Robert Kildahl Dilworth

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Robert was the son of Mrs. M. T. Dilworth, of 17 Palmerston Rd., Clontarf, Dublin, and the late Mr. W.T. Dilworth. His father was Secretary to the Board of National Education, Ireland.

Robert joined Campbell in 1911, progressing four years later to Sandhurst in August 1915. Successfully passing out of Sandhurst by April 1916 he was gazetted to the Royal Munster Fusiliers and sent to France in September of the same year, aged just 19 years old. Robert was Killed in Action on the 28th December 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme France – Pier and Face 16C.

OC number 1181
Second Lieutenant
2nd Battalion, The Royal Munster Fusiliers

The battalion diary for the date he was killed noted, …A raid was organised against portion of enemy line near the MAZE. 2L/T R. K. Dilworth Killed in action…

He was mortally wounded by enemy machine gun fire, another officer and a private tried to bring in Robert’s body but this they were unable to do.

He is also commemorated on a plaque in the Reading Room at Trinity College, Dublin and the war memorial at the Church of St. John the Baptist, Dublin.

And commemorated on The Great War Memorial Roll of Honour, St Philip's Church, Temple Road, Dublin.