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Article: Tragedy of brave young soldier shot as a deserter; In the latest in a major series marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the First World War, Steven Moore visits the grave of an Ulster teenager whose death is still having repercussions.(Features)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 22, 1998
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A DUSTY track, worn by thousands of feet, passes alongside Sucrerie cemetery.
Largely overgrown today, particularly beyond the cemetery, it was once a main thoroughfare for troops making their way to and from the Somme front.
Ulster troops regularly trudged along the path, their relief as they made the return journey tempered with the sorrow of burying their dead at what was then an open plot by the side of the road.
Some 40 soldiers of the Royal Irish Rifles, who died between November, 1915, and March, 1916, were ultimately laid to rest in what ...