Photograph of two soldiers. John Joseph Mahon is the standing soldier. || Front

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Joseph A Phillips joined the Connaught Rangers in Galway, fought in the Boer War and was later stationed in India. He married in India in 1907, and returned with his wife to Ireland in 1908, where he worked as a recruiting officer. He fought at Ronsoi Woods, and the Battle of the Somme, and was killed in action in France on 21 March 1918. He died with the rank of Sergeant Major, Service No 6669 in the Connaught Rangers 6th Battalion, and is buried in Ste Emilie Valley Cemetery, at Villers-Faucon. || Photograph of Joseph Phillips in uniform, with a bicycle, taken in Ballyshannon.