John Condon

• The body in the unmarked grave was misidentified as Condon based on an ambiguous boot stamping 6322 4/R.I.R. found at exhumation.
• The stamp was interpreted by the Imperial War Graves Commission as being Regimental Number 6322 of the 4th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment.
• Condon was not in the 4th but the 3rd battalion
• The same stamping could denote 6322 Rifleman Patrick Fitzsimmons, 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Rifles, KIA 16 June 1915, who previously was in the 4th battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
• While the 2nd R. I. Rifles fought at the location of the exhumation, the 3rd R. I. Regiment did not.
• No body was ever identified as 6322 Rifleman Patrick Fitzsimmons. He is listed on the Menin Gate memorial.[5]

1880 parents marriage

1888 Kate born

1891 Peter born

1893 Margaret born

1896 Oct 16 John born

1901 census at 12 Jenkins Lane, Waterford City,

1911 census at Wheelbarrow Lane, Waterford

1913 Oct 24 Enlisted in Royal Irish Regt Special Reserve. He gave his dob as 24 Oct 1895

1914 Aug 7 mobilised

1914 Dec 16 landed in France

1915 May 24 Killed in Action

1915 Ag 23 His sister married

His father died. Death witnessed by sister

Ypres graves