Great War, Roll of Honour.
Carlow Sentinel. May 17th 1919.
Lieut. James Kane-Smith, M.C.
We regret to find amongst the official
causality list this week the death of this gallant young Carlow
soldier, who was eldest son of Mr and Mrs Kane-Smith, Little Moyle.
He was attached to the R.F.A., and some months back was reported
wounded and missing, but hopes of recovery were entertained up to
the last. He was awarded the M.C. for distinguished services, while
his kind and genial disposition made him a fast favourite amongst
his many friends, who mourn his loss, and sympathise deeply with his
bereaved parents.
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The following is from London Gazette 9th of
January 1918 added by Terry Curran
T./2nd Lt. James Kane-Smith, R.F.A.
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to
duty. When his battery was being heavily shelled he showed a total
disregard for his personal safety in moving from gun-pit to gun-pit
encouraging the men. He was in charge of the guns at the time, and
although himself wounded, by his fearlessness and determination he
rallied the men and maintained the accuracy of the fire of the
battery.
He also arranged for the wounded to be
cleared before allowing his own wound to be dressed.
This latest one has added another mystery to
the Carlow War Memorial as this James Kane Smith is not listed?
Another name to add to the Missing names page.
From: Terry Curran
<terrycur16@yahoo.es>
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Carlow Sentinel, June 14th 1919.
Lieut-Colonel C.C. MacDowell, D.S.O. (Major
Reserve of Officers Royal Artillery).
Son of the late C.W. MacDowell, M.D. of Otter
Holt, Kilkenny Road, Carlow has been appointed in the recent Kings
Birthday Honours, a companion of the Order of St. Michael and St.
George, for his services in the final advance on Mons where he
commanded four Brigades of Artillery.
Col. MacDowell after serving in the early days
of the war, as second-in-command of the 6th Battalion Royal
Highlanders (The Black Watch) through the battles of Festubut and
Neuve Chappelle, 1915, was selected to command the 281st Brigade,
R.F.A., in November 1915, and has continued in command of this
brigade on the Western front since that date.
The D.S.O. was awarded to him for his services
in the battle of the Somme.
He commanded a group of artillery in all the
great battles of the years 1916, 1917, 1918, including Arras Cambrai,
Vimy Ridge, Ypres, Langemark, Bapaume, St. Quentin and Mons.
Colonel MacDowell's eldest son, Captain C.M.V.
MacDowell, 6th Royal Highlanders, died of wounds received at
Gavrelle, during the first battle of Arras, 1917, after serving with
the famous 51st (Highland) Division in France since early in 1915,
he was only 19 and a half years, when he was killed.
M. Brennan found an entry in
the Supplement to The Edinburgh Gazette, June 5, 1919. p.1825
T. /Lt.-Col. Charles Carlyle
MacDowell, D.S.O., R.A. (Maj., R. of 0.).
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Carlow Sentinel, February 6th 1919.
Glad and proud at 19 years.
Midshipman J.D.A. Lane, R.N.R.
Midshipman J.D.A. Lane, Royal Navy Reserve,
aged 19, whose grandfather is well known and highly esteemed in
Carlow, was drowned whilst on offensive patrol with the C.M.B.'s.,
on October 15th 1918, was the only son of Captain H. Angell Lane,
R.A.M.C., H.M.A.T., of Chelsea and Formoss (?). He was a Cadet on
O.T.S.'s "Port Jackson" and "Midway", joined the Navy in 1916, and
spent the winter of 1917-18 on a destroyer in the North Sea.
He had the sailor's intuition that he would not
live to hear Peace proclaimed, and left this message:-
If all of us at sea were to die, it would be a
small price to pay for the freedom of our country from invasion, so
I hope you will not be unhappy but as glad and proud as I am.
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Egypt. Roll of Honour.
Carlow Sentinel, May10th 1919.
Lieutenant M.A. Foley.
A very deep and wide-spread regret was
caused to his many relatives and friends in Carlow, his native
county, by the announcement of the death of Lieutenant M.A. Foley,
while serving with the Leinster Regiment in Egypt, at the age of 22.
He was a son of Mr. Michael Foley, J.P.
Leighlin House, and nephew the Lord Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin,
and Rev. Dr. Foley, President of Carlow College. When the war broke
out he was a student of the University College, Dublin.
He received his commission in 1916, and was
on active service from that time until the time of his death.
At Monday's meeting of Carlow Urban District
Council a resolution of sympathy was passed to Mr. and Mrs. Foley,
and other members of the family, and a fitting tribute paid to the
memory of deceased.
(Lt Foley appears on the
Carlow Memorial Foley, Michael Alphonsus Lt Leinster Regiment
25-4-1919 age 25)
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The above is a true and
accurate transcript of the original document.
- Transcribed by M. Purcell c2010.
- Old newspapers in the PPP.