Captain Henry Desmond O'Hara

Regiment: 1st Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Date published: 24/09/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 29/08/1915
Age at death: 23
Cemetery: Gibraltar (north Front) Cemetery, Gibraltar, United Kingdom
Plot: C. 3065.
Information: Captain Henry Desmond O'Hara D.S.O., 1st Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who will be remembered for the part he took in the memorable landing at Sedd-el-Bahr on April 25th last, when, though the junior officer, he took command of the remnant of his battalion, all the officers of which, with the exception of Captain (then Lieutenant) O'Hara, having been either killed or wounded, on which occasion his initiative and resource and the coolness and gallantry he displayed earned for him the D.S.O. and special mention in despatches, was wounded in action on August 12th last at the Dardanelles and died on the hospital ship Arcadian near Gibraltar on the 29th. The gallant young soldier was laid to rest in the cemetery at Gibraltar with full military honours. He was the only son of Mr. W. J. O'Hara, R.M., Oriel House, Ballincollig, Co. Cork.