Ref ID: 4508
Name
Armour Weir.
Description
Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Private Armour Weir.
Life Story
Name: Armour D Weir.
Service Number: 8992.
Rank: Private/Lance Corporal.
Battalion: 2nd Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Born: County Tyrone.
Died: 2nd September 1915.
Address: 229 Conway Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
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Armour Weir, son of George and Isabella Weir, lived at 229 Conway Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
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The 1901 Ireland Census has Armour living at 39 The Square, Moy, County Tyrone, with his father, occupation, Boot Maker, mother, brother, Robert James, 9 years, and sister, Annie, 7 years
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The 1911 Ireland Census has Armour's family living at 24 The Square, Moy, County Tyrone, his mother, father, brother, occupation Groom, and sister, Dress Maker. A William Dorrington, 58 years, Clergyman, also lives there and is registered as a Lodger
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Armour joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force on the 23rd of August 1914.
Armour was a Private in 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he Died of Wounds on the 2nd of September 1915 aged 24 years
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A local newspaper states.
Mrs Weir, 229 Conway Street, Belfast, is anxious to hear of her son, Lance Corporal A D Weir, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He was reported wounded and missing August 26, and since then she has heard nothing of him
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International Committee of the Red Cross 1914-1918 Prisoner Of War Archive documents show Armour Weir's family had made inquiries as to his whereabouts through Mrs Beatrix Whitaver from the Ulster Woman's Unionist Council, Antrim House, Belfast, Ireland.
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A Pension Application Form shows Armours mother Isabella as claimant. This document also shows that having left 229 Conway Street, Shankill Road, Belfast, Armours parents then moved to 38 Tyne Street, Shankill Road, Belfast.
Dependant Pension Application Forms show Armours mother as claimant also
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See brother also: Private Robert James Seaforth Highlanders.
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Armour received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star
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He is Remembered at Port-De-Paris Cemetery, Cambrai, France
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To Remember Is To Honour
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Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1915
Classification
Newspaper, , Photograph - Belfast Telegraph and Larne Times
