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[crackingbloke]

Hi
I hope someone might be able to advise me. While researching a soldier of the Great War who served in the Lincolnshire Regiment the desendents have told me that he was wounded while serving in Ireland during the Easter rising.  His papers show that he was wounded but no mention of service in Ireland.  Could anyone suggest which battalion this would have been.  Also would this have been described as "Home" in his service papers.
Many thanks
Guy

[munster]

Hi Guy Ireland would have been described as home.john

[connaughtranger]

2/4th & 2/5th Lincolns were in Ireland with the 59th Division
Regards
Martin

[wig]

They were very prominent in Ireland.  capt. Hitzon took the surrender of Eamon De valera and his story has been recorded somewhere on the site.  Search for Hitzon and Ireland

[crackingbloke]

Thank you all very much for your help. Do we know if these battalions came out of Ireland and went to France by 7th June 1916?
As mentioned, the relatives say he was in Ireland during the Easter Rising but our man was wounded in France 11 July 1916.  Could this be possible, I have doubts.
Regards
Guy

[tony paley]

Guy,
  We do the 2/4th and 2/5th Lincolnshire Regt.were in 176 Infantry Brigade of the 59th (2nd North Midland)Division.  the division was transferred to Ireland from England on the 25th april, 1916 to assist the units based in and around Dublin.  The advanced brigade, 178th, composed entirely of Battalions of the Sherwood foresters arrived on the 26th April,1916. the 177th and 178th Brigades wre deployed in the area of Ballsbridge.  It was in this area, notably Mount street Bridge, that the Sherwood foresters came into action. the division returned to England in January 1917, then on to France in February 1917.

[crackingbloke]

Thank you Tony.
In my mind that clears the point up. The man I am interested was wounded in France and was in a french hospital in July 16, so he could not have been in Ireland during the rising.  The family ledgeon must have got muddled up over the decades, which is quite understandable.
very many thaks
Guy

[toofatfortakeoff]

Note its Captain von Hitzen.  There is a photo of him in Kilmainham meeting de Valera again after 49 years whe nthe prison was reopened as a historical monument. He was most likely the son of von Hitzen the German naval attach at Grimsby in the 1890s.

[KizmeRD]

I have just discovered this thread and I was extremely interested in the information I've read here.
My relative was with the 176th Bge. and was apparently shot in the ankle in Dublin during the Easter Rising, thereafter being sent to to the Western Front where he finally met his end.
BLOY, Bertie, Lance Corporal, Service No: 201214, 2/4^th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment.
Date of Death: 29/09/1917 (age 22), buried Mendinghem Military Cemetery
- Does Tony, or anyone else know where in Dublin the 176th were deployed, and where they were barracked?
Rgds,
Mike

[gunner parr]

I have a photocopy of the Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook which lists all military and civilian casualties (including wounded) in the Easter Rising yet there is no listing for any casualty from the Lincolnshire Regiment.  Plenty of Sherwood Foresters, North and South Staffs but no Lincolns. Perhaps they are listed in a later edition?? FYI, pdf versions of the Handbook can be downloaded from several on-line sites.

[KizmeRD]

He's definately not mentioned as a casualty in the Handbook, so therefore I assume that his injury must have been picked up at some other time, prior to his unit's departure from Ireland in Jan 1917.
I'm hoping to visit Kew sometime during Autumn - so hopefully I'll then be able to discover something that may help me get to the bottom of the story.
Thanks anyway.
Mike