The 12th Royal Irish Rifles

Ballymoney Heroes is the website dedicated to men from the Ballymoney area of Co. Antrim who fell in the Great War.

It is strongly based on the work of Mr. Robert Thompson whose research of local war memorials in the northern towns of the county has been an inspiration to many people.

Here you will find details of many men who served with the 12th Royal Irish Rifles.

http://www.ballymoneyheroes.co.uk/

The man above is Rifleman Robert John Coleman, 12th Royal Irish Rifles, killed in action 1st July 1916 aged 21. No known grave. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. On this website, you can read his story and reflect on the impact the war had on this small Ulster town.