Sergeant Robert Dalton 12th Battalion R.I.R - Died 8th June 1917

NAME; Dalton, Robert Cromwell

RANK; Sergeant

SERV. NO; 17557

UNIT/SERVICE; 12^th Batt

REGIMENT; Royal Irish Rifles

BORN; Carrickfergus

LIVED; Lower Woodburn, Carrickfergus

ENLISTED; Carrickfergus

FATE; Died of Wounds, France, June 8^th 1917 – Aged 24

CEMETERY; BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD (France) - III. C. 228.

CHURCH; 1^st Carrickfergus Presbyterian 

MEMORIAL;

REMARKS; Robert was the son of Thomas and Agnes Dalton and brother to William, Joanna and David.  Robert died in a clearing station in the town of Bailleul, France following injuries sustained during the Ulster Divisions attack on Messines Ridge.  He was buried just beside the clearing station in the Bailleul Communal Cememtery along with 124 other solider from the Royal Irish Rifles.  According to the 1911 census he worked as a messenger boy in Carrickfergus, news of his death was published in the Belfast Telegraph in late summer 1917.

Bailleul Communal British Cemetery