Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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23/09/2016 Rifleman P Diamond, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, who was wounded on the 25th September, has been on a short visit to his home in Kilrea.
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23/09/2016 From the Belfast Newsletter dated 30th October 1915:
14/03/2016 His mother died on 7th January 1920.
14/03/2016 Patrick was born in Kilrea about 1886.
14/03/2016 The family lived in Claragh, just north of Kilrea.
14/03/2016 Patrick Diamond enlisted in Belfast around 1900 and was with 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles.
14/03/2016 The 1901 census does not list Patrick as living with the family at house 2 in Claragh, Kilrea, County Londonderry. His father was a farmer.
14/03/2016 The 1911 census does not list Patrick as living with the family at house 1 in Claragh, Kilrea. His mother was a widow. They were farmers.
14/03/2016 The 1st Battalion was in Aden when war was declared and embarked for the U.K. on 27th September arriving at Liverpool on 22nd October 1914.
14/03/2016 Rifleman Diamond was given leave at this time and arrived home in Kilrea for a full week.
14/03/2016 Rifleman Patrick Diamond had done about sixteen years in the army and served throughout the South African Campaign.
14/03/2016 Rifleman Diamond was wounded on the 25th September 1915.
14/03/2016 According to other resources (see references) Patrick Diamond was the son of John & Alice Diamond. The CWGC record his mother as Mary.
14/03/2016 On the 30th June 1916, five men were killed in action as the result of shellfire in the Somme region. Rifleman Patrick Diamond was one of them.
14/03/2016 Rifleman Patrick Diamond has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. 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.
14/03/2016 The CWGC record Rifleman Patrick Diamond as the son of Mrs Mary Diamond of Gortmacrane, Kilrea, County Londonderry.
14/03/2016 Possible family: John Diamond, Alice Diamond, Henry Diamond (born 1872), Kate Diamond (born 1874), Maggie Diamond (born 1876), Rosella Diamond (born 1880), Patrick Diamond (born 1886).
14/03/2016 Last Will and Testament of Private Patrick Diamond dated 30th December 1915
14/03/2016 In the event of my death I give all my ?? to my father. Address unreadable.
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14/03/2016 He was then in hospital another time before being sent home to recuperate in Kilrea.
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