Private James Donohue
'A' Company, 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Regimental Number
10315
Born:
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Died:
1916-07-01
Aged:
32
Enlisted:
Enlisted Derry.
Name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, Somme, France.
Son of Mr and Mrs I. M. Donohue, 76, Servia St, Belfast.
Private Donohue, who was serving with his regiment in India at the outbreak of the Great War, was well known in Derry, where he lived with his grandmother, Mrs Jane McLaughlin, Fountain Hill, Waterside, for a considerable period.
Writing to deceased's mother, Reverend F. Devas, chaplain, said: 'Everybody ? officers and men ? valued him, as he was so kind hearted, witty, and always in the best of spirits. I heard your son's Confession and gave him Absolution the night before the advance, and he had been at Holy Communion a few days before.'