Patrick Hagan

Patrick Hagan
Personal information
Full name Patrick Hagan[1]
Date of birth 1880
Place of birth Canongate, Scotland
Date of death 14 July 1916 (aged 36)
Place of death Somme, France
Playing position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1899–1900 Linfield 10 (4)
1903–1905 Linfield
1905–1906 Hibernian 26 (6)
1906–1908 Brentford 49 (11)
1908 Hibernian 9 (3)
1908–1910 Port Glasgow Athletic 57 (12)
National team
1904 Irish League XI 3

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Patrick Hagan (1880 – 14 July 1916) was a Scottish professional football forward who played in the Scottish League for Hibernian and Port Glasgow Athletic.[2][3][4][5] He won five pieces of silverware with Irish League club Linfield between 1903 and 1904.[6]

Personal life

Hagan served in the Boer War with the British Army.[7] He was a sergeant in the 11th Battalion Royal Scots during the First World War and was killed,[8] aged 36,[7] on 14 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.[9] He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 6D and 7D.[1]

Honours

Linfield

References

  1. 1 2 "CWGC - Casualty Details". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  2. "Subscribe". British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription. Retrieved 2016-01-29.
  3. "Hibernian Player Patrick Hagan Details". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
  4. "Port Glasgow Athletic Player Patrick Hagan Details". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  5. White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 359. ISBN 0951526200.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Latest News | The Official Website of Linfield FC". test.keithlavery.com. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  7. 1 2 "Hibernian Football Club in The Great War". Retrieved 2015-09-11.
  8. Chapman, Mark. "Brentford fc war memorial". www.brentfordfc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-11.
  9. "Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme". Retrieved 2015-09-11.


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