Ref ID: 4848
Name
Joseph Hanley.
Description
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Certificate relating to Rifleman Joseph Hanley.
Life Story
Name: Joseph Hanley.
Service Number: 7818.
Rank: Rifleman.
Battalion: 2nd Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles.
Born: 27th April 1887, Armagh.
Died: 21st September 1914.
Address: 126 Disraeli Street, Belfast
.
Joseph Hanley, son of Samuel and Mary Hanley, lived at 126 Disraeli Street, Greater Shankill, Belfast
.
He was a member of the Onward Temperance Loyal Orange Lodge
.
Joseph joined the Royal Irish Rifles.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on 13th August 1914.
Joseph was a Rifleman in 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles when he Died Of Wounds, received in the Battle Aisne, within Buffon Hospital Paris, France aged 27 years
.
A local newspaper states.
ULSTER CASUALTIES.
Information has been received that Private Joseph Hanley 26 Disraeli Street, Belfast, has died from wounds in the Buffon Hospital Paris
.
Josephs Soldiers Effects were left to his mother, brothers William, James, George and sister Elizabeth.
A Dependant Pension Application Form shows his mother as claimant, and also that she lived at 59 Mossvale Street, Belfast when she applied
.
Joseph received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star
.
He is Remembered at City of Paris Cemetery, France.
To Remember Is To Honour
.
Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
0
Classification
Book or Journal,
Certificate/Permit,
Roll of Honour or Memorial
