Army and WWI
He enlisted in the Royal Munster Fusiliers on 24 March 1909 and was given the regimental number 8980. Life in the army for William up to 1914 would appear to have been very mundane, but the declaration of war in August 1914 drastically changed all that. At the outbreak of war the 1st Battalion of the Munster’s was stationed in Rangoon, Burma, as regular battalions were regularly stationed overseas. They left Rangoon on 21 November 1914 and with them came Corporal William Cosgrove and landed in England on 10 January 1915, still in their Indian issue uniforms and stood on the quays shivering in their khaki drill shorts. The battalion was then assigned to the 86th Brigade of the 29th Division (United Kingdom), in preparation for the landings at the Dardanelles.
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