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Military service
Service number:
F/55650
Age:
21
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Cape Breton Highlanders, R.C.I.C
Birth:
September 9, 1922
Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
August 12, 1940
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Death:
January 18, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. G. 11.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Mary Ellen Corkery of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia.
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Written by my father, Daniel A Corkery.<P> F55650 CPL. Patrick Duncan Corkery. <P> Served with the Cape Breton Highlanders. <P> Born 9 Sept. 1922. Wounded on active duty in Italy 17 January, 1944 and died of his wounds on 18 January, 1944 at the age of 22. Enlisted 12 August, 1940 at age 18. <P> Employment: Coal hauler with No.1 Collery in Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.<P> Of Interest: The town of Sydney Mines had the highest enlistment rate in any town of the Commonwealth at 75.9 %. From Sydney Mines 14 were killed; 4 of the soldiers who lost their lives were from the same street as my brother, Patrick Duncan Corkery. -
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Headstone of Patrick Duncan Corkery's grave in Italy. Truely, the CBH were a "Breed of Manly Men". -
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Corporal Patrick Duncan Corkery
Digital gallery of
Corporal Patrick Duncan Corkery
Digital gallery of
Corporal Patrick Duncan Corkery
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Commemorated on:
Page 279 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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