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Three days after he was killed during the First Battle of Ypres.The British Expeditionary Force that left to go to France in the early times of the war included several units from an Irish permanent unit of an army. Their ranks had also traditionally contained English Roman Catholics. At the disruption of war in August the year of 1914 there were approximately 30,000 Irish males serving in the British Army. Those thay were serving overseas were recalled back to Britain and another 30,000 members of the military reserve forces were called up.Educational guesses of how many Irish males had fought in the First World War differ, but it is now generally accepted that approximately 200,000 soldiers from the island of Ireland served over the course of the war.Most of them would not be the professional soldiers and Territorials who fought in those first violent confrontation in 1914, but were