Ref ID: 4852
Name
C.W.G.C Register of Name And Memorial Index.
Description
C.W.G.C Register of Names And Memorial Index relating to Rifleman Joseph Hanley and City of Paris Cemetery, France.
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
