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1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army) |
| Date Of Birth: |
12/02/1897
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| Died: |
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action) |
| Age: |
19 |
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Patrick Woods was the eldest son of Patrick and Jane Woods. Patrick Woods was born on 12th February 1897. He was one of fifteen children, twelve surviving, all born in the Caledon area. The family lived at Main Street, Caledon. His father was a publican. Private Patrick Woods was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in the 1st July 1916. The CWGC record Patrick as the son of Patrick and Jane Woods, who by then, lived at 340 Scotland Street, Glasgow.
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The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
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