Captain Louis Corbally

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Date published: 28/01/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 06/05/1915
Age at death: 38
Cemetery: Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, Nord, France
Plot: I. 12.
Information: Captain Louis Corbally, R.F.A., third son of the late Mr. Mathew James Corbally, of Rathbeal Hall, Swords, Co. Dublin, died of wounds at Bailleul on May 6th, 1915. He was born in 1876, educated at Stonyhurst College and Trinity College, Dublin. He served through the Boer War in the Irish Yeomanry, and was taken prisoner at Lindley. He married, in 1906, Nancy, daughter of Mr. John F. Whyte, D.L., of Loughbrickland, Co. Down. He re-joined the Army when the war broke out and received a commission as Captain in the Royal Field Artillery. He was a keen sportsman, a good rider to hounds, a good shot, and a well known writer on these subjects.