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Luke C. Farrell
| Rank: | Private |
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| Townland: | Lisnacusha |
| Town/Village: | Lanesborough |
| Civil Parish: | Rathcline |
| Catholic Parish: | Rathcline |
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| Census 1901: |
Residing at Lisnacush, Rathcline, Longford www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Longford/Rathcline/Lisnacush/1554180/ |
| Census 1911: |
Residing at Lisnacush, Rathcline, Longford www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Longford/Rathcline/Lisnacush/649807/ |
| Regiment/Unit: | Irish Guards, 1st Battalion |
| Regiment Number: | 4915 |
| Date of Death: | 01-02-1915 |
| Cause: | Killed in action, Cuinchy, France |
| Memorial: | Cuinchy Communal Cemetery, France |
| Information: | Luke was born 9 August 1886 to a family of 10 children. He enlisted for the amy in Dublin. For Winter Operations Pte. Farrell was engaging in the Affairs of Cuinchy, where attack and counter-attack had been taking place between the British and Germans since 29 January until early February. It was during these counter-attacks that Luke was killed in action aged 28 years. His brother, Fr. Peter Farrell was a chaplain in the army during the First World War. |
| Parents Names: | Son of Luke and Susanna (née Clarke), Farrell of Lisnacusha, Lanesborough. |
| Notes: | His father Luke was a publican in Lanesborough. |
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