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- John Love. Sergeant 18106, 2nd Royal Irish Rifles.
Born 11 April 1885 Robert James and Rachel Love, nee Quaile of Scotch Street Downpatrick
Irish Census 1901-1911 with his parents and siblings at 18 Scotch Street Downpatrick. 1911 occupation, stone mason.
Killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, (1July 1916) aged 30. His father was granted a war gratuity 13 November 1919.
Commemorated on his parent’s memorial in Down Cathedral New Cemetery, also on the Thiepval Memorial Somme, France and a memorial in Down Cathedral
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