Level Crossing Cemetery Fampoux
Pauline Priano has submitted the following:-
Bernard Gallogly was born in 1885 at Darlington, County Durham, one of 8 children, the youngest of 5 sons he had 2 elder and one younger sister. His father John Gallogly was born in County Leitrim, Ireland in 1847, his mother Maria McCabe born 1850 was a native of Darlington where they were married in 1869, setting up home at 16, Church Street, John was employed as an iron works labourer. They remained at Church Street for the next 30 plus years and as their children became older they too contributed to the family income, Honora (26) was employed as a general servant/domestic, Felix (24) as a bricklayer’s labourer, John (21) a printer and compositor, Daniel (17) a bricklayer and Bernard (16) a plumber, the eldest Catherine (30) assisted her mother, Mary (13) was a scholar.
By 1911 after 41 years of marriage John and Maria were living separately, he lived at 10, Paradise Row with his son Felix, his wife Margaret and their children Felix Jnr (6), Bernard (4) and Mary (1) still listed as married and working as a plasterer, whilst Maria, listed as a widow, and Bernard lived at 31, Branksome Terrace, Darlington with daughter/sister Mary Ellen, her husband, shunter Walter Leith and children Eleanor (2) and Daniel (1), Bernard now aged 26 years was employed as a plumber.
Bernard’s elder brother Daniel born in 1884 at Darlington, listed as a farm labourer, emigrated April 28th 1909 aged 25 years departing from the port of London bound for Brisbane Australia aboard the Perthshire. When war broke out in 1914 he enlisted at Toowoomba, July 24th 1915 assigned as service number 3342 to the 6th Field Coy Engineers, Australian Imperial Force. By March 8th 1916 he had risen through the ranks to Sergeant, wounded August 24th 1916, at Pozieres, he was evacuated via Calais to England for treatment at the Military Hospital, York. Once recovered he returned to Australia, August 28th 1917 where he was discharged, November 30th, unfit for further service. Recipient of the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Bernard enlisted at Darlington assigned as Sapper 164725 Royal Engineers. Attached to the 526th (1st Durham) Field Coy with the 4th Division, he departed for the Western Front as of January 1916, the main body of the company having left in September 1915. He would have been involved during 1916 on the Somme before moving to the Arras sector during 1917 and on the Ypres salient.
Sapper 164725 Bernard Gallogly was killed in action August 23rd 1917 in the Arras sector and interred at Level Crossing Cemetery, Fampoux, Pas de Ca;is, France, grave I. E. 9. He was 31 years old.
His sister Mary Ellen Leith, listed in error as Miss. M. Leith of 31 Branksome Terrace, Darlington on the headstone schedule, acted a go-between on behalf of her family. The family received all monies due to him and his awards of the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
1918 was a year of mixed joy and sadness, still grieving for the loss of Bernard, unlike his brother having survived the conflict of WW1 Daniel Gallogly was married January 16th 1918, at Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia to Mary Magdalene McMahon born at Toowoomba, March 25th 1884, however, later that year, November 30th 1918, John Gallogly died aged 71 years. Mary Galliogly nee McCabe died aged 72, September 18th 1922, both registered in the district of Darlington.
Daniel and Mary’s first born son Vincent John Gallogly was born at Toowoomba, Queensland, December 7th 1918. During WW2 he served as Flight Sergeant 404964 Royal Australian Air Force as part of bomber, fighter and reconnaissance in England. He died, listed as, “North Sea”, June 22nd 1942. His sacrifice is recorded as one of over 20,000 names inscribed on the Runnymede Memorial, Egham, Surrey, Part V. The memorial commemorates airmen and women who were lost in the Second World War during operations from bases in the United Kingdom and North and Western Europe who have no known grave.
Their daughter Kathleen Genevieve Gallogly born July 20th 1920 died aged 87 years June 9th 2008 and Felix Dermott Gallingly died aged 42, May 23rd 1967, deaths registered at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The death of Mary Magdelene Gallogly nee McMahon preceded that of her son Vincent, she died at Brisbane aged 56 years, September 20th 1940, Daniel Gallogly died in 1968 aged 84 years at Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
In God’s safe keeping. Rest In Peace.
