Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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25/10/2021
25/10/2021 Private James Murtagh is commemorated locally on Dungannon War Memorial.
25/10/2021 Private James Murtagh has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916.
25/10/2021 Private James Murtagh was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action in France on 27th January 1917.
25/10/2021 James Murtagh enlisted in Omagh.
25/10/2021 James Murtagh was born in Dungannon.
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