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Pte. Alexander O'Brien

British Army 1st Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment

from:Hebburn

(d.12th Oct 1916)

Alexander O'Brien enlisted in 1914 at Jarrow in the 1st Battalion the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales Own). He was killed in action on the 12th October 1916 and is remembered on the Palmer Cenotaph together with Thiepval Memorial His unit was part of the 6th Division so it is probable that he was killed during the Battle of Le Transloy (1st to 18th October 1916) in the latter stages of the First Somme Offensive.

Alexander was the younger son of John O'Brien (deceased) and Jane O'Brien of 148 William Street, Hebburn. In the 1911 census he was living at home with his widowed mother, his older brother John, his older sister Helena and her husband James McAtominey. Alexander was 21, single and worked as a Labourer in the shipbuilding Industry.



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