Second Lieutenant Cyril Dermott Fonace Somers

Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Date published: 27/07/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 20/05/1917
Cemetery: DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN
Plot: III. N. 17.
Information: Second Lieutenant Cyril Dermott Fonace Somers, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who died of wounds received in action on May 20th, aged 20 years, was the elder son of the Rev. S.H. Somers, Rector of Inniscaltra Parish, Co. Clare, and grandson of Mr. Ambrose McEnnery, Dalguise, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. He was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, and entered Sandhurst from school in May, 1915. In the following October he was gazetted to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He joined his battalion in France in October, 1916, and took part in the fighting on the Somme. He was invalided home suffering from blood poisoning, but again went to France in April of this year, and died of wounds received in action just a month afterwards.