Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch
Coagh - Those That Served
Updates for Private John Doherty
Date Information
02/03/2019 All these belong to Stewartstown or vicinity. As will be seen by an advertisement in another column, a Clay Pigeon Tournament ar Carnan, Stewartstown, on 31st August, the proceeds of which are also for comforts for the troops.
02/03/2019 Private J Doherty, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
02/03/2019 Private Robert Martin, Young Citizen’s Volunteers
02/03/2019 Driver Harry Hamilton, Royal Field Artillery
02/03/2019 Farrier Rooney, Royal Field Artillery
02/03/2019 Private William Newell, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
02/03/2019 Privates Jim and Nathaniel Patterson
02/03/2019 Sergeant J Shields, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
02/03/2019 Mr Thomas Ferguson, Albany, secretary of the Stewartstown Shooting Club, has received letters of acknowledgement and appreciation from the following local soldiers who received parcels of tobacco and cigarettes from the Club:-
02/03/2019
02/03/2019 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 26th August 1916: Stewartstown
02/03/2019 This article in the newspaper is the only possible mention of Private J Doherty.
02/03/2019 Very little other information is available.
02/03/2019
02/03/2019 The History of Coagh booklet lists Private John Doherty as having served with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the war.
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Coagh & District in WW1
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