Irish Soldiers' Records

The 16 soldiers listed below were members of five units of the British Army which were disbanded following the establishment of the independent Irish Free State in 1922. They each had a Canadian connection; born, address of next of kin, or address on discharge.

FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	ROLE	DATE	PLACE	REGISTRATION TYPE
John	Hill	soldier	06/03/1919	Maymyo	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
Cyril Joseph	Lee	soldier	28/07/1919	Cork	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
Thomas	Shearer	soldier	27/01/1903	Galway	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
Patrick	Dolan	soldier	12/08/1915	Dublin	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
Ernest	Day	soldier	10/03/1910	Stratford E.	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
John	Cody	soldier	29/04/1915	Wexford	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
William Samuel	Collins	soldier	25/10/1919	Whitehall S.W.	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
John Basil Trelawney	Button	soldier	21/06/1921	Plymouth	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
Albert	Mulholland	soldier	04/04/1919	Rugeley Camp	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
Frank	O'Sullivan	soldier	03/10/1921	Cork	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
John	Muldoon	soldier	15/12/1919	Dublin	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
Francis	O'Flynn	soldier	05/02/1920	Cork	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
John Joseph Patrick	Cashin	soldier	02/11/1910	Kilkenny	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
James	Rodger	soldier	11/03/1919	Maymyo	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
Henry	Harrison	soldier	26/07/1909	Dublin	Enlistment	Scans linked to deed
Alfred George	Watling	soldier	14/07/1920	London	Enlistment

The units disbanded were the Connaught Rangers, the Leinster Regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Regiment and the Royal Munster Fusiliers.

Listed with links to images of original records, this information is from a database of 11,981 recordsfrom the National Army Museum at www.nam.ac.uk/soldiers-records/persons.

Some of these list address or discharge with the notation "Comm. Of Emigration". I'm curious about that organization. Any information to share?