Captain Thomas Kevin O'Brien

Regiment: 6th Batt. Connaught Rangers
Date published: 28/07/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 31/05/1916
Age at death: 22
Cemetery: Noeux Les Mines Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Plot: I. L. 7.
Information: Captain Thomas Kevin O'Brien, 6th Batt. Connaught Rangers, who was killed in action on May 31st, 1916, in his 22nd year, was the eldest son of Dr. Thomas O'Brien, Ard-na Greine, Mitchelstown. On the outbreak of the war he was amongst the first to offer his services and obtained his commission in October, 1914, was gazetted Lieutenant on July 9th, 1915, and obtained his Captaincy on April 20, 1916,