CAPT. John Joseph McCORMACK
John McCormacks shop at the Market Cross and home to John Joseph
Captain. John Joseph McCormack
Tyneside Irish Cap badge
Birth Registration - 21/06/1889
4th Battalion, Tyneside Irish, 27th Northumberland Fusiliers
Captain. J.J. McCormack
McCormack promoted to Temporary Lieutenant 07/07/1915
Wicklow Newsletter - 22/07/1916
Tipperary Star, July, 1916.
Strange Meeting on Battlefield. Captain John McCormack, of the Tyneside Irish, in a letter to his father, Mr J McCormack, Castle Street, Nenagh, says he was coming back from the front line of trenches when he saw an officer of the Medical Corps—a very big man—working energetically among the wounded, and “making the German prisoners work like blazes.” “ I stopped to look at him,” the Captain goes on, “and coming closer I discovered it was Dr Ned Purcell, Bachelor’s Hill, Ballycahill, brother of Mrs James O’Meara, of the hotel, Nenagh. I went up and slapped him on the shoulder, to his great surprise, and in the midst of shot and shell and all the horrors of war, we discussed Ireland, Nenagh, and all we knew, to the astonishment of the Germans.”
Mentioned in Despatches - 09/04/1917
Tipperary Star, May, 1917 - Nenagh Man mentioned in despatches.
In recent despatches from General Sir Douglas Haig, the name of Captain J McCormack, Northumberland Fusiliers, is mentioned. Captain McCormack, who was son of Mr John McCormack, Castle Street, Nenagh, was killed in action on the 28th ult. He joined the Royal Irish Regiment as a private shortly after the outbreak of the war
Battle of Arras - 1917 - the grey is captured from the Germans
The Usine Chimique Lesage (Chemical Factory) which saw a lot of heavy fighting in the small village of Roeux
From the Battalion Diary 28/04/1917
The Battalion were part of a relief force and took part in the attack on the Chemical Factory at Roeux on the 28th April 1917. Casualties inflicted were 2 Officers killed, 2 wounded, 3 missing, and 157 other ranks wounded and missing. There are no names recorded but this is the day John is reported as killed. He will have been one of the officers.
Artist William Orpens capturing of the exhaustion of some of the participants in the battle at Roeux
British Officer's Grave near Roeux, October 27 1917 - Geoffrey Rose
Medal Index Cards
John Joseph first landed in France in February of 1916.
Ordering the Headstone by his mother Sarah McCormack (nee Spain)
A very rare Memorial window and plaque to be found in the Ladies side aisle dedicated to a member of the congregation. Captain McCormack was born in Castle St to merchant John McCormack and his wife Sarah Spain. He served with the 27th Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Irish). He was mentioned in despatches in 1917, but sadly died a month later. He is buried at Browns Copse in Pas De Calais, in France.
Browns Copse Cemetery
Captain. J.J. McCormack
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