Patrick Cunningham

Rank:	Private
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Townland:	Tullybane
Town/Village:	Mount Temple, Moate, Co. Westmeath
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Alternative Address:	Uncertain if he lived in Longford.
Census 1901:	Resident at Rathduff, Co. Westmeath www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Westmeath/Mount_Temple/Rathduff/1775792/
Census 1911:	Resident with wife and family at Tullybane www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Westmeath/Mount_Temple/Tullybane/878681/
Regiment/Unit:	Leinster Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Regiment Number:	5118,
Date of Death:	21-03-1918
Cause:	Killed in action
Memorial:	Pozieres Memorial, Pozieres, Somme, France.
Information:	Patrick was born in Rathduff* near Moate on the 29 June 1879. His father, also called Patrick, was a collier. Patrick married Mary Murray at Mount Temple on the 10 November 1903, and they went on to have a number of children. Patrick enlisted with the Leinster Regiment in Longford, but was killed in action at the beginning of the German Spring Offensive of 1918.
Parents Names:	Son of Patrick Cunningham and Ellen (née Daly), Rathduff, Mount Temple, Moate, Co. Westmeath.
Notes:	*Patrick's attestation suggests that he was born in Longford, but this appears to have been an error, possibly with the original transcription.
Links:	Link to CWGC entry; Civil Record of Birth; Civil Record of Marriage;

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