Image: Martin J. Sheehan, RAF 1918

Description: Image of Martin Joseph Sheehan (right), born in Tralee, Ireland 12 April 1896, was a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Air Force (RAF), the second of three sons of Captain D. D. Sheehan MP for Mid-Cork, Ireland, who served with him on the Western Front in World War I. When on an observation mission with the No. 13 Squadron RAF over Cambrai, France, in an Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 D4898 reconnaissance biplane, he was killed 1 October 1918, together with his pilot: William George McCaig (left), Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force, born 1896 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. They are buried nearby in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Anneux British War Cemetery, Anneux, on the N30 route to Bepaume. Their graves: Plot 1, Row H nos. 21 and 19. Sheehan is commemorated on a panel of the Parliamentary War Memorial in Westminster Hall, one of MP's sons that died during World War I to be named on that memorial.[1][2] Martin Sheehan's brother Daniel J. Sheehan, Royal Flying Corps was killed in May 1917, his uncle Sgt. Robert O'Connor killed at Passchendaele in July 1917. His biography as first printed and published by His Majesty's Stationary Office London, 1921 publication: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-19.
Title: Martin J. Sheehan, RAF 1918
Credit: family possession (permitted) Details from 'The Aerodrome' R.E.8 biplane from 'The Aerodrome'
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