Hugh Brolly was the son of Hugh and Ellen Brolly. Hugh was born near Draperstown about 1877. The 1901 census does not list Hugh as living with family at house 6 in Cloughfin, Bancran, County Londonderry. His father was a farmer. Private Hugh Brolly was serving with the 12th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry when he died on Sunday 26th September 1915. He was 38 years old and married to Ellen Brolly. Private Brolly has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. The memorial stands in Dud Corner Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France.
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Hugh Brolly was the son of Hugh and Ellen Brolly. Hugh was born near Draperstown about 1877.
The 1901 census does not list Hugh as living with family at house 6 in Cloughfin, Bancran, County Londonderry. His father was a farmer.
The 1911 census does not list Hugh as living with family at house 14 in Cloughfin, Bancran Glebe, Londonderry.
Private Hugh Brolly was serving with the 12th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry when he died on Sunday 26th September 1915. He was 38 years old.
Private Brolly has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. The memorial stands in Dud Corner Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France.
It is believed Hugh is also commemorated on the family gravestone in St. Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Straw, Draperstown, Co. Derry.
The CWGC record Private Brolly as the son of Hugh and Ellen Brolly, of Cloughfin, Draperstown, Co. Londonderry and also as the husband of Ellen Brolly.
