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Father Duffy's story : $b a tale of humor and heroism, of life and death with the Fighting Sixty-ninth
Duffy, Francis Patrick
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 165th; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American
In the Regiment we had some good men of Scottish descent, but we
had a number who volunteered for the Regiment drawn by Irish race
feeling, bearing the names of Johnston, Cowie, Wilson, Bailey,
Armstrong, Saunders, Campbell, Thompson, Chambers, Gordon, Ross,
Scott, Watson, Stewart, Christy, Finlay, Grimson, Hamilton, Barr,
Graham, Gillespie, Black, Walker, Catterson, Robinson, Holmes, Grant,
Dunbar, Fraser, Kirk, Patterson, Gould, Wylie, Robinson, Roberts,
Donaldson, Ferguson, McMillan, McDonald, McGregor, McPherson,
Ogilvie, Craig, Cameron, McAndrews, McLean, McKay, MacIntosh, not
forgetting our Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Anderson.
We had three or four score Jews in the Regiment that went abroad but
there was a Coen, a Leavy and a Jacobs who were Irish.
Other regimental names that do not sound Irish to the ears of the
uninitiate but are familiar in every Irish group are Clifford, Duane,
Clark, Freeman, Winters, Phillips, Williams, Cunningham, Curtis,
Johnson, Gough, Harrison, Grace, Jones, Loftus, Medler, Matthews,
Morrison, Newman, King, Crawford, Biggar, Bambrick, Ring, Rice,
Blythe, Gray, Judge, Morgan, Caulfield, Gilbert, Gilgar, Campion,
Booth, Humphreys, Cook, Hill, Parks, Hunt, Garland, Gill, Warren,
Reed, Hurst, Jenkins, Rogers, Grimes, Summers, Smith, Green, Brown,
White, Martin, Mason, Lowe, Roe, Wade, Woods, Goodman, Fleming,
French, English, Holland, Thornton, Wall, Travis, Travers, Morgan,
Fletcher, Clinton, Richards, Jennings, Lynn, Taylor, Reynolds,
Grundy, Stanley, Turner, Edwards, Dean, Meade, Conville, Ward,
Clayton, Eustace, Lavelle, Clyne, Battle, Nelson, Wynne, Coppinger,
Morton, Oakes, Fullam, Lynott, Lynar, Lysaght, Long, Fennell, Tuers,
Birmingham, Hetherington, Temple, Whitty, Granville, Howard, Bealin,
Stanley, Vaughan, Adams, Nash, Coneys, Mylott, Brickley, Mitchell,
Diamond, De Witt, Hopkins, Quigg, Igo, Taylor, Ferris, Ledwith,
Forrestal, Lever, Hoey, Fox, Russell, Sutcliffe, Hillery, Fisher,
Kent, Boyce, Bevan, Rothwell, Adkins, Courtney, Mannix, Orr, Harris,
Farnan, Hackett, Hopkins, Gaynor, Gunn, Broe, Bush, Goss, Wilde, Cox,
Seagriff, Marshall, Davis, Bergen, Singleton, Rankin, Webb, Small.
Not all of the possessors of these names in the Regiment were bearers
of the Irish racial tradition, but the great majority of them were.
Sometimes the English sounding name was imported directly from
Ireland, and the man’s nationality was never in doubt after one heard
him speak, as in the case of Mansfield, Bugler, Maddock, Elwood, and
others. Sometimes all doubt was removed by the Christian name, as in
the cases of Patrick Ames, Patrick Stokes, Patrick Thynne, Patrick
Porteous, Patrick Carlisle, Patrick Benson, Patrick Travers, Patrick
Fawcett, Patrick Gorham, Patrick Masterson, or Michael Goodman,
Michael Douglas, Michael Bowler, Michael Gettings, Denis Richardson,
Bernard Clinton, Robert Emmett Mitchell, Bernard Granville, Francis
X. Goodwin, John J. Booth.
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