Major George H. Patterson

Regiment: Australian Artillery
Date published: 01/06/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 14/04/1917
Cemetery: HYDE PARK CORNER (ROYAL BERKS) CEMETERY
Plot: C. 1.
Information: Major George H. Patterson, Australian Artillery, who was killed in action in France on the 14th of April, 1917, was born in Hobart, Tasmania (1887). His father, who was a son of the late Rev. Samuel Patterson, Ballygoran, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, having gone out there in the early '80s to take up the position of Mathematical Master in Hobart College, married a Colonial lady, and afterwards took the position of Headmaster to the. Preparatory Geelong Grammar School, Australia. He was a graduate and scholar in the Queen's University of Ireland, and died at Geelong in 1907, leaving a widow with son and daughter. His son was educated at the Geelong Grammar School, and was a distinguished classical scholar. He took a commission in the Australian Artillery in 1906, was promoted Captain, 1912, and Major early in the present year. He was a grand-nephew of the Hon. James C. Patterson, B.L., M.P., who was a late Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba. Canada, and is a nephew of Mr. James Patterson, 49 Northumberland Road, Dublin.