BORN HULL 23/09/1886. SON OF JOHN O’HARA (1844-1887) AND MARY ANN MELODY (1856-1915), OF 12 CLIFTON TERRACE, LORNE STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS FROM SLIGO, IRELAND. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN YORK. HE HAD FOURS SISTERS AND ONE BROTHER, DANIEL.
HE MARRIED IN HULL, IN 1906. HIS WIFE, MARY McLOUGHLIN (1883-1962) AND FIVE CHILDREN, LIVED AT 5 WILLIAM’S TERRACE, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL AND 21 WORSLEY STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A BRICKLAYER LABOURER, FOR MR PANTON, BEFORE THE WAR.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. LEFT ENGLAND ON 14/07/1915. KILLED AT GALLIPOLI, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 28. HE WAS MISSING FOR TWELVE MONTHS. HIS DEATH WAS CONFIRMED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 14/08/1916. *
HE LEFT A WIDOW AND FIVE YOUNG CHILDREN, THE ELDEST BEING TWELVE YEARS OLD.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST CHARLES’ BORROMEO CHURCH WW1 MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL.
HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 13TH OCTOBER 1915, AND THE HULL TIMES, ON 9TH OCTOBER 1915. *
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING AT THE DARDENELLES, TURKEY.
