed hut at Eleven-Mile-Creek, near Greta, which reputedly doubled as a shebeen. Ned matured into a teenager with attitude. Other children regarded him as a hero because he once saved a fellow pupil from drowning at school.

Ned had no time for the law, whom he blamed for his fathers early death. In fact, the Kelly family were hit with a whopping 18 police charges between their arrival in Greta in 1868 and Ned’s eventual outlawing the years later. Historians are split over whether this means they were unfairly targeted by the authorities, or whether the Kellys were simply the baddest family in the district.

In 1869, Ned spent ten days in custody for assaulting and robbing a Chinese pig farmer with the improbable name of Ah Fook. Upon his release, he took up with a 50-year-old Waterford-born bushranger called Harry Power. Within a year, Power had been arrested and Ned was a marked man. In 1871, the 16-year-old was arrested with a stolen horse and sentenced to three years hard labour.

By the time of his release, Ned’s mother had married a Californian called George King who duly educated his Kelly stepsons in he fine art of cattlerustling. Ned’s run-ins with the police continued, most notably with an Irish constable called Lonigan who once squeezed his balls so hard that Ned vowed: “If I ever shoot a man, Lonigan, it'll be you!".

On 15th April 1878, the so-called “Kelly Outbreak” began when Alexander Fitzpatrick, a 21-year-old policeman, arrived up at their homestead, apparently stinking of alcohol, claiming he had a warrant to arrest Dan Kelly for horse theft. During this time the policeman is said to have made a lunge at Ned’s petite and slender 15-year-old sister Kate, for which he was beaten up and hounded of the land. He made his way to the police station at Benalla where he claimed Mrs. King (Ned’s mother) had whacked him with a coal shovel, Dan Kelly had thumped him and Ned Kelly had shot him in the wrist.

Arrest warrants were issued and soon, with Cork-born Sir Redmond Barry acting as Judge, Mrs. King was sentenced to three years behind bars, charged with attempted murder. She would remain in gaol until after Ned’s execution.

Meanwhile, Ned and Dan Kelly took flight into the Wombat Ranges where they soon had a price on their head. Two other sons of Irish immigrants now joined them. 21-year-old Joe Byrne came from a respectable family but had a passion for opium and was possessed of a cruel streak. 19-yearold Steve Hart, an amateur jockey, had spent 10 months in gaol for horsestealing. His subsequent attempt to lead a decent life came asunder when he memorably declared ‘"Here's to a short life and a merry one!’ and rode of to join the Kellys.

The Kelly gang based themselves in a series of caves, supplied at random intervals with clothes, food, ammunition and vital information by their sisters, Kate and Maggie. They also raised some basic funds panning for gold on abandoned diggings in the hills.

But the law was on their case. Aided by Aboriginal trackers, two bountyhunting police patrols began to close in. One comprised of four constables called Lonigan (Ned’s nemesis), Kennedy, Scanlon and McIntyre who were clearly there on an unofcial shoot-to-kill basis. The Kelly’s seized the initiative. On 26th October 1878, they ambushed Lonigan’s patrol at Stringybark Creek and shot three of them – including Lonigan - dead.

When news of the triple-murder got out, the gang were declared outlaws. Seven weeks later, they pulled of one of the greatest robberies in Australian history when they walked out of a bank in Euroa with over £2000 in banknotes and 30 ounces of smelted gold. Over the next four months, police rounded up 20 suspects whom they deemed to be Kelly accomplices, causing considerable resentment and hardening support for a gang that was fast achieving legendary status in north-east Victoria.

In February 1879, dressed as policemen, the Kelly gang orchestrated an even more spectacular robbery on the bank in Jerilderie, taking nearly £2,500. A handsome man with laughing eyes, Ned simultaneously wooed the people of Jerilderie when he began redistributing the gang’s newfound wealth amongst friend and supporters, as well as paying the tab at the local pub.

When they made good their escape from Jerilderie, they left behind a letter which, dictated by Ned, expressed his disapproval of the harsh treatment of his family by the police, and of Irish Catholics generally by the wealthy Protestant landowners. The letter was not published until its emergence in 1930. It now holds a proud place at the National Museum in Canberra. There is also said to have been a letter calling for the creation of a Republic of North-east Victoria. This letter forms the basis for those who regard Ned and his friends as Republican freedom-fighters. No evidence of this letter has survived.

