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Lieutenant WILLIAM OLIVER FORTESQUE DARLING

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Rifles

3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 October 1915

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

Y FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, BOIS-GRENIER

K. 30.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the Rev. Oliver Warner Darling and the late Edith Darling (nee Dunn). Native of Duncannon, Co. Wexford.
  • Personal Inscription "THINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD THE KING IN HIS BEAUTY" ISAIAH XXXIII.17
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Buried or commemorated at

Y FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, BOIS-GRENIER
Nord France
Number of casualties: 837
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