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Corporal Patrick Gibbons 331762
1st/5th King’s Liverpool Regiment
The second son of Peter Gibbons
of Elm Place and worked in Aintree.
He joined up in mid 1915 and saw
service in France where he was wounded and returned to a hospital in Kent to
convalesce.
On recovery he returned to serve
in the ‘ Third Battle of Ypres’ but was killed on September 20th.
1917.
A letter from his commanding
officer said that Patrick was a fearless soldier and met his death gallantly in
an attack on the German trenches.
He is commemorated on panels 31
to 34 at Tyne Cot, Belgium, 8 Km. North East of Ypres, off the N303.
