Service Details
Name:
HARTIGAN
Given Name:
JOHN WYNDHAM
Initials:
J W
Service No:
66153
Rank:
Captain
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Regiment:
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
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Unit:
2/5th Bn.
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Date of Death:
1940-05-26
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Date of Birth:
1915-05-01
Age:
25
Cause of Death:
Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of Marcus Michael and Eileen Hartigan, of Battle, Sussex. The only son of Lieut. Colonel M. M. Hartigan, Secretary of the 1820 Memorial Settler's Association in London, Captain Hartigan was born at Grahamstown, South Africa in May, 1915. He was educated at Cheltenham where he got his colours for Rugby football, and was an under-officer in the College O.T.C. He obtained the Headmaster's nomination from Cheltenham to Sandhurst, where he again became an under-officer. At the age of 20 he received a commission in the Sherwood Foresters. He was a keen and intelligent soldier, who would most certainly have attained high rank in the Army. In athletics he excelled, being an exceptionally fine fencer and a good boxer. As a Rugby footballer he played for the Aldershot Command, as well as for the London Irish.
Commemoration
Country:
France
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Locality:
Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
OIGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
Row B. Grave 8.

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