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About 200,000 Irish people served in the Allied forces in the Great War; at a minimum 35,500 of those died on the battlefields. Few households on the island would have been left untouched by the loss.
About 200,000 Irish people served in the Allied forces in the Great War; at a minimum 35,500 of those died on the battlefields. Few households on the island would have been left untouched by the loss. Each story has its own sadness: Private Jack Tansey sent a wildflower with each letter to his wife and was killed just a week before the end of the war; sixteen year old Frank Forde had fooled the recruiting sergeant and was killed at the Somme; Lance Sergeant William O'Reilly had eloped with his sweetheart in 1914, but his wife died a few months after giving birth to their daughter, whom he never saw.

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