Anyone from Northern Ireland see newsline show this evening where tried to trace a Soldier from the Crumlin Road in Belfast called Blackadder!

Hi Markinbelfast, I saw that earlier this evening too. I see he was a local lad coming from Tobergill Street.
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_detail...casualty=454008

Just checked Ancestry. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be any surviving service records.

One of Dessie's ancestors, perhaps?

Here's Thomas BLACKADDER's MIC on TNA:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...p;resultcount=1

Royal Irish Rifles 19/709 Private

Grant

I missed it ... so I've been told by half the town.

Probably far out, my old fella had relatives up round the Road at a time.

Des