Current Information:

Age-27

248, Victoria Dock Road, Custom House

St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France

Michael McAulliffe died from unspecified causes on 20th February, 1915, while in France. It is not known if he died from wounds or from illness, both of which took their toll of the men on the Western Front. 

At the beginning of the war in August 1914, the 1st Connaught Rangers battalion were in India as part of the Ferozepore Brigade, Lahore Division of the Indian Army which almost immediately set sail for Europe, landing at Marseilles on 26th September. From here they moved north in time to add their weight to the fighting at La Bassée and in February, 1915 were holding the line at Rue de l'Epinette to the north of Loos.