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2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (British Army) |
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05/12/1898
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| Died: |
02/06/1916 (Died of Wounds) |
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17 |
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William Laverty was the son of Patrick Laverty. William Laverty enlisted in Holywood, County Down. Rifleman William Laverty was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles when he died of wounds on Friday 2nd June 1916. Rifleman Laverty is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France. The CWGC record Rifleman W Laverty as the son of Patrick Laverty of Mill Quarter, Toomebridge, County Antrim.
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Étaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne. During the First World War, the area around Étaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained.
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