15/01/2017 |
From the Belfast Newsletter dated 20th January 1917: |
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Robert McCracken was a member of Upperlands U.V.F. and L.O.L. |
15/01/2017 |
Private R McCracken, Boveedy, Kilrea, killed in action. He was formerly employed by Messrs William Clark & Sons, Upperlands. |
15/01/2017 |
From the Belfast Newsletter dated 20th January 1917: |
15/01/2017 |
Robert McCracken was employed by Messrs William Clark & Sons, Upperlands. |
15/01/2017 |
Private R McCracken, Boveedy, Kilrea, killed in action. He was formerly employed by Messrs William Clark & Sons, Upperlands. |
19/03/2016 |
Private Robert McCracken is commemorated on a plaque in Upperlands Protestant Hall. |
19/03/2016 |
Robert had just arrived back on the front line on New Year’s Eve following a spell in hospital. He was hit by a shell splinter and was killed instantly. |
18/01/2016 |
The CWGC record Private Robert McCracken as the son of Mrs McCracken of Boveedy, Kilrea, County Derry. |
18/01/2016 |
Private Robert McCracken is buried in Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery. Hyde Park Corner Cemetery is located twelve kilometres south of Ypres town centre in Belgium. |
18/01/2016 |
Private Robert McCracken was serving with the 10th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action in Belgium on 1st July 1917. He was 25 years old. |
18/01/2016 |
Robert enlisted in Donegal. |
18/01/2016 |
Robert McCracken was born in Maghera on 22nd June 1891. |