Patrick's Story.
Birkenhead News 29 September 1915North-end Soldier Killed.
SEVENTEEN YEARS A SOLDIER.
Five Children Left.
News has been received by his wife, who lives at 43, Back St. Anne Street, that her husband, Private Patrick Lyons, of the reserve section of the 5th Connaught Rangers, was killed in action in Gallipoli on August 17th.
Private Lyons was an old soldier, with no less than seventeen years’ service to his credit. He fought right through the South African campaign, having enlisted for service there in Galway. Subsequent to the South African war he came to live in Birkenhead, having worked for the greater part of his time for Mr. David Evans, a well-known local builder. He had only been out in Gallipoli about two months. Mrs. Lyons first received an official intimation that her husband had been wounded, but two days later she learned of his death. The deceased soldier, who was connected with the Royal Irish Foresters, leaves five children.
Although the above newspaper article reports Patrick Lyons’ death in action as 17th August his actual date of death is the 23rd August as recorded on the CWGC database and military records.