Captain Joseph Edward Lynch.

10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Michael Palles Lynch (Barrister-at-Law), and Annie Josephine, his wife, of 4, Clifton Terrace, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Killed 25 September 1915. Aged 35. Commemorated on Panels 44 and 45, LOOS MEMORIAL.

The following notes are from Robert Coulson's Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Joseph Lynch was a barrister&rsquos son from Dublin and was born in the city in 1880.
He was educated at Clongowes Wood College followed by Trinity College in Dublin.
Joseph Lynch first served with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in India but contracted enteric fever and malaria and was invalided home.
At the onset of the war he offered his services again to the Army and was attached to the 10th Battalion of the Yorkshires in September of 1914 and was promoted from Lieutenant to Captain on April 3rd 1915.
He sailed with the 10th Battalion from Folkestone arriving in Boulogne on September 10th 1915. Very little time was spent in camp and the battalion were thrown straight into the Battle of Loos. After the small town of Loos had fallen late in the day of September 25th, Captain Lynch and the battalion moved up through Loos and then proceeded to dig in for the night. Captain Lynch and &ldquoD&rdquo company pushed on a little further and it was during this night advance that Joseph Lynch, already shot through the wrist, was killed in the early hours of September 26th 1915 at the age of 35. He had been in France just over a fortnight.
After his death &ldquoD&rdquo company withdrew to the battalion line.
After his death Joseph Lynch Senior received a letter from Captain Valentine Fowler describing the action in which his son had died and detailing the difficulties the burial parties had endured due to the continuous bombardment of the area around Hill 70."