SOLDIERS IN OTHER REGIMENTS

Private Thomas Hagan, 2527

Private Thomas Hagan, 2527
7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

Newspaper obituary:

"Private T. Hagan, West Riding Regiment, of 37 Miners Street, Oldham, died on Friday last in hospital at Colchester from gas poisoning and bayonet wounds received in action two days previously. He was buried with full military honours on Monday at Colchester Cemetery. The body was conveyed on a gun carriage from the hospital to the cemetery, and a firing party fired over the grave. Four members of his family and his finance were present at the interment. Hagan was 22 years of age and had been in the West Riding Territorials for two years. He was a single man and before the war worked as a moulder at Messrs Platt Bros and Co.'s New Works."

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He was buried in the Cemetery at Colchester.

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