Joe’s War: One Irish Soldier’s Path Through Gallipoli, the Somme and Beyond…

Joe’s War: One Irish Soldier’s Path Through Gallipoli, the Somme and Beyond…

PillinPillin are Slugger readers living in Spain My Grandfather was a Private in the Royal Irish Fusiliers. He fought at Gallipoli and on the Somme. We learned the following from the RIF museum. Of the 16,000 who volunteered in Armagh, Fermanagh and Tyrone only about 600 survived. So my family´s existence hangs by a thin thread. In all at least 200,000 served and 49,435 Irish soldiers died in the First World War. The 10th Division was the first …