Inside Christ Church on O’Connell Street is a memorial plaque to the members of the congregation who died during the First World War.
“To the glory of God and in the abiding memory of…”
- Harold Austin – (No further information found)
- James S Dunn – the son of Janet and the late John Dunn and lived at Castle View Gardens. Before enlisting, he was an assistant at J Stewart’s Pharmacy, 45 George Street. He was a member of the Protestant Young Man’s Association and a member of the Young Men’s Hockey Club. He represented Munster in hockey during interprovincial matches, and Ireland in a game against Wales. Dunn enlisted with the Seaforth Highlanders just after the outbreak of the war. Died in 1917.
- William Morrison – (No further information found)
- C. Arnold Owens – Charles Arnold Owens was the son of William Henry Owens, a coal merchant, and Elizabeth Sarah Owens. He was a twenty-years-old Lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment and the younger brother of William Brabazon Owens. Died in 10 January 1917 and is memorialised on his family headstone in the grounds of St Mary’s Cathedral.
- William B. Owens – William Brabazon Owens was a past pupil of Villiers School and a graduate of Campbell College, Belfast, where he won a gold medal in mathematics. While attending Trinity College, Dublin, the war broke out and he joined the Royal Engineers. He soon reached the rank of Second Lieutenant. He was sent to the front where he was injured and returned to Limerick to recoup. The twenty-year-old, died on 25 June 1916 at Hazeldene, Limerick, after an operation for peritonitis. He received a military funeral and was buried in the grounds of St Mary’s Cathedral.
- P. Sidney Snell – Philip Sidney Snell, the only son of Philip Snell, Managing Director of Limerick Clothing Factory. Snell had joined the 6th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers in September 1914. He had been attending Trinity College Dublin, training to be a doctor at the time of his enlistment.
As a 2nd Lieutenant, a letter was written to his father in Limerick of his death 9 August 1915 at Chocolate Hill, Dardanelles: “… The last time I saw him, he was very gallantly leading his men in the face of very heavy shrapnel and rifle fire … We carried out a prolonged attack on 6 August on Chocolate Hill … In doing this he was struck in the small of the back by a spent bullet which bruised and hurt him, but he carried on as if nothing had happened” (A Stitch in Time, History of Limerick Clothing Factory, by Sharon Slater)
“…Members of this congregation who fell in the Great War A.D. 1914 – 1918. Erected by the Congregation”
