This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Massachusetts.

William Feeley was born on 20 May 1889 at Bandon in County Cork, Ireland. The use of different dates of birth and the commonality of his name and its variant spellings make it difficult to identify other family members but his enlistment papers indicate that his father lived in Timoleague, County Cork and that his sister, Catherine, lived and worked in Massachusetts.

He enlisted in Quebec on 28 January 1918 giving his date of birth as 20 May 1882 and indicating that he lived and worked in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He joined the 249^th Battalion and was allocated the number 1070090. The battalion sailed for England aboard RMS Saxonia, arriving on 4 March, and on its arrival was absorbed into the 15^th Reserve Battalion. Feeley served there until posted to France in early June with a reinforcement draft. After a period at the Canadian Base Depot, on 20 July he joined the details of 5^th Battalion (Western Cavalry), an infantry battalion in 2^nd Infantry Brigade, 1^st Canadian Division. The battalion came out of the line in the early hours of 21 July and the following day it was joined in its billets in Arras by the draft of reinforcements, which numbered 100 other ranks.

This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Massachusetts.

Albert Moore Downs (several records show his name as Albion) was born on 20 July 1873 in Maine, although he declared on his enlistment that he was born in Head Millstream, Kings County, New Brunswick. He was married with two daughters and prior to his enlistment he worked as a carpenter.^[1]

He enlisted in New Brunswick on 2 March 1917 and joined No. 16 Canadian Field Ambulance (536452 Private), which was being raised in Saint John. The unit sailed from Halifax on 28 March 1917 aboard the RMS Saxonia and arrived in England on 7 April 1917. It served in England with 5^th Canadian Division until the division was broken up in early 1918 and the medical personnel were despatched to the Canadian Army Medical Corps Depot at Shorncliffe. Downs was then posted to France to No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, where he arrived in April 1918.

This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Massachusetts.

Eugene Daly was born in Massachusetts on 14 June 1879, the eldest of the six children of an Irish immigrant father and a Canadian mother.^[1] After leaving school he worked as a painter before he enlisted on 4 May 1898 for service in the Spanish American War. He joined Company ‘A’, 9^th Massachusetts Infantry, and served in Cuba. The Regiment returned to the United States in August 1898 and Daly was discharged on 26 November. He then found work as a filing clerk before enlisting into the United States Army. He served two periods of enlistment from 12 October 1907 to 11 October 1910 and from October 1910 to 6 June 1912, when he was discharged ‘without honor’. The records indicate that his first period of service was with the Hospital Corps at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, and that the second was with Company ‘C’, 7^th Cavalry at Fort William McKinley in the Philippines. In March 1917 Daly was admitted to the recently opened National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Togus, Maine suffering from a range of ailments including chronic gastritis and chronic rheumatoid arthritis; he was discharged three months later.