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12/06/2018 Private Frank Duffey has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium
12/06/2018 Private Frank Duffey was serving with the 74th Foot, 2nd Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry when he was killed in action at Ypres on Sunday 1st November 1914.
12/06/2018 The 1901 census shows a possible listing of Frank Duffy, age 17, living at house 8 in Corlacky, Swatragh, County Londonderry. The census records he was born in America. He was working as a servant. He was living with Mary Friel and her son Patrick.
12/06/2018 Frank was raised by his grandfather, P Clerkin at Corlecky, Swatragh, County Derry.
12/06/2018 Frank Duffy was born in either America or County Derry, about 1884.
12/06/2018 Intimation has been received in Maghera that Private Frank Duffy, of the Inniskillings, has been killed in action at the front. He was well-known in the district, where he was raised by his grandfather, the late Mr P Clerkin, Corlecky, Swateragh.
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12/06/2018 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 28th November 1914:
12/06/2018 DUFFY – Killed in action at the front, Private Frank Duffy, grandson of the late Mr P Clerkin, Corlecky, Swateragh.
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12/06/2018 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 28th November 1914:
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