Acting Corporal

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Berney, Patrick

Date of Birth
Service No.
12418
8th Battalion
Date of Death
Circumstances of Death
Gallipoli, Killed in Action during days of evacuation from Cape Helles in December/January 1915-16
Other Biographical Details

The son of James and Eliza Berney née Meyler.

Breen, James

Date of Birth
Address
Ballygarett, Co. Wexford
Service No.
10181
2nd Battalion
Date of Death
Circumstances of Death
Died of wounds
Other Biographical Details

Son of John and Bridget Breen née Byrne, both born in Co. Wexford. His father worked as a coachman. On the death of his mother from chronic pneumonia at Ballyminane, Co. Wexford in January 1901, he, his father and brother John moved to his grandfathers's farm in Mangan Lower, Ballygarrett, Co. Wexford.  His father died from tuberculosis on 18th May, 1901. In 1911 James was working as a grocer's apprentice in Ballygarrett. He enlisted before the begining of the war in August 1913.

Cosgrave, Daniel Joseph

Date of Birth
Address
Glen View, Swords, Co. Dublin
Service No.
12993
2nd Battalion
Date of Death
Circumstances of Death
Killed in Action France and Flanders
Other Biographical Details

Son of John and Anastasia Cosgrave nee Hayes, Oylegate, Co. Wexford. Husband of Mary Ellen Cosgrave nee Gough of 7 Newgrove Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin. She later resided at 23 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.