| James Hogg was listed on Panel One of the World War One memorial in Coagh Orange Hall to those who served.
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| Little substantive information is available for James Hogg.
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| There was a William and James Hogg who signed the Ulster Covenant together at Tamlaght Parish Church. They were from Coagh.
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| There was a William Hogg from the Cloghog / Drapersfield area who served with the Inniskillings in the war. There was also a James and William Hogg, of the Royal Irish Rifles, whose sister lived at Ardvarnish, also in the Drapersfield / Grange area. It is thought that these refer to the same William Hogg. The two reports which refer to the brothers are listed below. There is no reference as to where the brothers lived.
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| From the Mid Ulster Mail 26th June 1915: Rifleman James Hogg
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| Rifleman James Hogg, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, writing from 3rd Northern Hospital, Sheffield, on 13th June to his sister who lives in Ardvarnish, Cookstown, says:-
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| ‘I suppose you received the postcard saying I am in Sheffield Hospital. The wound is not very serious; a shell burst in the trench beside me and the explosion broke the drum of my right ear. It has been very painful, but it is getting all right again. I am deaf with it, but I can hear all right with the other one, so I am not so badly off after all. I am very glad to be in England again and in such a good hospital. The sisters are very nice and they think they cannot do enough for us. I think I will manage to get home for the Twelfth, as I always said I would. When discharged from hospital I will get home on furlough, but when that will be I cannot say, and I need not be in a hurry getting out of here as it is such a glorious change from the trenches. I will write to the others when my head gets settled as it is a bit dizzy yet.’
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| From the Mid Ulster Mail 26th June 1915: Lance Corporal William Hogg
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| She also received a letter from her brother Lance Corporal William Hogg, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who is in France in which he says:-
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| ‘Just a few lines in answer to your very welcome letter which I received all right, also the cigarettes, which I was very glad to get. You need not worry about me as I am all right now and expect to be going up the line soon again. I think James is well as I was speaking to one of the R.I.R. (Royal Irish Rifles), who saw him a week ago and he was well then, but one never knows the minute death is due to them here as there is heavy fighting going on this last month. It does not matter much about a few men out here for we must win this scrap, and to do so we must lose a lot of our comrades. But that does not matter as we have only one life to lose, and if we lose it out here it will be in a good cause.’
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