Postcard Amiens Cathedral - The High Altar || Front

Photographs: John Cooney; John Cooney British War Medal; 1914-15 Star - Patrick Condon; British War Medal - Patrick Condon; Victory Medal - Patrick Condon; Death plaque - Patrick Condon; || John Cooney fought in WW1. He worked as a farm labourer and was always hardy. He didn't have any disabilities from the war. He never married, died in 1970 and is buried in Taghmon with his sister. Patrick Condon died on 29 March 1918 of wounds received a few days before. He was 25 years old and had served from the beginning of the war and been wounded on three previous occasions. He is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. His brother, John Condon survived. He had been taken prisoner after the Battle of Mons. He was wounded but lived to be a good age and walked miles for his job as a cattle drover. I worked with him when I was a boy for a few shillings. He was a great character, full of yarns, but never talked about the war. John got medals in the war but surprisingly lost them but kept his deceased brother Patrick's medals safe. Before John Condon passed away he gave Patrick's medals to John Cooney for safe keeping, probably because he was a trusted brother in arms. John Cooney trusted my father with both sets of medals (his own and Patrick Cooney's) and when my father died he passed them to me for safe keeping. || || 52.3229838,-6.654669900000044 || John Cooney || Photograph || Remembrance || John Cooney in later years || || John Cooney's British War Medal || Remembrance || British War Medal - John Cooney || Medal || || British War Medal - John Cooney, reverse || Remembrance || Medal || British War Medal, reverse - John Cooney || || Medal || Patrick Condon's war medals || Patrick Condon's medals || Remembrance || || Patrick Condon's 1914-15 Star || Medal || Remembrance || || Medal || Patrick Condon's 1914-15 Star, reverse || Remembrance || || Patrick Condon's British War Medal || Remembrance || Medal || || Remembrance || Medal || Patrick Condon's British War Medal, reverse || || Remembrance || Patrick Condon's Victory Medal || Medal || || Remembrance || Medal || Patrick Condon's Victory Medal, reverse || || Medal || Patrick Condon's Death Plaque || Remembrance

Pictured on the front of this photograph is a small child wearing a British soldier’s cap with a Royal Artillery cap badge) and holding a swagger stick. The printed details on the reverse tell us that the photograph was produced by ‘Ideal Studio, White Hart St., High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire’. A message has been written in black ink. It reads, ‘Dear Auntie Ivy / you are a long time writing to us so I am coming to see you hope you are getting on alright, with love from Evelyn / kisses for you & Uncle Fred xxxxxxx / xxxx / xx / A new recruit for Kitchener’s Army’. || A real photographic postcard || || Photograph || Front || A photograph of a child with British soldier's accoutrements