Career
Hanna joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in November 1914. The citation published in the London Gazette, of November 8, 1917, detailed the event as follows:-
This warrant officer, under heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, coolly collected and led a party against the strong point, rushed through the wire and personally killed four of the enemy, capturing the position and silencing the machine-gun. This courageous action was responsible for the capture of a most important tactical point.
He was born near Hanna"s Close in Kilkeel, County Down Ulster in Ireland, near to the Mourne Mountains.
His personal sword is on the wall of Kilkeel Royal British Legion club In Kilkeel he belonged to Aughnahoory Loyal Orange Lodge Number 343 and upon moving to Canada he joined the Orange Order in Canada Vancouver based Ontario L.O.L. Number.
2226.
He died in Mount Lehman, British Columbia, Canada on 15 June 1967. Hanna is buried at the Masonic Cemetery, Burnaby, British Columbia (plot 49, section C, grave 2).