Kerins, Patrick

BORN CURRY, COUNTY SLIGO 1881. SON OF PATRICK KERINS (1829-1904) AND CATHERINE ROGERS (1842-1923). ON OF TEN CHILDREN.

HE ENLISTED & LIVED IN HULL. HE MARRIED BRIDGET DUNN (1879-1940), AT SCULCOATES, HULL, IN JULY 1906. HIS WIFE BRIDGET, TWO SONS AND DAUGHTER, LIVED AT 11 ST PAULS CRESCENT, ST MARKS STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN ELECTRIC CAR DRIVER.

HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A BOMBARDIER IN THE ROYAL FILED ARTILLERY. KILLED IN ACTION, AT ARRAS, ON 21/04/1917, AGED 35. BURIED IN FRANCE (Plot 6 Row P Grave 27 in Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux)

HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED LOCALLY. HIS SURNAME SPELT KERINE IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 30/05/1917.

Name Patrick Kerins
Birth Place Curry, County Sligo, Ireland, 1881
Death Date 21 Apr 1917
Death Place Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, Pas de Calais, France
Enlistment Place Hull
Rank Bombardier
Regiment Royal Garrison Artillery 146th (3rd Hull) Heavy Battery
Regimental Number 294619
Type of Casualty Killed in action
Theatre of War Western European Theatre

First name:
PATRICK
Military Number:
294619
Rank:
Bombardier
Date Died
21/04/1917
Place died:
Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
35
11, ST PAULS CRESCENT, ST MARKS STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK