page_title: Willie Redmond
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Willie Redmond / Death
caption_attribution_description: Image of a Great War bronze cast commemorative plaque inside the central Four Courts of Justice in Dublin, Ireland. It is inscribed with the text: In Memory of the Irish Barristers who fell in the Great War 1914-1918. It lists twenty-four Irish barristers, including Thomas Kettle and Willie Redmond.
context_page_description: William Hoey Kearney Redmond was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer and soldier, who was killed in action in World War I.
context_section_description: The Irish troops of the 16th and 36th Divisions made a shoulder-to-shoulder successful advance in the great attack on the Messines Ridge towards the small village of Wytschaete (now Wijtschate) next to Messines. On going over the top Redmond, leading his men, was one of the first out of the trenches. He was hit by German defensive fire almost immediately in the wrist, and then further on in the leg, falling to the ground he urged his men on as they flowed forward about him towards the German line. Stretcher bearers from the 36th (Ulster) Division, one of them Private John Meeke of the 11th Inniskillings, who was himself wounded, brought him back into the British lines from No Man's Land, and he was conveyed to a Casualty Clearing Station at the Catholic Hospice at Locre (now Loker) in Dranoutre. Redmond died there from his wounds later that afternoon.
  Almost all the newspapers in Britain and Ireland, both local and national, reported his death. His wife and his brother John Redmond received over 400 messages of sympathy from all parts of the British Empire and beyond. Among the people who paid tribute to his memory were the Unionist MP Sir Edward Carson and the poet Francis Ledwidge. Major-General Hickie paid tribute to him that Redmond's "presence within the Division and his affection for it were a great asset to me". Lloyd George introduced the Irish Convention on 11 June quoting Redmond's sacrifice. The French Government posthumously awarded him the Legion of Honour.
  His death in battle made more international impact than the death of any other British soldier in the Great War, except for Lord Kitchener.
caption: Dublin Four Courts Plaque inscribed: In Memory of the Irish Barristers who fell in the Great War 1914–1918. The list includes the name of William Redmond
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