Lieutenant Robert A. Finlay

Regiment: 5th Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Attached: 1st Batt. Royal Irish Rifles
Panel reference: Panel 10.
Date published: 30/07/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 09/05/1915
Age at death: 22
Cemetery: Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Information: Lieutenant Robert A. Finlay, 5th Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was the younger son of Colonel H.F. Finlay, D.L., of Corkagh, Clondalkin, High Sheriff of the Co. Dublin. Lieutenant Finlay was gazetted to the 3rd Royal Dublin Fusiliers in July, 1913, and in March, 1915, was attached to the 1st Royal Irish Rifles in Flanders, where he was killed on May 9th, during an attack on the German trenches.