The 10th and the 11th (Service) Battalions arrived at Boulogne on the 12/05/1915. On the 14/05/1916 the 10th (Service) Battalion transferred to the 46th Brigade, 15th (Scottish) Division and amalgamated with the 11th (Service) Battalion to form 10/11th (Service) Battalion. On the 01/02/1918 they transferred to the 119th Brigade, 40th Division. On the 16/02/1918 they transferred to the 120th Brigade in the same Division. The Battles of the Lys, 9th April - 29th April 1918 : The third German offensive Operation Georgette takes place in Flanders with the objective of capturing key railway and supply roads and cutting off British Second Army at Ypres. After initial successes the German attack is once again held after British and French reserves are somehow found and deployed. Patrick was taken prisoner on the 09/04/1918 at the Battle of Estaires and died as a prisoner of war in a Hospital in Liege only 8 days before the Armistice and was buried by the Germans. Patrick's Battalion took part in the Battle of Estaires, 9th - 11th April 1918 and the Battle of Hazebrouck, 12th - 15th April 1918 (both part of the Battles of the Lys). Liege was attacked by the Germans on 04/08/1914. The city itself was occupied on the 7th but the last forts were not captured until the 16th. Liege remained in German hands until the end of the War. The city Cemetery at Robermont was used for the burial of Allied prisoners of war and now contains French, Belgian, Italian, Russian and Commonwealth war graves plots. The Commonwealth plot contains 50 burials of the First World War, and one from the Second World War (in addition 1 Belgian national, who flew with the RAF, is buried elsewhere in the Cemetery). Patrick's Grave photo kindly donated by Mick McCann at the British War Graves website who supply photos FREE OF CHARGE
here. Patrick is also remembered on the St. Patrick's Church (book) Roll of Honour. See photos for Patrick's Medal Index Card, his CWGC Grave Registration x 2, his Headstone Report x 4, his Army Register of Soldiers Effects, his Service Medal and Award Rolls, Patrick's Pension Records x 3, Liege (Robermont) Cemetery and the Highland Light Infantry Cap Badge. Patrick's grave inscription reads "ETERNAL REST GIVE UNTO HIM O LORD AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM. R.I.P". Finally, see photos for a map of the German break-in on the 9th April 1918. German forces cross the Lys at Bac St Maur and the Lawe near Pont-Riqueul. 55th (West Lancashire) Division fights a magnificent defence at Givenchy; 2nd Portuguese and British 40th Divisions are all but lost ; 34th Division holds northern flank at Armentieres, PHOTOS x 18 FOR THE BATTALION WAR DIARY MARCH 1918. This includes the Battle of St Quentin 21st - 23rd March 1918 when the Highland Light Infantry was part of a allied defensive formation attacked by vastly superior numbers of German storm-troopers, PHOTOS x 10 FOR THE BATTALION WAR DIARY APRIL 1918, PHOTOS x 41 for the 40th DIVISION BOOK 09/04/1918 and the 40th Division Order of Battle x 12 (the Division he was taken prisoner).
