Name

Alexander McBay.

Description

Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Private Alexander McBay.

Life Story

Name: Alexander McBay.

Service Number: 9982.

Rank: Private.

Battalion: 1st Battalion.

Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Born: County Down.

Died: 29th June 1915.

Address: 101 Argyle Street, Belfast

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Alexander McBay, son of Alexander and Sarah Jane McBay, Stepson of Mary McBay, Nee McArthur, lived at 101 Argyle Street, Shankill Road, Belfast

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The 1901 Ireland Census has Alexander living at 38 Seventh Street, Shankill, Belfast with his mother, and father, occupation, Labourer

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The 1911 Ireland Census has Alexander's family living at 101 Argyle Street, Shankill, Belfast, his mother, father, occupation, Bricklayers Labourer, two sisters, Sarah Jane, 8 years, Elizabeth, 6 years, brother Alfred Harold, 3 years, and his grandparents, Robert McBay, 73 years, and Mary McBay, 68 years

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Alexander's mother died on the 23rd August 1911.

His father remarried on the 3rd April 1915.

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Alexander joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

He was posted as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on the 17th March 1915.

Alexander was a Private in 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was Killed on the 29th June 1915 aged 23 years.

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A local newspaper states.

Pte A. McBay 1st Batt Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, formerly 101 Argyle Street, Belfast, killed at the Dardanelles

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Alexander's Soldiers Effects were left to his father.

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See father also: 15201 Rifleman Alexander McBay 9th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles

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Alexander received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1915 Star.

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He is Remembered at Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.

To Remember Is To Honour

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