James Gaughan

La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie, Somme, France

James Gaughan

Private No. 14403   7th (Service) Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.

Died of Wounds in France (Battle of the Somme) 15 July 1916. Age 32.

Buried in La-Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie, Somme, France. I.C.5.

Born in Whitchurch in 1884.

Third son of the Patrick and Ellen Gaughan of 33, Newtown Street, Whitchurch.

The research suggests the Gaughans had 8 children.

The eldest John appears to have died as a child aged 3; this makes Mary Ellen, the eldest surviving sibling.

Both parents were dead by the time James died, so Mary Ellen would be his legatee as eldest surviving sibling

James worked as a House Painter before enlisting in 1915.

John Gaughan was listed as serving by October 1914.

James was the brother of Patrick Gaughan, who was also killed in action in 1917.

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