Lives of the First World War

Extract of a poem by Tom Kettle is engraved on a memorial stone at the Irish Peace Park and Round Tower in Mesen, Belgium.

Park contains memorial stone with extract of poem by Lieutenant Thomas Kettle.

Statue commemorating Thomas Kettle, St. Stephens Green, Dublin, Ireland

Statue commemorates Lt. Thomas Kettle 'Poet, Essayist, Patriot' and confirms dates of birth/death 1880-1916. It also states that he died at Guinchy on 9th September, 1916. The statue is in the centre of St. Stephens Green in the Victorian gardens area.

Inscription on upper part of statue

Inscription on lower part of statue

WW1 Memorial in the British Houses of Parliament, of which Thomas Kettle was a Member at the time if his death.

Photograph taken by Charlotte Czyzyk, June 2016

Lieutenant 9th Battalion The Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Killed in action on the 9th of September 1916 aged 36. He was the son of Andrew J. and Margaret Kettle, of Newtown, St. Margaret's, Co. Dublin; husband of Mary S. Kettle (nee Sheehy), of 3, Belgrave Park, Rathmines, Dublin. Member of Parliament for East Tyrone, and the Professor of National Economics at University College, Dublin. Poet, journalist, essayist and idealist. A leading Irish Nationalist, he joined the Dublin Fusiliers when Belgium was attacked, to fight "not for England, but for small nations." One of the outstanding Irishmen of his generation, he wrote a number of war poems. Killed in action at the Battle of the Somme. Poems and Parodies, published 1916, and The Ways of War, published 1917. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Report appearing in the Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 20 September 1916