New York’s Irish Soldiers Bloodied, Battle Tested in Trenches of WWI [Image 6 of 6]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY, UNITED STATES

03.19.1918

Photo by Col. Richard Goldenberg 

New York National Guard

Father Francis Duffy, Regimental Chaplain of the 165th Infantry Regiment, the Army’s famous “Fighting 69th” Irish regiment, officiates a funeral service for a Soldier of the 117th Field Signal Battalion of the 42nd Infantry “Rainbow Division” March 19, 1918. Duffy spent much of March 1918 officiating for the casualties of the Irish regiment’s first combat casualties of WWI, including the 21 Soldiers killed by the Rouge Bouquet artillery barrage March 7, 1918. The Rainbow Division spent March 1918 under French command to gain combat experience in trench warfare of the Western Front. The division would serve in its own sector as a full division combat force in April 1918. Photo courtesy of the New York State Military Museum.

• Date Taken: 03.19.1918
• Date Posted: 03.07.2018 13:27
• Photo ID: 4194527
• VIRIN: 180307-Z-A3538-0006
• Resolution: 1337x1040
• Size: 435.03 KB
• Location: SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY, US