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Documentation relating to army career and photograph of Patrick Downey, Royal Irish Fusiliers
Patrick Downey, Royal Irish Fusiliers
My grandparents were living in Athlone, Patrick Downey was my grandfather. He was called up. He was in the Gallipoli campaign. I have a photograph of his medals. The medals are in Australia. They landed on 7th Aug 1915. 5th Battalion of Royal Irish fusileers. Telegram from before Christmas 1915, saying his was missing, presumed dead. Then she received a later one to say he had been found. He was t…
Contributors
- Patricia Leavey
Subject
- World War I
- Patrick Downey
- John Downey
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Contributors
- Patricia Leavey
Subject
- World War I
- Patrick Downey
- John Downey
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2012-03-21 10:48:00 UTC
- 2012-03-21
- 2012-03-21
Places
- Gallipoli Front
Provenance
- DU18
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- 3339
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/3339
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:38:33.784Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z