William Robert McCarragher
Memorial: Yate and District Heritage Centre: Chipping Sodbury Cottage Hospital Memorial Board
Regiment: Wiltshire Regiment
Medals: 1914 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Company Sergeant Major 5063
Parents: Sergeant Robert and Elizabeth Jane McCarragher
Home address: Hatters Lane, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Army
Date of birth: 1884
Place of birth: Devizes
Date of death: 31/01/1915
Buried/Commemorated at: Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age: 29
Further information:
William Robert McCarragher was born in 1884 in the barracks in Devizes. His parents were Elizabeth Jane and Sergeant Robert McCarragher. William's father had served in the South African Company when he died his mother remarried and became Elizabeth Bridle
William was married to Elizabeth Annie and they had a son called William and a daughter called Evelyn. They lived at Hatters Lane in Chipping Sodbury
William was a professional soldier he enlisted in London. He joined the 1st Battalion of the Duke of Edinburgh (Wiltshire Regiment) and became a Company Sergeant Major. He died in France on active service in January 1915 at the age of 29. He is buried in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery in Belgium. He was awarded the Victory, British, 14 Star and Clasp/2/2679 medals
William Robert McCarragher is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Chipping Sodbury.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Yate and District Heritage Centre