The Kelly gang hid for the next sixteen months, evading capture at every step and growing impressively bushy beards. At one point they contemplated an exodus to California but things took a sudden turn for the dark side when Dan Kelly and Byrne gunned down a former friend called Pat Sherritt when they discovered he was a police informant.

The following day, sensing that the police were closing in, the Kelly gang found themselves in the small town of Glenrowan. On Byrne’s suggestion, the four men wore armoured suits down to their knees, forged from farm machinery. They tore up the railway line to prevent the police accessing the town by rail and then took 70 people hostage in the Glenrowan Inn. This included the schoolmaster Thomas Curnow whom Ned permitted to go home to collect his dancing boots. Dan Kelly, who was rather more intelligent than his older brother, questioned the wisdom of this and sure enough, once he was let go, Curnow got word to the police.

Unbeknownst to the Kelly gang, 34 policemen had surrounded the hotel by the time Ned Kelly dismounted his horse to check out the dodgy bolt in his armour. At about that same moment, Joe Byrne stood up to raise a glass of whiskey. "Here's to the bold Kelly Gang!" he said, as a bullet tore through the woodwork, ploughed into his groin and severed his femoral artery. He died from a loss of blood soon afterwards.

Two of the hostages were killed in the ensuing shoot out as Dan Kelly and Hart desperately tried to save Ned from capture. By the time Ned collapsed to the ground, seemingly dead, the Glenrowan Inn was a blazing furnace. The two men committed suicide, either by shooting themselves or taking poison. No autopsy was ever performed as their bodies were so badly burned in the fire. They were buried side by side in Greta Cemetery the next day.

But Ned Kelly was not dead. He spent the next 4 months in police custody before his trial. Sir Redmond Barry was again in the Judge’s chair. Ned’s sister Kate tried desperately to raise money for a good lawyer but Barry had no doubts what the sentence should be.[iv]

"May God have mercy on your soul", said Barry."I will go a little further than that, and say I will see you there when I go", replied Ned Kelly.

Ned was permitted a final meeting with his mother before he faced his executioner. "Mind you die like a Kelly", she urged him. He was hanged at 10 o'clock in the morning on 11th November 1880, allegedly saying ‘Such is life’ as his final words.

His body was pitched into a mass grave where it remained unidentified until the wonders of DNA matched him up with his great-great-nephew in August 2011. His skeleton will now go on display in Melbourne Museum as a stark reminder of Australia’s troubled colonial past. His skull remains at large.

And as for Sir Redmond Barry, he died unexpectedly from lung congestion twelve days after Ned’s execution.

With thanks to Jasper McCarthy (of McCarthy’s Bar & Undertakers, Fethard, who buried the last of the Clonbrogan Kellys), Terry Cunningham (Fethard Historical Society) and all involved with fethard.com

F O O T N O T E S

[i] You can see the 1906 film at YouTube.com [ii] John Kelly was also named as an accomplice to a man called Patrick Regan who stole ‘seven fat cows’ belonging to a neighbouring farmer, a Mr. Ryall from Moyglass. Red Kelly actually spilled the beans on Regan as the court reports noted "it was he (i.e. John Kelly) that gave information respecting Regan". However, it is not clear whether he talked because of a promise to reduce his sentence, or because he was under physical or mental pressure. In any event, Regan was sentenced to ten years servitude in the Australian colonies for cattle rustling. [iii] By the time the ship reached Cape Town, three convicts were dead. She finally docked on the Derwent River in Van Diemen’s Land on 2nd January 1842. For details of the ship’s Medical Journal, see nationalarchives.gov.uk [iv] Kate Kelly went down on her knees before the Marquis of Normanby, the Governor, begging for her brother's life. His Excellency refused to listen. She later appeared as a lady rider in a Wild West Show in Sydney under the assumed name of "Ada Hennessey". In 1888, she married a prosperous blacksmith but ten years later, depressed by the premature death of her sister Maggie, Kate appears to have drowned herself in a lagoon near Forbes at the age of 35. Ned’ s mother survived until 1923 and his brother Jim lived until 1946.

The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Private Hugh Massey Steele, born Rathdowney, Queens Co. Ireland in 1828, died 16th Jan1894.

