19 Nov. 1915 Death of Captain R. J. O'LONE This morning’s casualty list contains the name of Captain Robert J. O'LONE, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, who was mortally wounded last Friday while engaged on reconnoitring duty. Captain O'LONE was shot in the stomach, and died in a few minutes, his remains being laid to rest by his comrades. Deceased was the third son of Quartermaster-Sergeant John O’LONE, of Victoria Barracks, Belfast, and Loughries, Newtownards, who, despite his 73 years, rejoined on the outbreak of war, and has since been serving at the depot of the Rifles, his old regiment. Captain O’LONE was born in Belfast, and enlisted at the age of eighteen, spending the whole of his fourteen years’ service with the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, which he accompanied to the front from Tidworth in August, 1914, when he was quartermaster-sergeant. Amongst those who went out in the same regiment was his brother, Captain (then Sergeant) Walter P. O’LONE, who afterwards won the D.C.M. and a commission, and has been wounded and missing since the engagement at Hooge between 25th and 27th September.
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