First Name: | Patrick |
Last Name: | Lyons |
Rank: | Private |
Regiment: | 5th Connaught Rangers |
Military Number: | 137 |
Place of Birth: | St. Jarlath's Parish Tuam |
Place of Death: | Gallipoli ( Killed in Action) |
Date of Death: | 23-Aug-15 |
Age: | 63 |
Additional Information: | Death: ( Gallipoli ) 23 August 1915. Age 63. Supplementary Notes: Enlisted; Galway. Born: St Jarlath’s Parish ,Tuam. If his age is recorded correctly, he was the oldest Know Galway Soldier to die during the Great War. Tom Canavan was also age 63, when he was lost Following the sinking of the trawler Pretty Polly, and he was a civilian, not an enlisted man. Remembered: Helles Memorial – Gallipoli – Turkey ( 185 to 190). |