Did your ancestor attend the Royal Hibernian Military School in Dublin? This publication tells the history of the school as well as includes transcriptions from memorial inscriptions, a roll of honour from the First World War, and transcripts from both the 1901 and 1911 census. The Royal Hibernian Military School was first founded in 1765 and closed in 1924.
Did your ancestor attend the Royal Hibernian Military School in Dublin? This publication tells the history of the school as well as includes transcriptions from memorial inscriptions, a roll of honour from the First World War, and transcripts from both the 1901 and 1911 census. The Royal Hibernian Military School was first founded in 1765 and closed in 1924.
The Royal Hibernian Military School was founded in 1765 in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Today, it is the site of St Mary’s Hospital. When the school closed in 1924, all the registers and minute books were taken to Walworth, London. However, during the Second World War, these documents were destroyed in the Blitz. The Ireland, Royal Hibernian Military school history provides a substitute for the records that were lost during the German attacks on London. The publication was edited by G H O’Reilly and published in May 2001. It includes the following parts:
Transcripts from both censuses recorded the person’s name, relationship to head of household, religion, ability to read and write, age, occupation, marital status, and place of birth.
Each memorial inscription includes the individual’s name, age, and date of death, as well as comments such as the state of the memorial or cross on the grave.
O’Reilly’s lists recorded the deceased’s name, age or birthdate, age on entering the Royal Hibernian Military School, and father’s regiment. Other entries may provide additional information, such as names of parents, names of grandparents, or an address.
The transcription was taken from a memorial obelisk from the First World War. The memorial provides each person’s name, rank, regiment, and awarded medals. You can also find an image of the memorial.
The roll of honour was compiled from the details printed in Hibernia, the school’s quarterly publication. Image 108 provides a list of abbreviations used. Each entry includes the soldier’s service number, rank, name, and regiment, as well as date, cause, and location of death.
A PDF uses a direct search function, which means it will not search for name variants. If your searches do not yield results, try searching for your ancestor’s name as it would appear on an official record. For example, search for Patrick instead of Pat or Paddy.
The image number correlates with the number of images in the document and not the page number. Image number 1 is the front cover. Therefore, when you are searching for a specific page add 2 to the page number. For example, the memorial inscriptions from the graveyard at RHMS begins on page 70, which is image number 72.