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Sgt. Patrick Lynch
British Army 7th Btn. Leinster Regiment
from:Drogheda, Co. Louth
(d.3rd September 1916)
Sergeant Patrick Lynch aged 22 was killed on 3rd of September 1916 as he helped stretcher a wounded officer from the bloody Somme battlefield.
He was the son of James and Jane Lynch, of 11 Mary Street, Drogheda, he served with the Leinster Regiment during World War I. His memory is commemorated on the Drogheda Cenotaph at the end of the street where his family lived, at the Thiepval Memorial to the missing servicemen who died in the various battles of the Somme between 1915 and 1918, and on the headstone marking his parent's final resting place in Calvary Cemetery, Drogheda.