His status is that he probably rode in the 'Charge of the Light Brigade'. He enlisted at the age of 18 years and was promoted after the charge on 1st Nov1854 and was invalided to England on 24th March1855. He was discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on 12th July1855 being disabled after frost bite of toes and feet in the Crimea. He was entitled to the Crimea medal with clasps 'Alma' Balaclave' 'Inkerman' and Sebastopal. He lived in Melbourne from 10/10/1857. Hugh Steele proudly wore his mementoes of his ordeal in Crimea, two Silver medals, one of which was presented personally by Queen Victoria, bearing his name and his Regiment (8th Hussars) also on four lines the names of the four great features of that campaign Alma, Balaclave, Inkerman and Sebastopol. The other medal was presented by the Sultan of Turkey "La Crimea 1855 one of the 600. No more than one third came out of that singular dash. He died in Cootamundra NSW aged 66 years. He was a Methodist and left a widow and four children aged from 9 years to 21 years.His other brother Arthur Loftus Steele (Sergeant of Police Victoria) was responsible for the capture of Ned Kelly, an in famous Irish outlaw in Australia.

Steele, Arthur Loftus (?–1914)

The hero of another day has slipped quietly into his grave at Wangaratta (says the Melbourne correspondent of the Sun). Sergeant Arthur Loftus Maule Steele was known throughout the Victorian country police—he was to them the link with the great days of the country police. But with the public this fine old warrior-policeman, this relic of stirring times, was forgotten. Romance is going from the country police, who have to chase electoral cards now instead of track bushrangers, and the public is losing its interest.

Steele figured in many splendid exploits, and will go down to history as Ned Kelly's captor. He spent practically all his life at Wangaratta, where he became seniorconstable and later sergeant in charge of the station, and his power was sufficient to keep his own district safe. Desperadoes, of whom there were many on the Victorian roads in his young days, avoided Steele and Steele's men. He took oaths against them, and made no secret of them. And he was a dead shot and a fine bushman, qualities which gave him an excellent chance of fulfilling his vows.

Steele's acquaintance with the Kelly gang commenced before Ned Kelly and his three dare-devils terrorised the north-eastern district. Steele knew the family, and Ned Kelly always vowed that he carried about a grudge against the police officer from the days of his youth. Obviously the two never liked each other. They each "looked" high and low for the other. There was certain to be killing as soon as they met after Kelly had been proclaimed, by special Act of Parliament, an outlaw. Steele swore that he would shoot the outlaw. Kelly swore that he would get even with his police foe. The public has forgiven Kelly much during these years, and it can afford now, to think of the strange, romance in that final meeting between the two men—Kelly smitten by Steele's bullets fighting furiously in his ploughshare armor as he recognised in his captor the foe of his early days.

The "battle of Glenrowan" stands second in the list of sensational Australian shootings—we can still say that Glenrowan and Eureka have been our greatest battles. But the conquest of the Kellys was more than a battle—it was a war. It cost the country £115,000, and it proceeded continuously for five months. In this Steele was the commanding officer of a small scouting unit. He was kept in the Wangaratta district, though he should have been brought down into the centre of the war theatre. He had from seven to 10 men under him, and so muddled were the police arrangements that this reserve was seldom called up until the Kellys, with that bloodthirsty determination and expert bush skill that made them terrible foes, had fought their way through police ranks and escaped into their bush retreats.

Had Steele been in the shoes of the unfortunate Sergeant Kennedy, the Glenrowan battle would probably never have been fought. After the earliest Kelly outrages, in the beginning of 1878, two parties of police were sent into the Wombat Ranges to find the bushrangers—one party under Kennedy and the other under Steele. It was Kennedy's fortune, or misfortune, to meet the outlaws. He was shot with one of his constables, and by the time the Steele section had come upon the scene the gang was away—Kelly riding neck-or-nothing on his wonderful and beloved grey, the others scattered about the country, secure with the friends who, law-abiding though they appeared to be, loved these daring outlaws as if they were their country's saviours.

The Kellys got far into New South Wales after the Wombat outrages, far away from Steele and the Victorian police, and Sir Henry Parkes, the New South Wales Premier of the day, awoke one morning to hear that the Victorian outlaws were plundering his richest province. With characteristic promptitude Parkes clapped on £3000 to the Victorian reward of £4000, and induced the border banks to add £1000. This made £8000 for the gang, or £2000 for each man, and surely if the Kelly mountain friends were to be bought this sum would have finished the bushrangers' savage career. But Parkes could not buy those who loved Ned Kelly. The £8000 reward was as nothing. Looked at from this distant date, it says something for the loyalty of men and women that the huge price of £2000 a head did not bring about the sale of the bushrangers.

