Lance Corporal Tim Hickey 1891 - 1965

The Regimental diary - Original - Pages 1 to 28
                                                          Pages 29 to 58
                                                          Pages 59 to 84
The Regimental Diary - Transcription by SouthIrishHorse.com

1) Joined up - where, when and why?
2) Trained where?
3) Went to France when, and what company was he in?
4) Assume he was with them when they dismounted and re-trained as Infantry
5) Trained Sept Oct 1917
6) Up to Front Nov 1917 - Belfast camp photos
7) In, out - show orders, trench maps and modern photos and Google maps of locations
8) Injury - diary extract, Cpl Stoker photos
9) Assume he was sent to hospital behind lines, and then home
10) Meanwhile, German counter attack and outcome
11) Medal Record
12) Pension record

13) What's it like today:  WW1 fields, villages, graves and craters etc
14) WW2 guns and graves and tanks

16th (Irish) Division - 420 officers and 12,000 - 18,000 men at full strength (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_(Irish)_Division)

49th Brigade - 140 Officers and 4,000 men at full strength

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)
)Royal Irish Regiment - Seems to be a notional or honorary grouping, no separate existence
7th Battalion (South Irish Horse) - 35 Officers and 1000 men at full strength
A, B, C, S Companies - Each of 5 officers and 240 men at full strength


18th Feb 1918

L/Cpl Hickey is injured, and one of his colleagues is killed.