10th (Irish) Division
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The 10th Division, was one of the first of Kitchener's New Army K1 Army Group divisions, authorized on 21 August 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War. It included battalions from the various prov
Lord Kitchener, on the right on horseback, reviewing the 10th (Irish) Division at Basingstoke, Hampshire, June 1915.
Men of the 5th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, the divisional pioneers, shelter in the trenches on the Gallipoli Peninsula, August 1915.
A church service at the 10th (Irish) Division's Basingstoke camp, 1915
Guildhall Derry stained-glass window which commemorates the Three Irish Divisions, left the 36th, right the 10th and 16th
Bryan Mahon
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Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon, was an Irish general of the British Army, a senator of the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland and a member for eight years of the Irish Free State Senate until his death.
10th (Irish) Division
…after the outbreak of the Great War. It included battalions from the various provinces of Ireland. It was initially led by the Irish Lieutenant General Sir Bryan Mahon and fought at Gallipoli in 1915, Salonika, from 1915–1917, and Palestine from 1917–1918. It was the first of the Irish divisions to take to the field…
Mahon in 1910
Mahon at Salonika, 1916.
Lieutenant-General Mahon and French General Maurice Sarrail, along with other senior officers, at Salonika, March 1916.