This was a more daring, more determined, more savage, more skilled gang than any that had ravaged Australian country districts, and to say that the police were beaten is to put it mildly. Steele used to tell in Wangaratta how the authorities handicapped the policemen and bungled the campaign. But at least part of the blame is attachable to the force itself, which was poorly armed, ill-led, and no match for the Kellys in bushmanship. After the Wombat murder the public awakened, and the authorities were denounced as fiercely as the murderers. The Kellys used rifles and heavy revolvers; the police were given only revolvers. The Kellys got secretly plentiful supplies of ammunition; the police were insufficiently supplied. When at last the police heads sought rifles, they could not get them, and the men sent to hound down the fully-equipped bushrangers had to be content with £8 breech-loading shot guns, these being the most dangerous firearms the Government could procure in Melbourne. Talking coolly on the Glenrowan railway station after his capture, Kelly said that nothing had astonished him more than that the police should have kept peppering away at him with shot guns. He wondered why they had not got rifles.

Steele said that he always knew that he would be the final cause of Ned Kelly's undoing. He had vowed that his bullet would bring the outlaw down, and with that unquestioning faith that distinguishes such strange beliefs he never wavered, even in the days when the Kellys were being hard pressed in districts far removed from Wangaratta, in this assertion. When the Kellys attempted their greatest exploit, and Melbourne was stirred with the news that the little township of Glenrowan was being held up, Steele was one of the first men sent for. A special train was at once despatched from Melbourne with strong forces of police, guns, and doctors, but Steele and his Wangaratta men had arrived before these Melbourne men were near the scene. Steele had his men round the hotel in which the Kellys were encamped, and his guns were showering bullets on the windows before Superintendent Hare had his forces disposed of. But even then Steele nearly missed his chance. During the night Ned Kelly escaped—left his mates, dead and dying, in the barricaded hotel, and rode hard into the bush. He came upon two troopers, men who the next day took a prominent part in his capture, and could have shot both. But some strange feeling of compassion was on Kelly that night. Instead of adding to his list of murders—he would not have scrupled at other times—he rode back to Glenrowan again passed safely through the lines of the police, and re-entered the hotel. "I wanted to see the finish," he said afterwards. "Yes. I wanted it to finish." Perhaps also there was a feeling in him that he was safe from harm in his queer armor—the breastplates, helmet, and thigh-plates made from old ploughs, that made him appear to the police as though he bore a charmed life amid bullets. Even to the end Kelly seemed to think that he could shoot all the police, and that they could not harm him.

But Steele got him. The reserved, quiet, calm-minded sergeant—the modest country police officer who was more a garden philosopher than a match for fierce Ned Kelly —had reached the great moment for which he had waited and planned. Steele's story of the final shooting is worth giving, now that its hero has passed:— "I got to the tree at the back of the hotel. There was no firing then. A woman and child came to the back door screaming. They were from the frenzied group of residents whom the Kellys had penned up in the hotel. I told the woman to run back quick or she might be shot. A man then came to the door, and I told him to throw up his arms or I would shoot. He was only 25 yards away. He stooped and ran for the stable and I fired. He turned and ran back to the house and I fired again. I am certain I hit him with the second shot, as he screamed and fell against the door. (This was one of the bushrangers afterwards found dead.) There was then some hot firing, and the bullets whistled all round me. The firing was kept up for some time, and some of the men behind me called out. It was then breaking day. I looked round and saw a man stalking down. I thought he was a blackfellow and called on the others to be careful. I then saw him present a revolver and fire at a policeman. I could see the bullets hitting him and staggering him for a moment (this was the effect of the bullet blows on the armor). They had no further effect. I therefore thought he had armor on, and determined to have a close shot at him. I ran towards him, and when within 10 yards he turned round and fired at me. I fired then at his legs and he staggered, but still tried to fire at me. I then fired the second barrel at his legs. We were in the open and he fell and cried, 'I'm done, I'm done.' I ran up to him then, and he turned savagely and tried to shoot me, but I pushed the revolver down. I had a great scuffle with him, but others ran up and his shots had no effect. We found a bag of ammunition, and when we divested him of his armor we found that he was weak from loss of blood, and bore three wounds— two I had given him in the legs and a third in a toe. I was strained in the scuffle, but we got our man."

