Corporal (later Lieutenant) David George Morgan Mooney
Number: 9371
Company: 46th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion, First Contingent
ENLISTMENT
Date: 3 January 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 23 years 9 months
Trade or calling: Farmer
Place of birth: In the Parish of Drumskellan, in or near the Town of Derry, in the County of Donegal
Address: Carlisle Road, Londonderry
Family: Single. Father William Mooney, labourer, mother Martha Mooney (nee McGarrigh), of 67 Foyle Road, Londonderry.
Previous military service: Nil
Description: Height 5' 8 1/2. Complexion fresh, eyes brown, hair brown. Mole left forearm.
Religion: Presbyterian
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 3 March 1900
Date home: __
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Rhodesia, 1901 clasps
DISCHARGE
Date: 14 May 1901
Place: South Africa
Reason for discharge: To take up a commission in the Imperial Yeomanry.
Mooney was among the 400 men captured by Boer forces at Lindley in May 1900. He was released on 30 August with the other members of the 13th Battalion when the British captured Nooitgedacht. He was mentioned in a letter home by Lance Corporal Ben Johnston.
He was commissioned as a Lieutenant on 15 May 1901 and posted to the 61st (South Irish Horse) Company (New), 17th Battalion. He relinquished his commission on 16 August 1902.
Image from the Belfast Weekly Telegraph, 10 March 1900.
This page last updated 24 December 2024.