Major George Macnamara

Regiment: Wiltshire Regiment
Date published: 29/06/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 25/05/1917
Age at death: 27
Cemetery: Noeux Les Mines Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Plot: I. L. 22.
Information: Major George Macnamara, Wiltshire Regiment, who was killed on May 25th, 1917, was the third and youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. H.V. Macnamara, of Ennistymon House, Co. Clare. He was born in 1890, and was educated at Clifton College, and with Mr. W.N. Cobbold, West Wratting Park, when he entered Sandhurst. He was gazetted in October, 1910, and went to the Front in October, 1914, and about a fortnight later was severely wounded and invalided home. He was engaged on home service from February, 1915, till June, 1916, when he joined his own Battalion at the Front, and commanded it for about two months. He was subsequently posted to a unit of the North Staffordshire Regiment as Acting Major and second in command, and was with it when he was killed. The General of his division writes: “[He] met his death at the conclusion of a most successful enterprise carried out by the battalion, and for the success of which he was largely instrumental.” Just before he was killed his name appeared in the list of those mentioned in despatches.