Kelly was hanged, and decapitated in the process.Steele received a reward and a comfortable sustenance as head of the Wangaratta police. Steele's days became quiet. The garden occupied more and more of his time. But occasionally he was called out. An interesting incident regarding his work as gold escort is mentioned by Superintendent Milne, the second in charge of Victorian police. Milne remembers Steele's vigorous days well, and one of the curious facts he recollects is that the names of one of Steele's gold escorts were Steele, Flint, Pepper, and Salt.

 Clare General who befriended a king

British Royal family connections to West Clare: the future George V stayed in Doolough Lodge in the Kilmurry Ibrickane parish as a guest of his friend, Lieutenant General Thomas Kelly-Kenny in 1906

Thomas Kelly-Kenny, a Clare man who had a long military career, was a notable figure in 19th century history. At a time when senior military figures were aristocrats who saw war as a sport, Kelly-Kenny worked his way up through the ranks and was respected by the rank and file soldiers.

Kelly-Kenny was born Thomas Kelly on 27 February 1840 at Doolough Lodge, Treanmanagh, near Mullagh, Co Clare*. He later took the surname Kelly-Kenny upon inheriting the estates of his uncle, Mathias Kenny.
He was appointed ensign without purchase in the 1st Battalion, 2nd (The Queen’s Royal) Regiment of Foot at the age of 18 and was ADC to the general officer commanding Cape of Good Hope by 1860. He was further appointed lieutenant and later captain by 1866. He was Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General in Bombay from 1869-70. He took part in the Afghanistan campaign, the Opium wars in China and the Abyssinian War of 1867-68. Promoted to colonel in 1887 he was assistant adjutant general in Aldershot until the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1901.

 

His most prominent role came in the Boer War by which time he was a lieutenant-general in command of the 6th Division. He was twice mentioned in despatches and received the Queen’s South African Medal with four clasps. He was involved in the relief of Kimberley, the battles of Paardeberg, Poplar Grove and Driefontein and was well regarded by historians for his role.
The war was a major engagement for the British Empire and Irish troops played a large role. At the conclusion of the war, the triumphal arch was built at the corner of St Stephen’s Green in Dublin and can be seen there to this day. (get photo)
At the battle of Paardeberg, he had a conservative plan to besiege a Boer army of 5,000 soldiers under General Piet Cronje and bombard his force from a safe distance with superior artillery. The Boers were entrenched in a bend of the Modder River near Kimberley, having advanced from south of the Modder River.
When Field Marshal Frederick Roberts became ill, he appointed Lieutenant General Herbert Kitchener as commander, even though Kelly-Kenny was a senior officer. Historians have suggested that Kelly-Kenny would not have been in good favour with the aristocratic officers and that differences had emerged on the outward voyage, Kitchener had become known as ‘Kitchener of Khartoum’ due to his success against the Dervishes in the Sudan, which was a campaign against a much less organised type of African than the Boer. The Boer soldiers were sharpshooters and were well equipped with Mauser rifles. They were citizens of a republic fighting in defence of their own country and were not easily beaten in battle. They were superior horsemen and were adapted to the climate and the conditions.

Kitchener overruled Kelly-Kenny and ordered an assault on the Boer trenches on ‘Bloody Sunday’,18 February 1900. The advance was over 800m of ground with no cover and the Boers held their fire until the British soldiers were within 100m. The British were pinned and the battle continued until nightfall when the British withdrew. Kitchener issued contradictory orders and did not use the proper chain of command in giving his orders. The result was that the British side suffered 1,250 casualties, with another 2,000 poisoned later by drinking the polluted water from the Modder River. Historians agree that had a professional solder like Kelly-Kenny retained command at Paardeberg, the term ‘Bloody Sunday’ would not have been coined on that day.
When Roberts heard about the losses he left his sick bed, sent Kitchener to look after a railway line and retook command that evening. With the Boers trapped, he ordered the digging of trenches and a bombardment, which continued for nine days. The surviving Boer soldiers – around 4,000 in total – surrendered.
After that point, the war became a series of guerrilla skirmishes. The British Empire went on to win the war by coercion of the non-military population, which mainly involved burning the Boer farms and imprisoning the Boer women and children in concentration camps. This policy was run by Kitchener.
After the Boer War, Kelly-Kenny became adjutant general to the forces. He toured Japan as part of a mission to present the Order of the Garter to the Emperor during a period when Japan had begun to open up to the outside world and the British Empire was trying to gain influence.
King George V was a friend of his and the king took a keen interest in Irish affairs, including trying to avert civil war in the period after the Curragh mutiny. It is recorded that the king visited Doolough Lodge in 1906**.

