6th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Died:
13/01/1943 (Unknown)
Age:
22
Summary
William Alvin Hadden was the son of David Hadden. He was born about 1921. Lance Sergeant William Alvin Hadden was serving with the 6th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed Tunisia on 13th January 1943. The battalion diary from the attack gives ‘Special Mention’ to Fusilier Hadden – for sticking to a wounded man, although wounded himself, and eventually getting him back.
Further Information
William Alvin Hadden was the son of David Hadden. He was born about 1921.
Lance Sergeant William Alvin Hadden was serving with the 6th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill on 13th January 1943. Two Tree Hill is near Bou Arada, a small town in Tunisia.
The battalion diary from the attack gives ‘Special Mention’ to Fusilier Hadden – for sticking to a wounded man, although wounded himself, and eventually getting him back.
Lance Sergeant William Alvin Hadden has no known grave and is commemorated on Face 19 of the Medjez-el-Bab Memorial in Tunisia.
The CWGC record Lance Sergeant William Alvin Hadden as the son of Mr and Mrs David Hadden of Aughnacloy, County Tyrone.
