Ref ID: 4531
Name
Oliver Moles.
Description
Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Corporal Oliver Moles.
Life Story
Name: Oliver Moles.
Service Number: 8593.
Rank: Corporal.
Battalion: 2nd Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Born: 14th May 1888, Belfast.
Died: 4th September 1914.
Address: 256 Snugville Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
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Oliver Moles, son of Isaac and Mary Moles, lived at 256 Snugville Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
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The 1901 Ireland Census has Oliver living at 59 Ewarts Row, Belfast with his mother Mary, Occupation, Pirn Winder, two brothers, Samuel, 29 years, Yarn Bundler, William,18 years, Apprentice Tinsmith, two sisters, Isabella, 20 years, Atherton Warper, and Mary, 15 years, Pirn Winder
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The 1911 England and Wales Enumeration Book for Military Establishments, titled Tientsin, North China, has Oliver's names registered within it
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The 1911 Ireland Census has Oliver's mother and Brother William, 28 years, Sheet Metal Worker, living at 77 Snugville Street, Shankill Belfast
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Oliver joined the Royal Irish Rifles.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 23rd August 1914.
Oliver Moles was a Corporal in the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles when he Died Of Wounds while a Prisoner of War on the 4th of September 1914 aged 26 years
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A local newspaper states.
Mrs Moles, 26 Snugville Street, Belfast, is anxious for information as to the whereabouts of her son, Corporal Oliver Moles, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was reported wounded and missing on September 11th. Nothing has been heard of him since. He was a reservist, and prior to mobilisation was in the employment of Messrs Ewart, Crumlin Road. He was a member of t5he North Belfast Regiment U.V.F
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Another newspaper states.
A letter has just been received from the German Association of the Red Cross, stating that Corporal Oliver Moles, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on the 9th September 1914, in a field ambulance at Cattanieres, from wounds received at the Battle of Mons. His mother resides at 256 Snugville Street, Belfast.
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International Committee of the Red Cross 1914-1918 Prisoner Of War Archive documents relating to Corporal Oliver Moles
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Oliver's Soldiers Effects were left to his mother Mary.
His A Pension Application Form shows his mother as claimant.
Dependant Pension Application Forms show his mother Mary as claimant also
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Oliver received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star
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He is Remembered at La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France
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To Remember Is To Honour
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Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1914
Classification
Newspaper, , Photograph - Belfast Telegraph
