Is Finglas Man Soldier From Somme Movie?

Certainly looks compelling.
"His is one of the most famous faces of the first World War, captured fleetingly in a historic film of 1916. He was long thought to be English, the personification of the brave “Tommy”, and to have died later in the war.
But the mystery soldier carrying a wounded comrade through trenches at the Battle of the Somme may instead have been a Dubliner, from a family of Finglas Republicans, who later turned down a military pension, played GAA for a club he had helped found, and lived until 1982.
Now, 102 years after the events depicted, descendants of Charlie Brennan believe they are close to proving he is the man in the film. And the Imperial War Museum in London agrees they have a strong case, boosted by comparative analysis of the footage and a photograph of Brennan playing football for Erin’s Isle a few years later.
The past century has brought an estimated 100 different claims from people who think the trench man is an ancestor. But the Brennan family’s case in now in the top “two or three”, according to an IWM spokesman. It is hoped there may be fragments of evidence somewhere that may yet clinch the argument...
...Technical analysis of the 1923 GAA photograph has supported the case for Brennan as the man in the film. The analysis couldn’t prove this in the positive, but it would have exposed any major anomalies in facial characteristics. No such anomaly was found.
The head of the IWM’s film archive, Matthew Lee, is used to encountering certainty from relatives attributing heroism to ancestors. But Brennan’s case goes well beyond “family mythology”, he agrees, and makes him “a very strong candidate”, in the “top two or three” ."
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