A fuller picture of those who lost their lives
Illustrations by Harry Clarke in his imitable style decorate the margins of each page. Scenes of war including trench warfare and ruined buildings and villages, as well as silhouettes of soldiers throwing grenades, firing pistols and machine guns, or simply at ease, add variety to the sad litany of the dead.
There is a project, run by the museum and supported by the Irish Embassy in Brussels, to fill in the gaps. It fits into a larger project run by the museum entitled the Names List . This is a list of all the people who lost their lives in Belgium because of the first World War, irrespective of their nationality.
Using a variety of sources and databases including parish records, civil records, British army records, records of wills, the census, newspapers and other sources, it is hoped that a fuller picture of the men who lost their lives will emerge. Charles was a member of the Church of Ireland and lived in Ballymurphy in West Belfast. When the census was taken in 1911, he and his wife were both 26 years old and his son Andrew was nine months old. He worked as a carter at the time. His wife and family lived at Upton Cottages on Glen Road in Belfast when they were informed of his death in Ieper in April 1915, exactly eight months after he entered the theatre of war on to August 22nd, 1914.
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