Lieutenant George David Louis Clancy

Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles
Date published: 29/06/1917
Killed in action: No
Information: Lieutenant George David Louis Clancy, Royal Irish Rifles, who was lost on the torpedoed transport H.M.S. Transylvania on the 4th May, 1917, was the only son of Mr. George D. Clancy, of Monkstown, Co. Dublin, and of 20 St. Andrew Street, Dublin, solicitor, and was twenty years of age. The young soldier was gazetted to the Special Reserve of Officers in October, 1914, during his undergraduate course in Trinity College, Dublin, when he was eighteen years old. He had seen five months' service in France with the 1st Leinster Regiment, and went with them to join the Salonika Forces in December, 1915. While there he was promoted and transferred to the Regular Army. It was on his return to Salonika, after his only leave home since going abroad, that the ship in which he was travelling was destroyed by enemy action.