 

Kelly-Kenny’s orders, decorations and medals included the Star of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Royal Victorian Order (GCVO cr 1906), Queen Victoria Jubilee medal, Coronation medal 1902, China War medal 1857-60, Abyssinian War medal 1867-68, Queen’s South Africa medal 1899-1902, The Order of the Red Eagle (Knight Grand Cross) of Prussia and the Order of the Rising Sun awarded by the Mikado Emperor of Japan.

The General retired in 1907 and in 1909 agreed to sell over 5,000 acres of land to the Congested Districts’ Board. He died in 1914 in Sussex, England and is buried in a graveyard in Hove, Sussex.

Article reproduced with the kind permission of the Clare Champion.

 

The Fusiliers Arch, St. Stephens Green, Dublin. In memory of Irishmen who died during the Boer War.
Note; ¬Amongst Gen. Sir Thomas Kelly surviving relatives is Joe A Kelly, of Northampton.
* He was born in Kilrush
** Doolough was first a herdsman's hut and later a hunting Lodge.

KELLYS IN INDIA.

KELLY - Colonel William - 24th Foot

d. 21st August 1818.

Memorial at St. Mary's Church, Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire -

"Sacred to the memory of Colonel William Kelly CB Lieut Col of His Majesty's 24th Regt of Foot who departed this life at Littlecott the 21st of August 1818. Colonel Kelly's services were extended to the four quarters of the globe He was severely wounded at the Battle of the Pyrnees and exhausted afterwards by his successful exertions in the Nepaul War in India he returned only to breathe his last with his friends admired in his profession as a soldier and esteemed by all as a man."

KELLY - Lieutenant-Colonel Edward

- died 6th August 1828.

Born in 1771 at Portarlington, Queen's County. Wounded at Waterloo (Captain, 1st Life Guards. Received Russian Order of St. Anne). Served 23rd Light Dragoons in India.

Grave at Mullye -

"Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Kelly of His Majesty's Service, who died on the 6th August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. This gallant officer served His Majesty with distinction in Flanders, Spain, and at Waterloo, where he was severely wounded; he was present at the capture of the fortress of Bhurtpore, and subsequently served in Ava, where he contracted the disease which proved fatal to him. As a last mark of regard and esteem the Right Honorable the Viscount Combermere, GCB Commander-in-Chief, in whose Staff Lieut-Col. E. Kelly came to India, and his brother officers of the Staff, have erected this monument."

 

A brief bio. on Col. Charles O' Kelly. 1621 - 1695.

He took part in the Aughrim battle and many of the other conflicts in the Connaught area. He was
Involved at the negotiations in Limerick when terms were agreed, and he was from only a
few miles down the road from Aughrim, and wrote a book about his wartime experiences.
This was the only book written from the irish point of view. Macarie Excidium - “The
Destruction of Cyprus".
His brother John was in his regt. and fought beside him as his Lt Col. His only son, Denis,
was a Captain in My Lord Galmoy’s unit. There is no doubt that this Ó Kelly family was fully
committed to the royal cause.
He was line 39 from Maine Mor and ninth Lord of the Manor of Screen.
Classical scholar – professional soldier – politician – author – nobleman.

1621 – born in Skrine Castle which was south east of the village of Athleague, in the area
of Rahara known for it’s very steep hill.
1633 – school at age of 12 he leaves home and travels to St. Omer college in the north of
France and starts a classical education.
Because of the penal laws, children would have to travel on their own. Dangerous for
parents to travel with them, they could be arrested and imprisoned if caught.
Many children used a false name and gave an alias.
He was a brilliant student. “His progress was extensive in the knowledge of the belles
lettres; in addition to Irish, English, Latin and Greek tongues. He became acquainted with
the Flemish, Spanish, French and Italian languages.” Thats eight languages.
Even then his love of Country was acknowledged and he was known as the “Irish Patriot”.
St Omer college has an interesting history. It was founded in 1593 by a Jesuit priest,
Father Robert Pearsons.
First located in Artois, France, which was part of the Spanish Netherlands at that time.
It was set up during the penal laws. when Irish and English children of aristocratic families
could not receive a Catholic education and many were forced to go to Europe, otherwise it
was a private education which was very risky, or the option here in ireland would be a
hedge school.

