6th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
01/03/1896
Died:
08/10/1918 (Killed in Action)
Age:
22
Summary
Patrick Hagan was the son of James and Mary Hagan, of The Folly, Derrytresk, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone. He was born near Coalisland in 1896. The 1901 census records Patrick as age 6 living with the family at Derrytresk, Mountjoy, Tyrone. Patrick’s father was a farmer. By the 1911 census, Patrick Hagan was 15 years old. His father had died. He was still at school and living with the family at Derrytresk, Mountjoy, Tyrone. Private Patrick Hagan was with the 6th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on 8th October 1918.
Further Information
Patrick Hagan was the youngest son of James and Mary Hagan. Patrick Hagan and Mary McCann were married on 6th January 1876 in the district of Dungannon.
Patrick Hagan was born 1st March 1896. He was the youngest of at least eight children, all born in the Coalisland area.
Known family: James Hagan, Mary Hagan, Susan Hagan (born 2nd November 1876), Elizabeth J Hagan (born 1st January 1879), Michael Hagan (born 12th February 1881), Mary A Hagan (born 14th August 1883), Bridget Hagan (born 2nd May 1886), Edward James Hagan (born 9th December 1888), John Joseph Hagan (born 28th August 1893), Patrick Hagan (born 1st March 1896).
The 1901 census records Patrick as age 6 living with the family at Derrytresk, Mountjoy, Tyrone. Patrick’s father was a farmer.
By the 1911 census, Patrick Hagan was 15 years old. His father had died. He was still at school and living with the family at Derrytresk, Mountjoy, Tyrone.
Patrick Hagan enlisted in Omagh.
Private Patrick Hagan was serving with the 6th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action in France on 8th October 1918.
On 3rd October 1918, the 1st King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry captured Prospect Hill, after Le Catelet and Gouy had been taken by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 4th King's Royal Rifle Corps. The cemetery was made by the 50th Division and the 18th Field Ambulance immediately after. Plot I formed the original cemetery but this was increased after the Armistice when graves were brought in, mainly from the battlefields north of Gouy, and almost exclusively of men who died in October 1918.
In his will, Patrick left all to his mother.
Last Will and Testament of Private Patrick Hagan dated 24th June 1917:
In the event of my death, I give the whole of my property and effects to my mother, Mrs Mary Hagan, Derrytresk, Coalisland, County Tyrone. Private Patrick Hagan, 29279, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Private Hagan is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery near Gouy.
Private Patrick Hagan is commemorated locally on Dungannon War Memorial.
The CWGC record Private Patrick Hagan as the son of James and Mary Hagan of The Folly, Derrytresk, Coalisland, County Tyrone.
