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Private Samuel Devine

 

Devine

 

Private Samuel Devine, 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Service No. 41156. Formerly 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (Service Squadron), Service No. UD/56, and 2nd Regiment North Irish Horse. Born Liverpool. Enlisted Enniskillen. Residence Brookeborough, County Fermanagh. Died in England on 24 February 1918. Buried at Gloucester Old Cemetery, England, grave NG.249. The gravestone inscription reads:

9/41156 PRIVATE

S. DEVINE

ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS

24TH FEBRUARY 1918

 

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