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Updates for Lance Corporal Robert Moran
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19/05/2020 01413
15/02/2019 ‘Robert, my son, I was grieved to the heart,
15/02/2019 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 9th November 1918:
15/02/2019 MORAN – Killed in action in France on 14th October 1918, Lance Corporal Robert Moran, dearly beloved and only son of Thomas and Bridget Moran, Ballynagowan, Desertmartin, aged 20 years.
15/02/2019 The night it became our sad fortune to part;
15/02/2019 With a shake of the hand, and a kiss on the brow,
15/02/2019 Beloved of my blossom, Oh where are you now?
15/02/2019 Although he was loved and respected by all,
15/02/2019 And now he lies low in the red fields of France,
15/02/2019 The bugle may sound, but he will not advance.
15/02/2019 Gallant and brave, with all his might,
15/02/2019 He fought for honour, truth and right;
15/02/2019 No stone or tablet marks his grave,
15/02/2019 He has returned to God who gave.’
15/02/2019 It was his misfortune in battle to fall;
15/02/2019
17/02/2016
17/02/2016 Robert Moran was born about 1899 in Desertmartin.
17/02/2016 The 1901 census lists Robert as age 3 living with the family at house 8 in Dromore, Desertmartin, County Londonderry. Thomas was an agricultural labourer.
17/02/2016 The 1911 census lists Robert as age 12 living with the family at house 6 in Desertmartin Town. He was still at school.
17/02/2016 Robert Moran enlisted in Magherafelt. He was living in Desertmartin at the time.
17/02/2016 Lance Corporal Robert Moran was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action in Belgium on Monday 14th October 1918.
17/02/2016 Lance Corporal Moran is buried in Dadizeele New British Cemetery. The cemetery is located 16 km east of Ypres town centre in Belgium.
17/02/2016
17/02/2016 Robert Moran was the only son and eldest child of Thomas and Bridget Moran. Thomas Moran married Bridget McGlade on 17th June 1899 in the district of Magherafelt.
17/02/2016 The CWGC record Lance Corporal R Moran as the son of Thomas and Bridget Moran of Desertmartin, Co. Derry.
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