His Will written 30 December 1915. His current grave in Ramleh Israel (formerly Egypt). War gratuity for his widow Evelyn Mahon (nee Brady) || My Granduncle Patrick Mahon was one of 13 children born to John Mahon (a Cooper) and Judith Gorman on the 12 December 1879 in Clogh Castlecomer, County Kilkenny Ireland. He enlisted with the British Army in Aldershot Hants UK. He married Evelyn Brady 10th November 1913 in St. Francis Church Naini Tal, Bengal, India. They had a daughter Margaret Julia Mahon born on the 27th August 1914 in St. Mary's Catholic Church Fyzabad Bengal India. He died of his wounds in Palestine 1st January 1918

My grandfather Demetris Georgiou from Louvaras village, Cyprus enlisted as a muleteer in the British Army during the First World War with his brother Yiannis Georgiou. Their father did not want them to go to war, however, they departed from Famagusta sea port and journeyed to Thessaloniki by ship when my grandfather was just 18 years old. When they arrived in Macedonia, they travelled up to the Bulgarian border and reached the Balkan mountains; in Greek: “Pangeon Oros” where they set up camp. My grandfather would often say that he could hear the Jackals (Coyotes) or Chakalia in Greek, howling at night on the Rhodope mountain ranges. The muleteers were unarmed and their job was to look after the mules. The British officers were, however, armed. Demetri and his brother eventually received their first paycheck, which they sent to their father George Georgiou in Cyprus and were later to discover that, as soon as their father received the letter, he kissed it and passed away from his grief at their absence at war. Demetri returned to Cyprus with his brother when the war ended, and married my grandmother, Panagiota Antoniou Papaneophytou, from Pano Platres and they had 5 children. Not long after, British officers in Pano Platres presented Demetri Georgiou with his war medal. His brother Yiannis, remained in Louvaras Village, where he married and had two children and became a priest, Father Papa-Yiannis. Dina V James Limassol, Cyprus || War medal

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