Second Lieutenant Claud Henry Whish Darling

Regiment: 3rd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
Attached: 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
Date published: 28/01/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 12/12/1915
Age at death: 20
Cemetery: Tancrez Farm Cemetery, Hainaut, Belgium
Plot: I. G. 10.
Information: Second Lieutenant Claud Henry Whish Darling, 3rd Battalion (attached 2nd) Royal Irish Rifles, who was killed in action in France on December 12th, 1915, was the second son of the late Rev. Oliver W. Darling, Killesk Rectory, Duncannon, Co. Wexford, and a grandson of Dr. George Newman Dunn, of Duncarrig, Kinsale, Co. Cork. He was educated at Braidlea, Stoke Bishop, Bristol, at Monkton Coombe School, Bath, where he was a member of the O.T.C., and on H.M.S. Worcester training ship for the merchant service. On the outbreak of the war he applied for a commission and was gazetted to the 3rd Batt. of the Royal Irish Rifles in February, 1915, and left for France at the end of September.