Leitrim WW1 soldier remembered at Roll of Honour
Private Daniel McDermott from North Leitrim was remembered at the ceremony in Scotland
Among those commemorated on an Edinburgh, Scotland, 1914-1918 War Dead monument and inscribed on a Seafield Oil Works Roll of Honour plaque in the Scottish City, is Private Daniel McDermott from Mullies, Manorhamilton, a Connaught Rangers soldier who died in World War I.
Noting the Mullies native's details, the Edinburgh memorial plaque states, “Daniel was the only son of Patrick McDermott, a Labourer, and Katherine McDermott, of Lisnabrack, Manorhamilton, County Leitrim.
“He was born in Killasnett, County Leitrim and died on 3 September, 1916, age 30.” Daniel McDermott was one of twenty soldiers and former employees of the Seafield Oil Works who gave up their lives in World War I, and his name is listed on the commemorative plaque at the plant with the nineteen other staff members who made the supreme sacrifice.
An inscription on the bottom of the memorial plaque in Edinburgh quoting from St. John’s Gospel states, “Greater love has no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends.”
The Connaught Rangers 6th (Service) Battalion fought at the World War 1 Battle of the Somme in France between 1 July 1916 and 18 November 1916. The Battle of the Somme had over 3,500 Irish casualties.