Casualty of the Great War, Serjeant Boxold, Service No.6446521,served with the 1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers.
(Civil Registration:Births Sep 1886
Boxold Frederick Edwin J E. Preston 2b 371
(The index to the registered Deaths in Ireland, as noted in the GRO in Dublin, notes that the death of Frederick Boxold was registered in the quarter January-March 1921, and that he was born in 1886.John O'Grady-September 2010)
Millstreet Train Ambush
1921 Feb 11. Fourteen Royal Fusiliers were coming back after dark by the evening train from Mallow. They were mostly Courts-Martial witnesses returning from Buttevant. In a cutting between Rathcool and Millstreet the train was stopped by the rebels by pre-arranged signal to the engine. Fire was poured into the leading coach where the troops were. 2 of the soldiers died and 6 were wounded
The inquiry found that
•The IRA mounted a well planned operation which had to wait till they got the right train on the right day
•The Royal Fusiliers had an officer and 4 armed soldiers on the train. These included L/Sgt Maxfield,
•There were a further 10 armed soldiers from Cork, who joined the train at Mallow
•The train driver was Daniel Lynch of Railway Terrace, Tralee. The fireman Maurice Hogan of 14 Dispensery Lane, Bohere,Tralee
•2 IRA men took over control of the engine in Mallow
•They stopped the train a mile and a half east of Millstreet Station, where the ambush group was waiting
•They comprised 8 rifemen to fire at the carriage with the troops, and 2 rifes and 2 shotguns to cover the guards van
•The Royal Fusiliers at some point decided that further resistence was useless and surrendered. This is stated by Sgt Maxfield in the inquiry, but is not mentioned otherwise!
•The IRA carried off all the soldiers rifles and equipment
•The R Fusilier officer (Clarke) does not make a statement at the inquiry
•The IRA say that the soldier who was taken to the top of the embankment was an unarmed Munster Fusilier in uniform, who was not with the Royal Fusiliers. He went to offer to join the IRA, but they were suspicious and put him back on the train. They say he later joined the IRA in Kerry
•Private Holyome died of wound
•Sgt F Boxold died at the scene of the ambush
Wounded
•Lieut C H W Clarke MBE - Clarke later got his MBE for his actions at the Headford Ambush on the 21 Mar 1920
•6446360 Sgt S Sutton BEM - BEM for his actions at The Grange 8.11.20
•6446469 L-Sgt J Maxfield
•6446562 Cpl G King
•6446432 Pte A Hodge
•6446263 Pte E Lloyd
In the group, unwounded, included
•Cpl J Stark RASC (attached to 1 Royal Fusiliers)
•L/Cpl A Buzzell
(Civil Registration:Births Sep 1886
Boxold Frederick Edwin J E. Preston 2b 371
(The index to the registered Deaths in Ireland, as noted in the GRO in Dublin, notes that the death of Frederick Boxold was registered in the quarter January-March 1921, and that he was born in 1886.John O'Grady-September 2010)
Millstreet Train Ambush
1921 Feb 11. Fourteen Royal Fusiliers were coming back after dark by the evening train from Mallow. They were mostly Courts-Martial witnesses returning from Buttevant. In a cutting between Rathcool and Millstreet the train was stopped by the rebels by pre-arranged signal to the engine. Fire was poured into the leading coach where the troops were. 2 of the soldiers died and 6 were wounded
The inquiry found that
•The IRA mounted a well planned operation which had to wait till they got the right train on the right day
•The Royal Fusiliers had an officer and 4 armed soldiers on the train. These included L/Sgt Maxfield,
•There were a further 10 armed soldiers from Cork, who joined the train at Mallow
•The train driver was Daniel Lynch of Railway Terrace, Tralee. The fireman Maurice Hogan of 14 Dispensery Lane, Bohere,Tralee
•2 IRA men took over control of the engine in Mallow
•They stopped the train a mile and a half east of Millstreet Station, where the ambush group was waiting
•They comprised 8 rifemen to fire at the carriage with the troops, and 2 rifes and 2 shotguns to cover the guards van
•The Royal Fusiliers at some point decided that further resistence was useless and surrendered. This is stated by Sgt Maxfield in the inquiry, but is not mentioned otherwise!
•The IRA carried off all the soldiers rifles and equipment
•The R Fusilier officer (Clarke) does not make a statement at the inquiry
•The IRA say that the soldier who was taken to the top of the embankment was an unarmed Munster Fusilier in uniform, who was not with the Royal Fusiliers. He went to offer to join the IRA, but they were suspicious and put him back on the train. They say he later joined the IRA in Kerry
•Private Holyome died of wound
•Sgt F Boxold died at the scene of the ambush
Wounded
•Lieut C H W Clarke MBE - Clarke later got his MBE for his actions at the Headford Ambush on the 21 Mar 1920
•6446360 Sgt S Sutton BEM - BEM for his actions at The Grange 8.11.20
•6446469 L-Sgt J Maxfield
•6446562 Cpl G King
•6446432 Pte A Hodge
•6446263 Pte E Lloyd
In the group, unwounded, included
•Cpl J Stark RASC (attached to 1 Royal Fusiliers)
•L/Cpl A Buzzell
Casualty of the Great War, Serjeant Boxold, Service No.6446521,served with the 1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers.
