CO-KLBG-0231

Record Date: 
26 June 2013
Graveyard: 
Kilbrogan
Exact wording of epitaph: 

235414 SAPPER
T. DILLON
ROYAL ENGINEERS
12TH FEBRUARY 1917 AGE 30 

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.75590707005
Longitude: 
-8.7362444399964
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
War Graves Commission
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Sapper
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
DILLON
Date of death - day: 
12
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1917
Age: 
30
Notes: 

This is a Commonwealth Headstone

Thomas Dillon joined the Inland Water Transport Section of the Royal Engineers. He died in a military hospital in London on the 12th February 1917 at the age of 30 years. Thomas’s remains were conveyed back to Ireland and he was buried here with full military honours by the Royal Field Battalion, with rifles reversed.  Descendants still reside in County Cork.