Gerald Fitzgerald

Name

Gerald Fitzgerald

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

01/07/1916
26

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Lieutenant
Northumberland Fusiliers
26th Bn. (3rd Tyneside Irish)
'C' Coy.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY, ALBERT
II. N. 5.
France

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

St Edmunds College Memorial, Old Hall Green

Biography

The following text was transcribed from the The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College:

There were two obituaries printed.  The first appearing below was brief and followed by one with more detail.

Son of Alderman FitzGerald of New-castle, Gerald was a student at St. Edmund's from 1903 to the end of 1906. We have received news of his death on active service, but unfortunately are unable to obtain any information as to the circumstances.

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In our last number we briefly recorded the death in action of Gerald FitzGerald, but were unable to say anything of the circumstances of his gallant end. He was the youngest son of Alderman John FitzGerald, ex-Lord Mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and came to St. Edmund's in 1903, being then eleven or twelve years old. He remained at the College for three years, and ultimately joined his father's business. When war 

broke out, he joined the battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers which Alderman FitzGerald had done so much to raise. He took part in the advance of the British troops on July 1 last year and fell as he was calling to his men “Come on !" 

Acknowledgments

Jonty Wild, Di Vanderson, The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College