British Army Veterinary Corps
Edward Spread MULCAHY-MORGAN
Lieutenant
Died 27 October 1914 · Aged 25
His story
Captain Edward Spread Mulcahy-Morgan MRCVS was the son of Mr. E.S. Mulcahy-Morgan of County Wicklow, Ireland. Edward had joined the Royal Irish Rifles on 5 April 1909 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
Captain Mulcahy-Morgan went to France in August 1914 with the Royal Irish Rifles. The 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles was based at Tidworth with the 7th Brigade,3rd Division, when war broke out in August 1914. They proceeded to France with the British Expeditionary Force, landing at Rouen on 14 August.
Captain Mulcahy-Morgan was reported wounded and missing on 27th October 1914.
The War Diary of the Brigade on the day records
“the corps suffered very severe losses from Shrapnel, Howitzer and Rifle fire and Captain Dixon was obliged to retire …. only two officers and about 46 NCOs and men succeeded in getting back out of a total of 5 officers and 250 NCOs and men. Captain Davis being killed, Lieutenant Mulcahy–Morgan wounded and missing, and Captain Jonsson missing.”
Captain Mulcahy-Morgan is commemorated on a wall panel in the Le Touret Memorial Pas de Calais, France. This suggests that his body was lost in battle and not recovered, or that it could not be identified. The Register of Soldiers Effects 1901-1929 has the entry “death accepted,” further reinforcing that his body may not have been found or could not be identified.
A memorial plague remembers Edward Spread Mulcahy.
Before the war
- Nationality
- British
- Date of Birth
- 10 November 1888
- Place of Birth
- Clondalkin, Dublin, Ireland
- Veterinary College and Date of Graduation
- Dublin - December 1913
Military service
- Last Rank
- Lieutenant
- Regiment/Service
- British Army Veterinary Corps
- Secondary Regiment
- 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
- Secondary Unit
- 7th Brigade
- First Theatre of War
- France 1914
Medals and commemoration
- Name on RCVS Honour Board
- Yes
- Name In Officers who died in Great War
- Yes
- Medals and Awards
- British War Medal 1914-1918; Victory Medal
Death and burial
- Date of Death
- 27 October 1914
- Age at Death
- 25
- Place of Death
- France
- Cause of Death
- Wounds received in action
- Cemetery
- Le Touret Memorial Cemetery France
- Location
- Pas de Calais, France
- Grave Reference
- Memorial Panel 42 and 43
- Commonwealth War Grave
- Yes - CWGC Headstone
- Emblem or Badge on Headstone
- British Army Veterinary Corps
Sources and further reading
Cite this biography
Graham Hodgkins and Pete Matthews, “Edward Spread Mulcahy-Morgan”, Veterinary Virtual War Memorial, https://vetsremembered.org/people/edward_spread_mulcahy-morgan/.
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