James
Breen
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
84 Baggot Lane, Dublin
Address
Ballygarett, Co. Wexford
Date of Death
Circumstances of Death
Died of wounds at No. 1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station
Other Biographical Details
Son of John and Bridget Breen née Byrne, both born in Co. Wexford. His father worked as a coachman. On the death of his mother from chronic pneumonia at Ballyminane, Co. Wexford in January 1901, he, his father and brother John moved to his grandfathers's farm in Mangan Lower, Ballygarrett, Co. Wexford. His father died from tuberculosis on 18th May, 1901. In 1911 James was working as a grocer's apprentice in Ballygarrett. He enlisted before the beginning of the war in August 1913.
