Name

James Templeton.

Description

Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Rifleman James Templeton.

Life Story

Name: James Templeton.

Service Number: 8417.

Rank: Rifleman.

Battalion: 2nd Battalion.

Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles.

Born: 18th November 1888, Belfast.

Died: 25th October 1914.

Address: 19 Killarney Street, Belfast

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James Templeton, son of Robert and Martha Templeton, lived with his wife Catherine at 19 Killarney Street, Shankill Road, Belfast

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James Templeton married Mary Catherine Templeton, Nee Murphy, within Saint Annes Church Belfast on the 16th of July 1912. Their daughter Kathleen was born on the 13th of May 1913

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James signed the Ulster Covenant on the 28th of September 1912, Ulster Day, within the Old Town Hall

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James joined the Royal Irish Rifles.

He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 15th of August 1914.

James was a Rifleman in 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles when he was Killed In Action on the 25th of October 1914 aged 25 years,

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A local newspaper states.

Rifleman James Templeton, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, (killed), resided with his wife at 19 Killarney Street, Belfast, his father living at 86, Malvern Street

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James Soldiers Effects were left to his widow Catherine.

A Dependant Pension Application Form shows his widow and daughter as claimants.

James brother George, who lived at 46 Eglinton Street, Belfast, applied for his Medals

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James received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star

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He is Remembered at Le Touret Memorial, France.

To Remember Is To Honour

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