Captain William Henry Madden

Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles
Date published: 26/04/1918
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 24/03/1919
Age at death: 33
Cemetery: Noyon New British Cemetery, Oise, France
Plot: II. E. 10.
Information: Captain William Henry Madden, Royal Irish Rifles, killed in action on March 24th, 1918, aged thirty-three, was the youngest son of the late Very Rev. S.O. Madden, D.D., Dean of Cork, and of Mrs. Madden. 36 Goldington Road, Bedford. He was educated at Llandaff Cathedral School, Repton, and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a keen football and hockey player. Before the war, he was an assistant master at Stafford Grammar School, and later at Campbell College, Belfast, where he was a member of the O.T.C., and immediately on the outbreak of war volunteered for active service. He was gazetted to the Irish Rifles in December 1914, and went to France with the Ulster Division in 1915. He took part in the battle of the Somme, the battles of Messines, Ypres and Cambrai, being promoted Captain in July, 1917.