Lance Corporal Hugh Darragh

 

Number: 26206

Company: 60th (North Irish Horse) Company (Belfast) (New), 17th Battalion

ENLISTMENT

Date: 11 February 1901

Place: Belfast

Age: 20 years 1 month

Trade of calling: Postman/ post office clerk

Place of birth: In the Parish of Shankill, in or near the Town of Belfast, in the County of Antrim.

Family: Single. Father James Darragh, labourer, mother Margaret (nee Sneddin). Sister Mary Jane (elder), 193 Tennent Street, Belfast; brother George (elder), 18 Cochrane Street, Liverpool.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 4 1/2". Complexion fresh, eyes grey, hair dark.

Religion: Church of England

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 12 March 1901

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal and 1901 clasps.

DEATH

Date: 27 December 1901

Place: No.11 Stationary Hospital, Winburg

Cause: Enteric fever

Buried/ commemorated:Winburg Old Cemetery/ Winburg Garden of Remembrance.


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