Gnr John O´Driscoll- 42396 RGA(14th Bty)

 

There is no "Soldiers Effects" file and no Irish death cert although the abstract exists. I don´t think he was serving in Ireland when he died. He has CWGC recognition

 

1895 Sept born Blarney, Cork, Ireland. Parents Mortimer Thomas and Margaret (Sheehan) O’Driscoll

1901 census Monacappa, Blarney, Cork

1911 census at Ardamadane , Blarney

1915 May 20 14th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery arrived in France

1915 June 24 Gunner John (Jack) O’Driscoll disembarked in France

1920 Dec 14th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (4 Medium Brigade) was at Shoeburyness, southeast Essex, England, at the mouth of the Thames Estuary.

 

1921 Mar 3. Died at Waterloo Rd, Blarney, Cork of Phthisis and death reported by his brother Mortimer

His brother William was drowned while serving in North Russia

 

 

 

British Soldiers died in Ireland