James Fagan

Rank:	Private
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Townland:	Drumanure
Town/Village:	Abbeyshrule
Civil Parish:	Abbeyshrule
Catholic Parish:	Carrickedmond
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Alternative Address:
Census 1901:	Resident at Drumanure www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Longford/Aghana/Drumanure/1546353/
Census 1911:
Regiment/Unit:	Leinster Regiment, 1st Battalion & 3rd Battalion
Regiment Number:	3384
Date of Death:	17-10-1918
Cause:	Died of pneumonia at Cairo, Egypt
Memorial:	Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt
Information:	James was born on or around the 21 Mar 1887 in Drumanure and was baptised in Carrickedmond on the 27 March 1887; he was one of approximately 9 children. His father, also called James, was a gamekeeper. Pte Fagan enlisted in Birr, King's County (Co. Offaly) and entered the war in France in July 1915. James died close to the end of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, which lasted from 1915 to up to the Armistice of Mudros with the Ottoman Empire on 30 October 1918. James's cause of death is listed on his mother's Dependents Pension index as pneumonia.
Parents Names:	Son of James Fagan and Ellen (née Moran), of Drumanure, Abbeyshrule.
Notes:	James enlisted at Birr, Co. Offaly, then known as King's County.
Links:	link to CWGC entry; link to will / link to Civil Record of Birth; Dependents Pension index (Fold3.com, subscription website)

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