Lieutenant Henry Gallagher

Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Date published: 29/09/1916
Killed in action: No
Information: Lieutenant Henry Gallagher, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, has been awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous gallantry in action. When other officers became casualties he took command and led on his men with great dash. Seeing the enemy firing on our wounded, he got into a shell hole with a private, and shot six enemy snipers with a rifle. Finally he volunteered and, with twenty men, rescued 28 wounded men under very heavy fire.