Captain Alfred Ernest Warmington

Regiment: Royal Irish Regiment
Date published: 09/06/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 24/04/1916
Cemetery: Grangegorman Military Cemetery, County Dublin, Ireland, Republic Of
Plot: CE. Officers. 45.
Information: Captain Alfred Ernest Warmington was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Warmington, of Naas, Co. Kildare. He served four years in the Cape Mounted Rifles. At the outbreak of the Boer War he volunteered for service in Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry, was awarded the Queen's and King's Medals, with seven clasps. At the outbreak of the present war he was appointed Captain in the Royal Irish Regiment, and saw service in France. He returned to this country for special duty in the middle of April, was engaged in the suppression of the rebellion, and was killed in action at the South Dublin Union on the 24th (Easter Monday).