William Archer Redmond DSO (16 October 1886 – 17 April 1932) was an Irish nationalist politician. He served as an MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as well as a Teachta Dála (TD) of Dáil Éireann. He was one of the few people to have served in both the House of Commons and in the Oireachtas. During World War I, he served in the British Army as an officer with an Irish regiment on the Western Front. He was the son of John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918, and was one of a dynasty of Liberal and Irish Nationalist politicians who are commemorated in Redmond Square in Wexford town. Early and personal life William Archer Redmond was born on 16 October 1886 in London, the only son of three children of John Redmond and his wife Johanna. Redmond was educated at Clongowes Wood College and Trinity College Dublin. On 18 November 1930, he married Bridget Mallick of the Curragh, County Kildare. They had no children. Parliamentary and military career He was elected as MP for Tyrone East at the December 1910 general election and supported the passing of the 1914 Home Rule Act. When his father called for support for the British and Allied war effort in World War I, Redmond joined the National Volunteers in the New British Army and served on the Western Front for the duration of the war, first in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and then in the Irish Guards, rose to the rank of captain and was awarded the DSO. His fellow MP and uncle Willie Redmond, John's brother, also joined up and was killed in 1917. Three other Irish Nationalist MPs also served, J. L. Esmonde, Stephen Gwynn, D. D. Sheehan and former MP Tom Kettle. When his father died in March 1918, William Archer Redmond resigned his Tyrone seat and successfully defended his father's seat of Waterford at the subsequent by-election. Famously he campaigned in his army uniform and wearing a black armband. His victory ended a run of Sinn Féin victories at by-elections and gave a big, albeit temporary, boost to the morale of supporters of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He did not take part in the First Dáil. In the general election of December 1918, he was re-elected for Waterford City, becoming one of only