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Terence McCullagh was a regular soldier, having served the Colours for twenty-one years at the time of his death, and was a Private in the East Yorkshire Regiment. His surname is spelt variously as McCullagh and McCullough. A search of records of service prior to WWI showed that T McCullagh was awarded medals for his service during the Boer War while serving in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
In Dec 1914, signing his name as Terrance McCullagh, he married Mary Elizabeth Nicholson, a widow living in Walkergate, Beverley, and very shortly afterwards went to the front in France. After only eight weeks at the front he received a gunshot wound in the head and was apparently repatriated as he is reported to have died of his wounds in a London hospital on 16 May, 1915 aged 39 years.
Commonwealth War Grave Commission records, under the name of Terence McCullough, show him as being born in Dublin, the son of Patrick and Mary McCullough; husband of Mary E. McCullough, of 95 Walkergate, Beverley, and he is commemorated in the Kensal Green (St Mary's) Roman Catholic Cemetery in London.
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