Second Lieutenant Robert Victor Drought

Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles
Date published: 31/08/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 09/06/1917
Age at death: 30
Cemetery: Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, Nord, France
Plot: III. C. 107.
Information: Second Lieutenant Robert Victor Drought, Royal Irish Rifles, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Drought, Glenart Avenue, Blackrock, has been killed in action. He had been awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He took part in a raid on the enemy trenches, and although stunned and slightly wounded he succeeded in bringing back a wounded prisoner and all his own casualties.