Bernard Flood

[Ladyhawk]

A bit confused by this

Bernard Flood born c1868
No. 2339, 6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Regiment

Bernard Flood born c 1885 record shows father named as Bernard Flood
No. 3410 Royal Irish Rifles

2339 would have had an attestation date of 1888/9 so is this the Father's no. ?
There's wasn't a 6th Batt. at that time.

3410 appears to have an attestation date of 1892.

Hi Jim don't know if these details will help with Bernard Snr.

Bernard Flood 1868 St Peters Drogheda Louth Ireland
Service number   2339
Regiment   -
Year   1897
Attestation date   02 Mar 1897
Attestation age years   29
Attestation service number   2339
Attestation corps   6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Regiment
Document type   Attestation
Series   WO 96 - Militia service records 1806-1915
Archive   The National Archives
Archive reference   WO 96
Box   1131
Box record number   80
Record set   British Army Service Records

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Militia Attestation of
No. 3410 name Bernard Flood Corps 6/Roy. I. Rifles
Parish of St Peter’s near Town of Droheda in Co. of Louth, age 19 years
At the bottom of the the declaration  signed at Drogheda & dated 5th Feb 1904

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next page statement of service of no 2339 Bernard Flood
RIR Bn 6 period of service from 2.3.97 to 12.4.97

'A' Coy has been written at the top of both Snr. & Jnr. Bernard Flood's pages - does not mean anything to me  does it to you?

[jim1]

Couldn't understand this at first however they are the 6th. RIR Militia formed out of the Drogheda/Louth Militia.
So part-timers.
A Batt. had 4 Coys. A,B,C & D.

Assuming for the moment he enlisted pretty early on which his age might indicate & in an Irish Regt. I found 2, 1 in the RDF  who died WW1 & the other in the 6th. RIR no. 6/7458, enlisted 19/9/14, discharged due to wounds 7/1918.
He received the 15 Star, BW & V Medals.

I would say this is probably him re-enlisting into the 6th. Service Batt.

[carthy2015]

Woyld 3410 bernard floods army number