Killed when 2 German shells landed on his section pay parade.
http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/574620/NILAND,%20J
179th Tunnelling Company dug the mine that created the Lochnagar Crater,1st July 1916, at the Somme.
Married to Jane Quinn in 1904
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/bb64010063130
4 children Ellen (Nellie), Mary (Molly), Edward (Ned) and Joseph (Joe).
1911 census :
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Mountjoy/Summerhill/29509/
Killed when 2 German shells landed on his section pay parade.
http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/574620/NILAND,%20J
179th Tunnelling Company dug the mine that created the Lochnagar Crater,1st July 1916, at the Somme.
Married to Jane Quinn in 1904
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/bb64010063130
4 children Ellen (Nellie), Mary (Molly), Edward (Ned) and Joseph (Joe).
1911 census :
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Mountjoy/Summerhill/29509/
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