Captain Gerard Arthur O'Callaghan

Regiment: 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment
Date published: 30/07/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 25/05/1915
Age at death: 35
Cemetery: Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, Nord, France
Plot: I. E. 157.
Information: Captain Gerard Arthur O'Callaghan, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, who was killed by poisonous gas in France on the morning of May 25, entered the Service from Sandhurst, where he had been a Queen's Cadet in 1899. He served in the South African War, receiving the Queen's and King's Medals, with five clasps. He acted as Provost-Marshal to General (now Sir Horace) Smith-Dorrien, and also served with Dammant's Horse (“Rimington's Tigers”) during the latter part of that campaign. He was promoted Captain, and joined the Egyptian Army in 1907, and served in the Soudan with the rank of Bimbashi for seven years. The only son of Major-General Sir Desmond and the late Lady O'Callaghan, he was born at Shoeburyness in April, 1880, and in October, 1914, married Joan Mary, daughter of Mr. S.R. and Mrs. Grubb, of Castle Grace, Clogheen.