BORN HULL 1877. ONLY SON OF MICHAEL McGANN & SELINA HALEY, OF 25, KINGSTON TERRACE, NORTH STREET, HULL. HE WAS A FORMER SOLDIER, WORING AS A DOCK LABOURER.
HE JOINED THE COLOURS WHEN WAR BEGAN, ENLISTING IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 20/01/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 39. HE LEFT A WIDOW AND THREE CHILDREN.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 10/08/1916. *
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL.
First name:
JOHN
Regiment:
Military Number:
3/6531
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
09/08/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
39
25 KINGSTON TERRACE, NORTH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