(Civil Registration:Births Sep 1886
Boxold Frederick Edwin J E. Preston 2b 371
(The index to the registered Deaths in Ireland, as noted in the GRO in Dublin, notes that the death of Frederick Boxold was registered in the quarter January-March 1921, and that he was born in 1886.John O'Grady-September 2010)
Millstreet Train Ambush
1921 Feb 11. Fourteen Royal Fusiliers were coming back after dark by the evening train from Mallow. They were mostly Courts-Martial witnesses returning from Buttevant. In a cutting between Rathcool and Millstreet the train was stopped by the rebels by pre-arranged signal to the engine. Fire was poured into the leading coach where the troops were. 2 of the soldiers died and 6 were wounded
The inquiry found that
•The IRA mounted a well planned operation which had to wait till they got the right train on the right day
•The Royal Fusiliers had an officer and 4 armed soldiers on the train. These included L/Sgt Maxfield,
•There were a further 10 armed soldiers from Cork, who joined the train at Mallow
•The train driver was Daniel Lynch of Railway Terrace, Tralee. The fireman Maurice Hogan of 14 Dispensery Lane, Bohere,Tralee
•2 IRA men took over control of the engine in Mallow
•They stopped the train a mile and a half east of Millstreet Station, where the ambush group was waiting
•They comprised 8 rifemen to fire at the carriage with the troops, and 2 rifes and 2 shotguns to cover the guards van
•The Royal Fusiliers at some point decided that further resistence was useless and surrendered. This is stated by Sgt Maxfield in the inquiry, but is not mentioned otherwise!
•The IRA carried off all the soldiers rifles and equipment
•The R Fusilier officer (Clarke) does not make a statement at the inquiry
•The IRA say that the soldier who was taken to the top of the embankment was an unarmed Munster Fusilier in uniform, who was not with the Royal Fusiliers. He went to offer to join the IRA, but they were suspicious and put him back on the train. They say he later joined the IRA in Kerry
•Private Holyome died of wound
•Sgt F Boxold died at the scene of the ambush
Wounded
•Lieut C H W Clarke MBE - Clarke later got his MBE for his actions at the Headford Ambush on the 21 Mar 1920
•6446360 Sgt S Sutton BEM - BEM for his actions at The Grange 8.11.20
•6446469 L-Sgt J Maxfield
•6446562 Cpl G King
•6446432 Pte A Hodge
•6446263 Pte E Lloyd
In the group, unwounded, included
•Cpl J Stark RASC (attached to 1 Royal Fusiliers)
•L/Cpl A Buzzell
(Civil Registration:Births Sep 1886
Boxold Frederick Edwin J E. Preston 2b 371
(The index to the registered Deaths in Ireland, as noted in the GRO in Dublin, notes that the death of Frederick Boxold was registered in the quarter January-March 1921, and that he was born in 1886.John O'Grady-September 2010)
Millstreet Train Ambush
1921 Feb 11. Fourteen Royal Fusiliers were coming back after dark by the evening train from Mallow. They were mostly Courts-Martial witnesses returning from Buttevant. In a cutting between Rathcool and Millstreet the train was stopped by the rebels by pre-arranged signal to the engine. Fire was poured into the leading coach where the troops were. 2 of the soldiers died and 6 were wounded
The inquiry found that
•The IRA mounted a well planned operation which had to wait till they got the right train on the right day
•The Royal Fusiliers had an officer and 4 armed soldiers on the train. These included L/Sgt Maxfield,
•There were a further 10 armed soldiers from Cork, who joined the train at Mallow
•The train driver was Daniel Lynch of Railway Terrace, Tralee. The fireman Maurice Hogan of 14 Dispensery Lane, Bohere,Tralee
•2 IRA men took over control of the engine in Mallow
•They stopped the train a mile and a half east of Millstreet Station, where the ambush group was waiting
•They comprised 8 rifemen to fire at the carriage with the troops, and 2 rifes and 2 shotguns to cover the guards van
•The Royal Fusiliers at some point decided that further resistence was useless and surrendered. This is stated by Sgt Maxfield in the inquiry, but is not mentioned otherwise!
•The IRA carried off all the soldiers rifles and equipment
•The R Fusilier officer (Clarke) does not make a statement at the inquiry
•The IRA say that the soldier who was taken to the top of the embankment was an unarmed Munster Fusilier in uniform, who was not with the Royal Fusiliers. He went to offer to join the IRA, but they were suspicious and put him back on the train. They say he later joined the IRA in Kerry
•Private Holyome died of wound
•Sgt F Boxold died at the scene of the ambush
Wounded
•Lieut C H W Clarke MBE - Clarke later got his MBE for his actions at the Headford Ambush on the 21 Mar 1920
•6446360 Sgt S Sutton BEM - BEM for his actions at The Grange 8.11.20
•6446469 L-Sgt J Maxfield
•6446562 Cpl G King
•6446432 Pte A Hodge
•6446263 Pte E Lloyd
In the group, unwounded, included
•Cpl J Stark RASC (attached to 1 Royal Fusiliers)
•L/Cpl A Buzzell
Gravesite Details
The inscription error in his name was reported to the CWGC in 2006, and in March 2011, it is reported that the inscription has been corrected.
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