Irish Soldiers in World War I - from local history to international history

By choosing ‘Wars’ on the Irish War Memorials websiteyou can choose to view allthe war memorails for WWIin Ireland. These are listedin alphabetical order bycountcounty. You should be ableto find your local war memorial here.

Each memorial listedhas a general photo,detailed photos anda PDF transcriptionwith all the names and regiments of thesoldiers included. Fsoldiers included. Fromthis memorial we havechosen the name C. A.Martin. Make sure to note the soldier’s regiment and rank.

It’s important that you record eveything you can about your soldiers, including full name, rank,service number, military unit, date of death andplace of commemoration. You are next going tosearch the Commonwealth Graves Commission who hold the records for 1,700,000 service menand women. and women. You need to make sure you have as many details as you can gather, to cross checkthat you are looking at the records for the right soldier.

STEP 1. LOCAL CHURCH OR MONUMENT & IRISH WAR MEMORIALS http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/

Alternative STEP 1. IRELAND’S MEMORIAL RECORDS http://imr.inflandersfields.be/search.html

If you don’t have a local war memorial you can search by an area. For example, if you search for‘Mallow’ you get 65 results. Each team shouldtake note of the details of a number of differentsoldiers.

A step-by-step guide to researching the lives of Irish Soldiers who fought and died in WWI