james driscoll

[tancor1]

i am trying to trace the service record of the husband of a distant relative.
He is James Driscoll born 1886 in Tralee County Kerry Ireland, he could have been in the Irish Rifle Regiment.
He married Susan Flynn

[MaxD]

There are records for a James Driscoll in the Royal Irish Rifles who served from about 1898 (just possible to have joined at that age if he fibbed) and who was commissioned after the war.  None of the records have anything to confirm his place/date of birth or any other info.
There are many other J Driscolls, none that have Tralee/Kerry linked.

Does his marriage cert have any military detail?

MaxD

[tancor1]

The only thing it says on marriage certificate his occupation was soldier.

[MaxD]

I should have asked did he survive the war? A James Driscoll with a wife Susan in the Munster Fusiliers died while interned in Switzerland?

MaxD

[tancor1]

I do not know his death but I have been unable to find any children from the marriage, Susan died in 1966 and it states she is a widow of a British soldier she died in tralee

[MaxD]

When was the marriage?

MaxD

[Sinann]

Thread with all the known details on James from reply #12
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=799324.msg6569797#msg6569797
His father was John, deceased at the time of the marriage, machinist. James was full age.

[MaxD]

Thanks Sinann.  Marriage in 1911 certainly could fit the 1898 soldier but the widow's name looks as if it is a coincidence.  That man I now find came from Dunmanway Cork.

As has been pointed out before, without a service record there are no further clues on the military side.

MaxD

[tancor1]

thanks for trying to help with James Driscoll