Ronald WATERMAN

This photograph on display at the Somme Heritage Centre, Newtownards, County Down

Ronald Waterman. Lance Corporal 210, 12th Royal Irish Rifles. Born 1897 to Samuel and Elsie Waterman of 8 Glencollyer Street, Duncairn, North Belfast. Enlisted 1915, joined the 12th Royal Irish Rifles, 36th Ulster Division. Promoted to Lance Corporal at Clandeboyde Camp, and later to Corporal. Killed in action on the 1st day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916 aged 19 years. His mother was granted a war gratuity 3 August 1917, revised 31 October 1919.

Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France