O'Hara, James

BORN HULL 1887. SCULCOATES. SON OF DANIEL O’HARA, AND MARIA GRADY. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1906. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A LABOURER. HE LIVED WITH HIS SISTER AT T9, SPENCER SQUARE, SPENCER STREET, HULL.

HE ENLISTED AT GRIMSBY. JOINED THE 2ND LINCOLNS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/09/1916, AGED 28. BURIED: Loos-en-Gohelle, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. COMMEMORATED ON THE LOOS MEMORIAL

HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, DANIEL. HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS SISTER, MARIA BORLAND, AT 12, CLINTON TERRACE, LORNE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 16TH APRIL 1915. *
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL AT ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH, JARRATT STREET, HULL.


First name:
JAMES
Military Number:
6919
Rank:
Private
Date Died
25/09/1916
Place died:
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
29
12, CLINTON TERRACE, LORNE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK