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Private Patrick Gilligan

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Private Patrick Gilligan

Birth
Ireland
Death
10 Oct 1918 (aged 18–19)
At Sea
Burial
Cabra, County Dublin, Ireland Add to Map
Plot
RC. 605.
Memorial ID
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294297 Private Patrick Gilligan.
The Royal Air Force.

Aged 19.

The 19th Training Squadron was based at Curragh Camp, Newbridge, Co. Kildare.
A group of trainees had been based there and were now being transferred to Egypt.
Among the casualties of the Royal Air Force group were
Lieutenant Norman Mellor
Corporal Harry Aldridge

Private Thomas Cardiff
Private John Corrigan
Air Mechanic William Crichton
Private Patrick Gilligan
Private Edward Kelly
Private Robert O'Grady
Air Mechanic Thomas Reilly
Private Thomas Woodgate

He was a military passenger on board R.M.S. Leinster which was sunk by torpedoes in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 100km [68 miles] from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.

Death Certificate.
Dublin North East district.
Patrick Gilligan, aged 18, a bachelor, a Private in the RAF, was found drowned from sinking of SS Leinster.
The informant of his death was Patrick Smith, uncle, of 19 George's Place, Temple Street, Dublin, who identified the body. He registered it on 17 October 1918.

His name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H
294297 Private Patrick Gilligan.
The Royal Air Force.

Aged 19.

The 19th Training Squadron was based at Curragh Camp, Newbridge, Co. Kildare.
A group of trainees had been based there and were now being transferred to Egypt.
Among the casualties of the Royal Air Force group were
Lieutenant Norman Mellor
Corporal Harry Aldridge

Private Thomas Cardiff
Private John Corrigan
Air Mechanic William Crichton
Private Patrick Gilligan
Private Edward Kelly
Private Robert O'Grady
Air Mechanic Thomas Reilly
Private Thomas Woodgate

He was a military passenger on board R.M.S. Leinster which was sunk by torpedoes in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 100km [68 miles] from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.

Death Certificate.
Dublin North East district.
Patrick Gilligan, aged 18, a bachelor, a Private in the RAF, was found drowned from sinking of SS Leinster.
The informant of his death was Patrick Smith, uncle, of 19 George's Place, Temple Street, Dublin, who identified the body. He registered it on 17 October 1918.

His name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H

Inscription

Royal Air Force


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