Name
Thomas Michael Horgan
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/08/1914
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
8255
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ESNES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
I.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Edmunds College Memorial, Old Hall Green
Biography
The following text was transcribed from the The Edmundian
(1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College:
Thomas Michael Horgan, the brother of the Rev. William Morgan, was the first Edmundian to give his life for the country in this war. He was a student at St. Edmund's for two or three years, leaving the College when in "Grammar" about Easter 1899, at the age of seventeen years.
He went to the front as a non-commissioned officer in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers early in the war, arriving in France on Aug. 23. He was killed in action there days later, when the regiment came in contact with the enemy for the first time. The death was reported from the base on Sept. 12, but, as far as can be ascertained, he was killed on Aug. 20, at Estnes, near Mons.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Di Vanderson, The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College
