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World War I (1914-1918)

Thomas Patrick Gallagher was born in Niskayuna, New York, on December 6, 1889. He was working as a bookkeeper in 1910 at a brewery in Schenectady County. Before entering the military, he was living in New Jersey.

Thomas enlisted in the United States Army. He was a corporal serving with the 311th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division. On October 26, 1918, Robert was killed in battle during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He is buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France.

Sources: Find A Grave, Ancestry


 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

 

For the Fallen

Laurence Binyon