Peter's Story.
Birkenhead News 06 July 1918
“A VERY FINE SOLDIER.”
North-End Gunner Killed.
News been received by Mrs. Lally, 10 Lydia Terrace, Birkenhead, of the death in action of her son, Gunner Peter Lally, R.F.A. It appears he was in a dug-out, with six or seven comrades, when the enemy got a direct hit on the dug-out with a shell, and Lally and two others were killed, and all the rest were more or less wounded. The officer commanding the battery, in communicating the sad news on June 12th to Mrs. Lally, writes :- “Your son was a very fine man – respected in every way by all the officers, N.C.O.’s and men in the battery. He always did his work conscientiously and well. His body is being sent to the cemetery tonight, where he will be buried with all military honours. Please accept my sympathy also that of all the officers. N.C.O.’s and men, who all know him to be a very fine soldier and man.”
Gunner Lally, who was only 20 years of age, joined up in 1915, and served in the Buffs becoming an artilleryman. He was wounded in the hand last Christmas, and was home until March. As a boy he attended Our Lady’s School, and was very fond of acting as a caddie on Bidston golf links. Before going into the Army he worked in the North End flour mills. A brother of the deceased is in the Navy.