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Moffatt Micheal J.

Monuments

ISOB Moffatt

 

Name:
Micheal J. Moffatt
Rank:
Private First Class
Serial Number:
1203399
Unit:
105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1918-10-18
State:
New York (Ireland)
Cemetery:
Kiltoghert Graveyard, Kiltoghert, County Leitrim, Ireland
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Micheal Moffatt was born on February 5, 1885 in County Roscommon, Ireland. Heserved in Company A, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division (New York National Guard). He was killed on October 18, 1918 during the 27th Infantry Division attack on the Hindenburg Line in the Somme.
Moffatt was born in Ireland and immigrated to New York in 1908 and enlisted in the Army in 1917. He was originally buried in the Somme-American Cemetery and returned to Ireland in 1921 to be buried in the family plot. A US Military gravestone was added in 2017 with the assistance of the local American Legion.

From website of Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's National Public Service,Tuesday, 6 Jun 2017:
Headstone unveiled for WW1 veteran in Leitrim
For almost 95 years, Michael J Moffatt, who was killed in WW1, has lain in an unmarked grave in Co Leitrim but at a ceremony in his honour on Sunday, a headstone was finally unveiled thanks to the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Born in Cootehall, Co Roscommon, Michael Moffatt fought with the United States army and was killed in action in France on 18 October, 1918.
His body was originally buried in the Somme American Military Cemetery but his remains were later repatriated to Ireland in 1922 and buried in the family plot in Kiltoghert, Co Leitrim.
The headstone was unveiled by Eamon Moffat at a ceremony which saw the American flag presented to his family and the sounding of The Last Post by a bugler.
Mr Noone, a US airforce veteran, said that in 1922 Michael was buried with little or no ceremony and definitely no honours rendered.
He said that no marker or headstone was erected to indicate that lying beneath was a gallant American soldier of the Great War but that has now been corrected.
Michael Moffatt was the fifth of 12 children of Peter and Eleanor Moffatt.
He emigrated to New York aged 23 and worked as a railroad conductor and later for Western Electric Company before he was drafted in August 1917.
He was part of Company "A", 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division of the US army and was killed less than a month before the Armistice was signed to end World War 1.