Anthony Arthur Weldon

Lt-Col. H.W. Weldon

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Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Weldon
2nd Bn., Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)

The Regiment has unfortunately lost some most valuable officers … all of whom had done splendid work, which would have brought recognition had they been fortunate enough to survive.

(Weldon to Maj. Gen. Prior in Whitton, The History of the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, vol. 2, 174)

Born in Dublin on 2 November 1878, Henry Walter Weldon was commissioned a lieutenant in 1900 and served in South Africa. He was adjutant for the 1st Leinsters and temporarily took command after Second Ypres following the death of Lieutenant-Colonel C. Conyers on 12 May 1915. He served with the battalion now under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel J.D. Mather on the Salonika front in 1916.

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Lt-Col. A.A. Weldon

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Lieutenant-Colonel A.A. Weldon
4th Bn., Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
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I think myself, the later rebellion ill judged and ill advised as it was, has opened the eyes of the people to the dangers of carrying arms which should never have been allowed … At the same time, I think out of ill may come some good as some measure of local government will be devised with the wish of the whole country which will bring peace to this unhappy country in the future.

(Lt. Col. A.A. Weldon in Freeman’s Journal, 3 August 1916, 6)

Born on 1 March 1863 in London, Sir Anthony Arthur Weldon, had been commissioned in the Leinster Regiment in 1885 and served in the Natal Field Force during the Boer War. He was aide-de-camp to Commander-in-Chief of the Forces Lord Wolseley from 1895 to 1900. On the death of his father in January 1900, Weldon became the 6th Barnonet of Dunmore. Since 1908, he was commanding officer of the 4th Leinsters.

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