Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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25/07/2016 Lance Corporal James McAleece has no known grave and is commemorated on panel 15A-15B on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
25/07/2016
07/07/2016 On the 1st July 1916 they were in the front line in readiness for the Somme Offensive.
07/07/2016
30/12/2015 James McAleece is commemorated on Stewartstown Cenotaph and on Donaghendry Church of Ireland Roll of Honour (as James McAleish), Stewartstown.
30/12/2015 By the end of that day, 133 men of the 11th Royal Irish Rifles had been killed in action, including Lance Corporal McAleece.
30/12/2015 They arrived at Boulogne in October 1915 and the Battalion underwent further training, being posted to other more experienced units on the Western Front.
30/12/2015 He enlisted at Clandeboye with the 11th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles. The Battalion was raised in County Antrim from the Antrim Volunteers and trained at Clandeboye and Seaford.
30/12/2015 James McAleece was born in Stewartstown, County Tyrone. At the start of the War he was living at Ballyveney, Stewartstown.
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