“Had I but one last fond look into your loving face, Or had I only got the chance to kneel down in that place, To hold your head, my darling son, while your life blood ebbed away, My heart would not have felt so much the tears I shed to-day. In June 1917 shortly after being notified that William was now officially considered to have been killed, his parents inserted the following poem in the Herald. They were the sons of Maggie and Thomas Abbott of 15 McKeown Street, Lisburn where all three brothers lived. James and Thomas were both wounded in the same action. Reported MIA and subsequently, in June 1917, confirmed as having been KIA on the Somme on the 1.7.16 aged 26, his death is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France, pier and face 5C or 12C. He embarked with them as a rifleman from Bordon Camp for France in October 1915 but subsequently transferred to 108 Company MGC 17676. Lisburn Company of the UVF) and Rifleman Thomas. He enlisted in Lisburn and serving in A Company 11 RIR (17114) along with his two brothers Sergeant James (who belonged to the 1 st. Born in Lisburn, he lived at 15 McKeown Street in the town and was a member of the Heroes Temperance LOL 141.
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