Second Lieutenant Myles Dunwoody

Regiment: Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Date published: 27/07/1917
Killed in action: No
Information: Second Lieutenant Myles Dunwoody, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was the son of Mr. W. J. Dunwoody, M.D. (T.C.D.), of Ramsgate, Kent, and a grandson of Forster Dunwoody, J.P., Monaghan. He was educated at Oundle School, and shortly after the outbreak of hostilities enlisted in one of the battalions of the Ulster Division. In May, 1915, he was gazetted a second lieutenant in the 4th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and in September was sent out to Macedonia. He took part in the operations in Serbia at the end of 1915, and served in various places in Greece. He was present for the heavy fighting which took place on the Sturma plain in Sept-Oct., 1916. After an unbroken stay of about seventeen months with the Salonika army, he came home for a well-earned leave of fourteen days, and was returning from same when the ship he was travelling on was sunk by an enemy submarine and he was drowned.