204643. (Po) Ldg Boatman Edward Huxford, HM Coastguard

Local guesthouse owners Josephine & Greg White-Yule who Cleggan Farm Cottages. Englishman Greg with the help of other locals, finally managed to locate the overgrown site and got the photo of this lost CWGC headstone along with a GPS

1884 Jan 28 Born Templecaran, County Antrim

1901 census on the HMS Niobe as a Boy 1st Class

1909 Married to Catherine Amy Parham at Portsmouth

1911 census his wife is alone at 70 Winchester Road, Landport, Portsmouth

At HM Coastguard Station Cleggan. Cleggan is a rather remote Atlantic inlet north of Clifden, Galway

1919 Feb 12. Died from illness. Wife: Catherine 99 Priory Po Harway Gropert Kent

Buried   Cleggan Churchyard, Country Galway, Ireland

 

British soldiers died in Ireland