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NAME:                      Ahern, Rodney
RANK:                      Private (Drummer)
UNIT:                      Royal Dublin Fusiliers
BATTALION ETC:             1st Battalion
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         11298
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    Died of wounds on HM Hospital Ship Formosa at sea 8th August 1915 (CWGC & MIC) 13th August 1915 (Pension records)
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli)
OTHER INFORMATION:         Age 20. Son of Richard & Eliza Jane Ahern of 50 Paynes Road, Freemantle, Southampton.(Pension records)
                           55 Paynes Road, Southampton in CWGC.
                           Another pension record (around 1939) lists mother as deceased (but lived at Moorfield Road, Newbridge, Co. Kildare)
                           and dependant now father of Oakvale, Crabwood Road, Southampton.
                           Brother of Richard Ahern who also died.