TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF A BRAVE IRISH SOLDIER—NUNS AT THE GRAVESIDE OF MAJOR WILLIE REDMOND, M.P. Father Kelly, the Irish priest, writing from the front, thus describes the death of Major Redmond: “At ten minutes past three o’clock on the morning of the 7th the mines went up, and before the burning earth had time to descend Major W. K. Redmond, M.P., and founder of the -th Irish Division, was over the top—the first man in the division to face what to us looked something like an overflow of hell itself. The poor major fell wounded in the leg and wrist and was found lying on the field by the stretcher bearers of the Ulster Division. They brought him to their aid post and thence to the field ambulance, and there he died. He received every possible kindness from these Ulster soldiers. No purer-hearted man, no braver soldier ever died on the battlefield. He was absolutely convinced that he was dying for Ireland.”

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1430, 20 September 1917, Page 9

TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF A BRAVE IRISH SOLDIER—NUNS AT THE GRAVESIDE OF MAJOR WILLIE REDMOND, M.P. Father Kelly, the Irish priest, writing from the front, thus describes the death of Major Redmond: “At ten minutes past three o’clock on the morning of the 7th the mines went up, and before the burning earth had time to descend Major W. K. Redmond, M.P., and founder of the -th Irish Division, was over the top—the first man in the division to face what to us looked something like an overflow of hell itself. The poor major fell wounded in the leg and wrist and was found lying on the field by the stretcher bearers of the Ulster Division. They brought him to their aid post and thence to the field ambulance, and there he died. He received every possible kindness from these Ulster soldiers. No purer-hearted man, no braver soldier ever died on the battlefield. He was absolutely convinced that he was dying for Ireland.”