255425 Pte. Patrick Healy British Army 14th Btn. Highland Light Infantry from:West Calder We believe that my grandfather, Patrick Healy, gave his birth date 2 years younger than he was, perhaps he would have been too old to join up at the time he signed up to the 14th Highland Light Infantry.
All I know is that one point he attached to 120th Machine Gun Company. Then to 2nd Highland Light Infantry.
He was badly gassed at some point and ended up at the Dunlop House Red Cross Hospital in Ayrshire where he met my grandmother. She was the daughter of the Head Gardener of the big house and according to my 96 year old mother would go up to the Hospital to write letters for the invalided soldiers. They eventually married, but he died at an early age in 1932 when she was 10, having been troubled by lung problems since the war.
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