Gallagher, Patrick

BORN YORK 1877. HULL PAL. SON OF WILLIAM & MARY GALLAGHER ABOVE. SHORT STREET WAS NEAR THE BUS STATION & IS NOW DEMOLISHED.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE PATRICK GALLAGHER 14/28. Born in 1877 in York, Patrick was one of six children to William and Mary Gallagher of 5 Cottage Place, Moxam Street, Hull. A Labourer by trade, he attested on 16th October 1915 originally joining the 14th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment before being transferred to the 11th upon his posting to France in late May 1916. He was wounded during the last attack of that summer’s Somme campaign, receiving a compound fracture of his ribs and left fibula, and was evacuated from the front line to the hospital centre at Le Treport. There must have been complications. Perhaps his rib punctured a lung and this remained undiagnosed amid the chaos of hospital tents after an attack; perhaps his wounds were more than stated on the records; perhaps he developed an infection or gangrene; we’ll never know, but Patrick died of those wounds on 21st November 1916 and is buried at Mont Huon Military Cemetery; he was 39 years old.