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12443 Rifleman Hugh Tate
8th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
7th June 1917
Born in Donaghadee Co. Down in 1887.
In 1909 he married Sarah Jane Atkinson.
In the 1911 Irish census,they are recorded as
living at 25 Chamberlain Street Belfast.
Hugh was employed as a shipyard labourer and Sarah was employed as a twister in a rope works.
He enlisted in Belfast and his dis-embakation into France was on 04-10-1915.
He was killed in action on 07-06-1917.
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