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A list of survivors from the Island of Ireland who served in World War 1 and who returned home either to Ireland or elsewhere; Department of the Taoiseach: Irish Soldiers in the First World War; Jeffery, Prof. Keith: Ireland and the First World War from "Irish History Live" at Queen's University, Belfast; The Irish Story archive on World War I
Ireland Chaco War: 0.08–0.13 million [236] [237] [238] 1932–1935 Paraguay vs. Bolivia Paraguay and Bolivia Nanda–Mauryan War: 0.1 million [239] 323 BCE–321 BCE Maurya Empire vs. Nanda Empire: Indian subcontinent Federal War: 0.1 million [240] 1859–1863 Federal rebels vs. Conservative government Venezuela Wars of Alexander the Great
This is a list of the last known surviving veterans of the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) who lived to 1999 or later, along with the last known veterans for countries that participated in the war.
The main memorials to the Irish war dead, one in France and one in Belgium, are the Ulster Tower and the Island of Ireland Peace Park, unveiled in 1921 and 1998 respectively. Delville Wood Memorial (South Africa) Vimy Memorial (Canada) Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australia) Neuve-Chapelle Memorial (India) Beaumont-Hamel Memorial (Newfoundland)
Ireland; Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom during World War I. Five-sixths of the island left to form the Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland, in 1922. A total of 206,000 Irishmen served in the British forces during the war. [98]
6 counties of Northern Ireland remain part of UK; United Kingdom retains the Ports of Berehaven, Spike Island and Lough Swilly; Irish Civil War (1922–1923) National Army [3] Irish Republican Army [3] Victory. Confirmation of the Irish Free State; Defeat of Anti-Treaty forces; Congo Crisis (1960–1964) ONUC Ireland [4] [5] Others Katanga: Victory
She sank in just 18 minutes 8 nmi (15 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland killing 1,199 out of the 1,959 of the people aboard. 1,199 Civilian 1916 United Kingdom: HMS Invincible – a British battlecruiser that exploded and sank in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May. 1,026 men were lost; six survived. 1,026 Navy 1916 United Kingdom
The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur Mee in the 1930s; in Enchanted Land (1936), the introductory volume to The King's England series of guides, he wrote that a Thankful Village was one which had lost no men in the war because all those who left to serve came home again. His initial list identified 32 villages.