Eurell family photograph - believed taken at time of Patrick Eurell discharge from 59th regiment of foot taken sometime in 1888. In the photo are Elizabeth Rider nee Ryan, nee Hoath, nee Eurell she is wearing a brooch of the 59th regiment. Patrick Eurell is seated wearing the Afghan campaign medal of 1879. Also in the photo are Elizabeths eldest daughter Terea Ryan, Martin Hoath, Christopher Eurell seated and Esther in lap of elizabeth.

Your ggrandad was born at Athlone Ireland around 1879.
His dad was also Martin HOATH a soldier of the 95th Regiment of foot who was born at Galway and came to England at the time of the famine and lived in Bolton, Lancashire.
He joined the army when he was 18 at Bolton and served in India. He died around 1880 after discharge from the army due to a medical condition.
His Mother was Mary O'Har and James Hoath both born in Ireland.
He married Elizabeth Ryder of Gosport Hampshire in 1877 at Cork Ireland.
In 1881 the young Martin was with his mother in Gosport and she was a widow.
She remarried to Patrick Eurell a soldier of the 59th regiment. This was the family he grew up in. Children were Teresa, Martin, Christopher, Esther.
The family was on the establishment of the Battalion so travelled around as the battalion moved from location to location.
Patrick retired from the army in 1888 after 22 years service 19 of which were served in India Ceylon and Afghanistan where he was awarded a Campaign medal at the battle of Ahmed Kahl in the second Afghan war 1879.
After discharge the family came to the Manchester area and saw out their days there.
Martin married Mary Elizabeth Kirby and they had 5 children. Martin, Catherine, Sarah Anne, Mary, Christopher.
When war was declared in 1914 Martin joined up in the 11th Battalion of the Manchester regiment. He was in the landing at Suvla Bay at the Dardenelles
He survived the Dardenelles and went to Egypt after the evacuation .
In 1916 the regiment which was part of the 11th Division was shipped to France where the battle of the Somme was raging. He was reported missing believed killed on 29th August 1916 in Delville Wood.
At the time of his death he was serving with the 21st Battalion so somewhere along the line he was transferred from the 11th Battalion.
He caan be found in the roll of honour of the Manchester Regiment 21st Batt the Batt in which he was killed.
He is commemorated on the Theipville memorial along with 70.000 other soldiers who have no known grave.
All british soldiers were volunteers until 1916 when coscription came in bacause of the heavy losses incirred in France in the first 2 years of the WAR.
Conditions in France were such they made the conditions in the Dardelles look like a Sunday School Picnic.
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