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Private John Condon (No. 6322) of 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment came from Waterford in Ireland. He is believed to have been the youngest soldier killed...
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Nationwide 10 Nov 2003 RTEThe youngest casualty of the First World War had not yet reached his 14th birthday when he was killed on the fields of Flanders in ...
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This is a beautiful song about the youngest soldier to die in the British Army in WW1. He was in the Royal Irish Regiment from Waterford, Ireland and died o...
The popularity of the grave is undimmed despite the documentary evidence which suggests that John Condon was 18 not 14 when he died. His birth certificate states that he was born on October 16th ...
May 20, 2014 · John Condon was just 14 years old when he was killed on the bloody battlefields of Flanders in Belgium in May 1915. The young private, from Waterford city, had lied about his age in 1913 - a year ...
There is some dispute as to his real age, but the tombstone of the boy from Waterford, Ireland says he died at the age of 14 at the Second Battle of the Ypres in 1915. This means he is the youngest soldier to perish in World War I. The Boy Soldier. Condon was born in Waterford and enlisted in the Royal Irish Regiment’s 3rd Battalion in 1913.
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Second Battle of Ypres †. Pte. John Condon (5 October 1897 – 24 May 1915) was an Irish soldier born in Waterford. He was mistakenly believed to have been the youngest Allied soldier killed during the First World War, at the age of 14 years; he lied about his age and he claimed to be 18 years old when he signed up to join the army in 1913.
