Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SILENT IN WAR TO END ALL WARS
William Machutchison Francis Ledwidge Basil Macclear Michael Moran
Ireland during the early 1900s. He went on to join the Irish rugby team, gaining 11 caps between 1905 and 1907.
Maclear was killed in action during the Second Battle of Ypres on May 24, 1915. His remains were never recovered.
He was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2015.
Renowned poet born in Slane, Co Meath, in August 1887.
Dubbed the Poet of the Blackbird, he was best known for his work on rural landscapes and nature.
He joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in was October 1914. Ledwidge was killed on July 31, 1917, after his battalion was sent to Belgium to prepare for the Battle of Ypres.
His battalion chaplain noted “Ledwidge killed, blown to bits”.
Hockey player was best known for his time with Banbridge Hockey Club. He also played for the Irish international team and the Scottish side while he was at Edinburgh University.
He was a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps and was killed near the end of the war on March 21, 1918.
He received the Military Cross for his efforts during the war. Golfer originally from Clontarf, Co Dublin.
He went on to become one of the top players of his time, competing in the British and Irish Opens.
He was a member of the 7 Royal
Irish Regiment. While fighting in France, Moran was wounded in action in April 1918.
He was moved to Le Cateau war was hospital where he later passed away. For almost 100 years the final resting place of Dubliner
was
unknown.
Machutchison joined the British Army at the outbreak of the war and would go on to become a Lieutenant with the 7 Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He disappeared in battle in March 1918 and for a long time was listed as one of the 500,000 soldiers without a grave.