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Second Lieutenant Francis John Elliot McFarland MC

 

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Second Lieutenant Francis John Elliot McFarland MC, 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, formerly Private, North Irish Horse (Service No. 2207). Killed in action on 22 July 1918. Having no known grave, his name is inscribed on Panel 140, Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

The Battalion diary for that day states:

12.45am. B Company under Captain Murphy DCM MC and 2nd Lieutenants Reynolds, Leahy, Radcliffe and McFarlane [sic] and No.15 Platoon of D Company raided Shoddy Farm. One prisoner was captured and thirty others were estimated to be killed. Our casualties: Two Officers and five Other Ranks missing with eleven slightly wounded. The enemy put down a machine-gun barrage followed by artillery support while the party was in No Man's Land. We also captured two light machine-guns, one of which was lost through the carrier becoming a casualty. During day and following night ordinary activity on either side. A Platoon patrolled at night in search of missing men with no success.

 

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