King Philip II of Spain was a patron of the college.
Fought under the flag of the Marquise of Ormonde.

1641 – at age 20 he was summoned home.
Civil war had broken out in the autumn of 1641 and he was summoned home to
join the royal cause. His father John acquired the rank of Colonel and
distinguished himself during the war under the flags of the Marquises of Ormond
and Clanrickard and as a result, the family sufered under the Cromwellian’s. In
the Restoration, all of their estates were restored to them.
1642
Young Charles had first joined the colours in Europe during the reign of King
Charles Ist. and on returning to Ireland obtained the command of a troop of horse
under the Marquis of Ormonde and distinguished himself in the royal army on
several occasions, while the war lasted.
1649ish -After the Cromwellian victory Charles O’Kelly with 2,000 fellow
countrymen retired into the Spanish dominions to serve Charles II, as he had
previously served his father. On hearing that King Charles was in France, O’Kelly
went there with most of the officers and men who had accompanied him to the
continent. He was commissioned by the King to form a regiment which was under
his command.
1660ish -When Cardinal Mazarin of France and Oliver Cromwell signed a treaty of
alliance against Spain, and as a result, the banished English royal family had to leave
France and go to Spain. Spain accorded the Irish equal rights as Spanish citizens.
Charles O’Kelly with other loyal exiles transferred his services to the crown of Spain. O’Kelly stayed in Spain until the reinstatement of the English monarchy in 1660. He then went to England where he stayed until his father died in 1674. He then returned to Ireland to succeed to the family estates as Ninth Lord of the
Manor of Screen.
1687 – nominated as a Burgess for the town of Athlone, (a County councillor) by Charter of
King James II.(d. 1685) In the reign of King James II Charles O’Kelly’s younger brother John O’Kelly of
Clonlyon (near the present town of Ballygar), was High Sherif of the County of
Roscommon in1686. Charles O’Kelly and his brother John were two of twenty four Burges of the
reformed Corporation of Athlone in 1687.
1688 - SUPPORTED King James II revolution in England and Scotland.
1689 – elected to a Parliamentary seat for the County of Roscommon.
1689 – June or July of that year he was commissioned to raise a regiment of infantry by
King James 11.
Not on the Army list, nor were three other Ó Kelly regt’s that were formed at the time.
As the political situation in Ireland deteriorated he was detailed by Brig Patrick Sarsfield,
39 years his junior, to engage the hostile troops of King William of Orange in the
Connaught region.
Like his father before him, He served in Lord Mountcashal’s force and his Regt. took a
hammering in various engagements against the Enniskillens.

The flag of Justin McCarthy's Regiment.

By and large the fortunes of war did not favour him, nor the Jacobite cause. In August of
1689 Justin McCarthy’s regiment was virtually destroyed at Newtownbutler.
The remaining Irish troops withdrew but was shortly afterwards Charles was again in
battle. A few weeks later in September 1689 – as a result of a surprise attack in the Boyle area of
Roscommon, his post was overrun. He was in command of a force made up of local militia.
These were irregulars and maybe even rapparees. After a 10 mile chase he again
escapes, this time with his Cavalry. 40 of his officers were captured and approximately
8000 cattle in his charge were confiscated. This would suggest his role was also logistical.
His opponent in that engagement was Col, Thomas Lloyd known as 'the Little Cromwell'.
Nothing more is heard of Col Ó Kelly till Aughrim.
It could be he was captured and later made his escape, or else he called to his home in
Screen. (Skrine)
1691 – 22nd of July.- Gregorian calendar (new style) -
It’s not known if he was at the Boyne but he next appeared at the Aughrim battle still
supporting the Jacobite cause.

His role in the battle is unclear. It looks like he was now without a command, so he could
have been in one of the regimental HQ’s. It was at Aughrim he nearly looses his son. Capt
Denis, who was in Lord Galmoy’s Regt. had his horse shot from under him in the fighting.
Fighting At Galway
1691 – 26th of July surrender of Galway. It was at Galway his brother John along with a
Capt. Richard Martin were held as hostages, while the terms for the fall of Inis Bofin were
being discussed.
Sometime after the fall of Galway and during the siege of Limerick, while holding a strong
point at Lough Glin, near Sligo, he met Captain Baldearg Ó Donnel ( later Brigadier in the
Williamite cause). Ó Donnel was well in advance with his plans to join the other side, and,
trying his best Col Charles was unsuccessful in getting Ó Donnel to change his mind. In face of overwhelming superior forces this post was later surrendered and he makes his
way to Limerick, a journey of about 120 miles, not bad for a man who now 70 years of age.

