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Sgt Patrick Joseph "Paddy" O'Neill MID
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
Patrick is my grandad. He did not talk much of the war. I wish I had recorded what he did say, and perhaps got him to say more. He did tell us how they found urinating on their wooly socks and put them over their nose during Mustard Gas attacks worked better than the "useless" gas masks.
He fought in the Somme and Ypres. I have a parchment stating "gallant conduct and devotion to duty in the field March 9th 1917" also his name to be entered into the regimental records, but I don't know where to find more about that as he did not say.
He stayed in the Army and protected Michael Collins during the troubles in Ireland in the 1920s. He lived a good long life and died aged 86.
