BORN STANTON, CO DURHAM 1884. ENLISTED HULL. EX BLUNDELLS WORKER. SON OF BRIDGET & THE LATE JOHN EGAN, MIDDLESBROUGH. KILLED IN ACTION 13/11/1916. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER AND BROTHER JAMES.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE THOMAS EGAN 12/457. Born in 1883 in Stranton, County Durham. Thomas was one of six children to John and Bridget Egan of 31 Edith Street, Middlesbrough. A Labourer by trade he enlisted at Hull City Hall on 19th September 1914 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. While serving in Egypt Thomas upset the army authorities enough for them to fine him and sentence him to 21 days Field Punishment No.1, which in the desert heat must have been a severe test of his endurance. Wounded in the chest on the Somme in July 1916 he spent a couple of months recuperating in hospital before rejoining the battalion in mid-September. Thomas Egan was killed in action on 13th November 1916 at Serre and his body never recovered; his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing- he was 33 years old.
Egan, Thomas
First name:
THOMAS
Military Number:
12/457
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
33
