LYONS, PATRICK JOSEPH
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3782944
25/09/1944
29
The Monmouthshire Regiment 2nd Bn.
I. C. 11
All that’s bright must fade. The brightest still the fleetest.
All that’s sweet was made but to be lost when sweetest
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Son of Patrick Joseph Lyons, and of Mary Lyons (nee O’Neill); husband of Lilian Agnes Lyons (nee Mullis), of Colchester, Essex
Born on 4-7-1915 in Limerick. Died during the battles around the hamlet of Voorheide, Belgium.
Initial gravesite at Voorheide, Belgium.
From the service records of Patrick Joseph Lyons, the following account can be reconstructed.
Patrick Joseph Lyons was born on 14 July 1915 in Limerick, Éire. In civilian life he worked as a shop porter. He was described as being 5 feet 2½ inches tall, with blue eyes and brown hair.
He enlisted in the British Army on 25 September 1941 and joined The King’s Regiment (Liverpool). On 22 December 1943, Patrick married Lilian Agnes Mulles at Lufnell Park in London. The couple had one child.
Patrick was shipped to North-West Europe on 2 June 1944 as part of the Allied build-up following D-Day. During the campaign he was transferred on 24 July 1944 to the East Lancashire Regiment, and later, on 18 August 1944, to the Monmouthshire Regiment.
Patrick Joseph Lyons was killed in action on 25 September 1944, exactly three years after his enlistment and less than a year after his marriage.
