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Lance Corporal Joseph Deery

 

Deery

 

Lance Corporal Joseph Deery, 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Service No. 41244. Formerly North Irish Horse, Service No. 2013. Born Castlederg, County Tyrone. Enlisted Dublin. Residence Castlederg. Son of Andrew and Catherine Deery of Goland, Castlederg. Killed in action on 11 October 1918, aged 24. Buried at Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Moorslede, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave IV.B.16. The gravestone inscription reads:

41244 LANCE CPL.

J. DEERY

ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS

11TH OCTOBER 1918 AGE 24

 

Image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.