Arthur Cassidy is believed to be the son of Patrick and Mary Cassidy (nee Henry). Arthur was born on 26th February 1877 in the parish of Bellaghy, County Derry. The family lived in Money Staghan Ellis, County Londonderry. They were a farming family. Arthur worked on the farm. Moneystaghan Ellis lies on the Magherafelt side of Portglenone. Arthur emigrated to New Zealand. Private Arthur Cassidy was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Otago Regiment, New Zealand .Expeditionary Force when he was killed in action in Belgium at Passchendaele on 1st October 1917.
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Arthur Cassidy is believed to be the son of Patrick and Mary Cassidy (nee Henry).
Arthur was born on 26th February 1877 in the parish of Bellaghy, County Derry.
The 1901 census lists Arthur as age 25 living with the family at house 11 in Money Staghan Ellis, Claudy, County Londonderry. They were a farming family. Arthur worked on the farm.
Moneystaghan Ellis lies on the Magherafelt side of Portglenone.
The 1911 census lists Arthur as age 35 living with the family at house 25 in Moneystaghan Ellis, Clady, County Londonderry. His father had died. Arthur was 38 and was worked on the farm.
Arthur Cassidy emigrated to New Zealand.
Before enlisting, Arthur was working as a labourer for the McKergie Brothers in Kauana. He was living in Heddon / Centre Bush, near Dunedin. Heddon Bush lies due west of Dunedin on the southern tip of the southern island of New Zealand.
Arthur Cassidy enlisted in Dunedin on 25th August 1915. He gave his age as 34 but it believed he was a little older. He gave his next-of-kin as his cousin, Mrs Jane McTavish of Heddon Bush, Otago, New Zealand.
After training, on 13 November 1915, Private Cassidy embarked from Wellington with the 8th Reinforcements for Suez, Egypt.
Private Arthur Cassidy was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Otago Regiment, New Zealand .Expeditionary Force when he was killed in action in Belgium at Passchendaele on 1st October 1917.
Private Cassidy has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. The Memorial to the Missing at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West Vlaanderen, Belgium bears the names of almost 1,200 New Zealanders who fell in the battles for Passchendaele and whose bodies were never recovered.
The CWGC record Private Cassidy as the son of Mrs J. Cassidy, of MoneyStaghan, Portglenone, Co. Derry, Ireland.
