Red Gallagher

Name: Red Gallagher
Alias: William Gallagher
Hometown: Bremerton, Washington, USA
Birthplace: Libby, Montana, USA
Pro Boxer: Record

• Exact date of birth unknown. Reported to have been 22-years-old in 1923.
• Gallagher, when not boxing, worked in the shipyards of Bremerton, Washington, USA--then, as now, a major United States naval station. By August 1923, he had been in Bremerton for about four years.

He was seriously injured August 9, 1923 when, as an employee of the navy yard electrical shop, an oil separator machine flew apart while it was being tested. A piece of the machine struck Gallagher, causing a ten-inch gash and fracturing his skull. Although near death, he eventually recovered. Bremerton's Daily News Searchlight. (On March 19, 1925, he filed suit in the federal district court against the DeLaval Separator Co., manufacturer of the machine, for $60,000 in damages. He was being represented by Parrott, Elliott & Smith of Seattle.)

It is sometimes reported that he died October 22, 1923, from injuries he had suffered two weeks prior, while working at that shipyard. (See the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of Oct. 22, 1923.) This needs to be verified, as the Daily News Searchlight reported March 19, 1925 that he had filed a lawsuit in federal district court. Unless this was brought by his estate.