{"id":2686,"date":"2016-04-08T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T14:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:29:11","slug":"clongowes-wood-college-former-pupils-at-the-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/clongowes-wood-college-former-pupils-at-the-front\/","title":{"rendered":"CLONGOWES WOOD COLLEGE. FORMER PUPILS AT THE FRONT."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kildare Observer <\/strong><strong>13 February 1915<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CLONGOWES WOOD COLLEGE. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FORMER PUPILS AT THE FRONT.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A list has been compiled of former pupils of Clongowes Wood College who are at present serving with the military and naval forces. Since its publication other names have come under the editor\u2019s notice so that the total numbers now over 250. Six old Clongownians who already been killed. They were Captain Gerard L.E. Sherlock, 3rd King\u2019s Own Hussars; Capt. Richard Domonic O\u2019 Connor, R.A.M.C.; (mentioned in despatches); Lieutenant Patrick M\u2019Donagh, Royal West Kent Regiment; Surgeon James Barrett, R.N., and Captain Hugh Conor O\u2019Brien, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Twelve Clongownians have been wounded, four have been made prisoners, and three have been wounded and made prisoners. Four, as well as Lieutenant-Colonel Dalton, have gained distinctions in the present war, namely- Captain Charles V. Fox, D.S.O., of the Scots Guards; Surgeon-General T. J. O\u2019Donnell, D.S.O., of the R.A.M.C. (mentioned in despatches) Capt J. J. O\u2019Keeffe, R.A.M.C. (Legion of Honour), and Lieut. H. K. O\u2019Kelly, D.S.O., West Riding Regt. The following clergymen are chaplains: &#8211; Rev. Edward O\u2019Donoghue, Rev. Henry V. Gill, S.J.; Rev. John Gwynn, S.J., and Rev. Joseph Hearn S.J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kildare Observer 13 February 1915 CLONGOWES WOOD COLLEGE. FORMER PUPILS AT THE FRONT. A list has been compiled of former pupils of Clongowes Wood College who are at present serving with the military and naval forces. Since its publication other names have come under the editor\u2019s notice so that the total numbers now over 250. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-history","category-people"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}