Photo of Patrick's daughter on confirmation day wearing 1st medal 1914

Family portrait showing Patrick Langdon, his wife Mary, and their children John Thomas, Nora, Peter and Anthony; Medal, marked Corporal 5344 || Corporal Patrick Langdon (5344) was in the Connaught Rangers. Born in Galway, Ireland in 1889, he was living at Spanish Parade in 1901 but was no longer there in 1911. He contracted malaria in the forces in WW1. He was a pensioner after the war, and traded in his pension for funeral costs about a year before his death in 1937. He is pictured here with his family: wife Mary and children, John Thomas (father of contributor, born 1909), Nora, Peter and baby Anthony. The family lived in Adiwell outside Edinburgh, but returned to Mayo, Ireland in the 1920s.

Picture of my grandfather; Frank William Osborne taken in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada; just before he sailed to England/France during WW1 about the SS Olympic; (which was the sister ship to the SS Titanic which struck an iceberg and sunk with much loss of life). He served 23 months with the 1st Canadian Vet Hospital. He was a blacksmith and horse shoe finisher. He serviced the cavalry mounts; as well as ambulance, gun, and supply horses and mules. || Photograph handed down in family || || Frank William Osborne || 45.2732438,-66.0633206