Lieutenant William Oliver Fortesque Darling

Attached: 1st Batt. Royal Irish Rifles
Date published: 26/11/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 15/10/1915
Age at death: 23
Cemetery: Y Farm Military Cemetery, Bois Grenier, Nord, France
Plot: K. 30.
Information: Lieutenant William Oliver Fortesque Darling, attached 1st Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, was killed in action in France on October 15th last. He was the eldest son of the late Rev. Oliver W. Darling, Rector of All Saints, Duncannon, Co. Wexford, and was educated at Braidlea, Stoke Bishop, and Haileybury College, Herts, where he was a member of the Officers' Training Corps. At the outbreak of the war he volunteered for service and was gazetted to the 14th Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, being subsequently transferred to the 3rd Batt,