Character Backgrounds

This section is dedicated to the backgrounds of the real people in our play that fought at the Batlle of Messines.

Four of the main characters in We Were Brothers are based on real soldiers;

Major Willie Redmond 

Captain Stephen Gwynn 

Private John Meeke and

Lt Col. Edmund Roche-Kelly 

The other soldiers are not based on actual individuals but were created from a composite of research, archive material and family records of the men of the North West who fought at Messines.