Image: Robert O'Connor Sgt., Leinster Regiment 1914
Description: Sketched portrait of the Irish soldier Robert Martin O'Connor (1880-1917) around 1914, Sergeant with the "A" Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Leinster Regiment (Service No. 9337) during World War I. He met his death on 31st July 1917 during the Third Battle of Passchendaele when the 2nd Leinsters were in the sector just north of Mount Sorrel (south of Sanctuary Wood museum) near Ypres Belgium, He has no known grave, but is commemorated on panel 44 of the Menin Gate Wall in Ypres, Belgium . (Details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commision website). He was a brother-in-law of Capt. D. D. Sheehan MP of the Royal Munster Fusiliers.
Title: Robert O'Connor Sgt., Leinster Regiment 1914
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