Lieutenant Thomas Michael Kettle

Regiment: Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Panel reference: Pier and Face 1
Date published: 29/09/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 09/09/1916
Age at death: 36
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Information: Lieutenant Thomas Michael Kettle, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who was killed in France on Sept. 9th, 1916, was a man of brilliant scholarly attainments. He was a member of the Irish Bar, and entered Parliament as Nationalist member for East Tyrone in 1906. In 1910 he retired from Parliament on being appointed Professor of Irish Economics in the National University. He was a son of the late Mr. Andrew Kettle, who was a prominent figure in connection with the land movement in Ireland, and who died a few days after the news of his son's death reached him. Lieutenant Kettle married in 1909 Miss Mary Sheehy, a daughter of Mr. David Sheehy, M.P.