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Joseph Niland

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Joseph Niland

Birth
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Death
28 Mar 1917 (aged 44)
France
Burial
Arras, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Add to Map
Plot
II. L. 21.
Memorial ID
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Sapper, 179th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers. Husband of Jane Niland, of 32 Summer Hill, Dublin. A cooper employed at Guinness, St James's Gate, Dublin.

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/
Sapper, 179th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers. Husband of Jane Niland, of 32 Summer Hill, Dublin. A cooper employed at Guinness, St James's Gate, Dublin.

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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  • Created by: Johnny Doyle
  • Added: Nov 24, 2005
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12481935/joseph-niland: accessed ), memorial page for Joseph Niland (23 Sep 1872–28 Mar 1917), Find a Grave Memorial ID 12481935, citing Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; Maintained by Johnny Doyle (contributor 47251356).