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Lance Corporal Rowland Irvine Bradley

 

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Lance Corporal Rowland Irvine Bradley, Royal Flying Corps, formerly North Irish Horse, Service No. 907. Born Charlemont, Moy, County Tyrone. Enlisted Dungannon. Embarked for France with the North Irish Horse on 17 August 1914 as part of A Squadron. Killed in action on 20 May 1917. (See clipping from The Irish Times below.) Buried at Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, Nord. France, grave I.E.23. The gravestone inscription reads:

907 LANCE CPL.

R. I. BRADLEY

NORTH IRISH HORSE

20TH MAY 1917

 

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Image kindly provided by Richard Evans. See his website Nelson, Glamorgan and the Great War http://www.nelson-ww1-memorial.org.uk. Newspaper clipping from The Irish Times, 9 June 1917.