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Child Soldiers of WW1. 28 th March 2014. Youngest Soldier of WW1. John Condon, Ireland: Served with the Royal Irish Regiment Died on 24 th May 1915 in a German gas attack near Ypres. John Cornwell, VC Born 8 th January 1900
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Child Soldiers of WW1 28th March 2014
John Condon, Ireland: Served with the Royal Irish Regiment Died on 24th May 1915 in a German gas attack near Ypres
John Cornwell, VC Born 8th January 1900 Died of wounds received in the Battle of Jutland, 2nd June 1916
Alec Campbell, Australian Enlisted aged 16 Landed with the Australian Forces at Gallipoli in 1915 Invalided home six weeks later Died in Hobart Australia on 16th May 2002, aged 103
posted by illovich at 6:56 PM on August 30, 2006 My boy Jack "If any question why we died Tell them, because our fathers lied," • Kipling, after his son Jack died at the Battle of Loos, 6 weeks after his 18th birthday.