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Private Robert Stuart McClure

 

Number: 9571

Company: 54th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion

ENLISTMENT

Date: 13 January 1900

Place: Belfast

Age: 22 years

Trade of calling: Clerk

Place of birth: Parish Kirkinriola, Town Ballymena, County Antrim

Family: Father James, mother Jane, of Craigywarren, Kirkinriola, County Antrim.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 6 3/4". Complexion pale, eyes grey, hair brown.

Religion: Presbyterian

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 3 March 1900

Campaigns: South Africa 1900

Service medal, clasps and other awards: South Africa Medal. Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps.

DEATH

Date: 31 May 1900 (also recorded as 28 and 29 May)

Place: Lindley

Cause: Killed in action

Commemorated: McClure is buried in the Lindley Cemetery. He is commemorated on the Lindley Cemetery Memorial and on the Yeomanry Kop Memorial, Lindley.

 

On 8 June 1900 the Northern Whig reported:

Trooper R. McClure was the son of a respected farmer near Ballymena, and for some time prior to his joining the Yeomanry had been resident in Belfast, being employed in the office of Messrs. Alex. Dickson & Sons, florists, with whom he served an apprenticeship. He resigned his situation in order to volunteer when the call for men came.

 

By Charles John McCullagh, law clerk, published in the Belfast Evening Telegraph, 8 June 1900

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