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Private Thomas Frederick Gargan

Number: 9610

Company: 45th (Dublin) Company, 13th Battalion

ENLISTMENT

Date: 8 January 1900

Place: Newbridge

Age: 34 years 4 months

Trade or calling: Gentleman

Place of birth: Parish Stamullen, Town Drogheda, County Meath

Family:

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 10 1/2". Complexion dark, eyes brown, hair dark.

Religion: Roman Catholic

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 14 March 1900

Service medal, clasps and other awards: South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State.

DEATH

Date: 22 May 1900

Place: Bloemfontein

Cause: Dysentery/ heart failure

Buried/ commemorated: Bloemfontein (President Brand) Cemetery and Memorial, Yeomanry Kop Memorial, and St Patrick's Cathedral Memorial.

 

On 30 June 1900 the Lurgan Mail published a letter from Private John Hamilton Sinclair, who reported that:

When a man goes sick he is told that he is only scheming and must get up and do his work. A poor chap called Gargan was found dead in his tent this morning. He had been very ill with dysentery for about a fortnight, and yesterday he was sent out as a mounted orderly, and it was too much for him. We found him dead at about half-past six, and he is to be buried at half-past one to-day.

This page last updated 5 June 2024.