The Irish charge at Aughrim
1691 – 13th of October Treaty of Limerick.
When the Irish troops reformed in Limerick, he was adamant that Col Henry Luttrell
should be court-martialed for treason and executed.
His argument fell on deaf ears but as we know, Luttrell, although well rewarded,
subsequently paid with his life when he was murdered in Dublin some years later. The
story of Luttrell’s treachery has been confirmed to me by a member of the Luttrell family.
He was not part of the negotiating party because he did not want to surrender and his
views were well known. His motto was ‘consistency, no capitulation, and confidence in
God’
Treaty Stone with John’s Castle in the background.

1691- he retires to his estate in Aughrane castle and writes two books. The first Macarie
Excidium was somewhat written in code and is the only book written from the Irish
perspective. Col Ó Kelly for the purpose of secrecy gave Latin pseudonymous to 18 of the main players
and locations.
‘Macarie’ could be taken from the ancient Greek. He makes a comparison between the
island of Cyprus and the island of Ireland. In his book he refers to Ireland as Cyprian. So
Macarie Excidium could well be translated as -- The Destruction of Ireland. The book
concentrated on the military situation rather than the politics.
It was written in the first instance in Latin and later translated by Denis Henry Kelly of
Castle Kelly (Ballygar) - a very learned but unsavory man by all accounts. Dennis Henry
was related to the Col. It transpired that another relative living in France by the name of
Count Henry Ó Kelly Farrell had in his possession the actual original version. Both copies
were compared and found to be the same. The work of editing and printing was
commissioned by the Irish Archaeological Society based in Dublin in 1844.
A shortened version had been published earlier in London.
Copious notes by John Cornelius Ó Callaghan accompany the publication of 1845.
Another book of great interest to the O’Kelly clan, and students of Irish social history, is
the “Tribes and Customs of Hy Many, or  Kelly Country”. This book was written by
Donovan in the early 1840s. Although a surveyor, his interest was genealogy. While in the
Galway/Roscommon area in pursuance of his work, he interviewed many of the surviving
members of the O’Kelly clan. This included Dennis Henry Ó Kelly of Aughrane. It was from
he he got a lot of information, and this is shown on the very interesting and extended chart
of the O’Kelly of Ui Maine families.
His second book, I understand, is more descriptive and goes into greater military and
political detail. We are led to believe the original copy of this book was destroyed but a
copy is still in the possession of the family of Count Henry Ó Kelly Farrell of Montauban,
France.
1695 - Col Charles Ó Kelly dies, broken hearted, aged 74 in Aughrane Castle, his home.
This was later rebuilt by Denis Henry Ó Kelly as Castle Kelly near Ballygar.
His immediate family;

His Grand father Cola Ó Kelly d 1614,  commanded a Regt of Foot for the English, at Kinsale. 
He supposedly had an affair with Queen Elizabeth.
His father, John Kelly of Aughrane was married to Isma Hill the daughter of Sir William Hill
of Carlow.
Col Charles was married to Margaret O'Kelly of Gallagh, who were also one of the old Ui
Maine families. They had one son, Dennis who fought in my lord Galmoy’s Regiment at
Aughrim. Col Charles was from one of Irelands oldest families.
He was a highly motivated man with a deep love for his country and a strong believer in
his religion. These, I feel, were his main motivation and driving force behind his actions.
He was once described by a contemporary -‘ he was always highly esteemed for his
learning, loyalty, and great services both at home and abroad’.
He was a brave man - very determined - very committed - strong sense of Justice.
He was intelligent - strong - principled - tenacious - courageous - in every way a patriot,
and the worthy descendant of Maine Mor.
I think he is a man that we can be proud of.

                     Forget not the field where they perished,
                    The trusted, the last of the brave,
                    All gone – and the bright hope we cherished,
                    gone with them, and clenched in the grave!
                                                                                                Thomas Moore.

Feach tu ag Eachroim.

Note. The Regimental flags of Ormond and Mountcashal are authentic reproductions of
the actual flags.
These flags have not been flown in Aughrim in 322 years.

Map by Tomas Ó Brogain
Joe. Aug. '13