| THIS MAY NOT BE OUR PRIVATE PATRICK DONNELLY, 2ND BATTALION DUBLIN FUSILIERS. Newspaper reports suggest a second Patrick Donnelly who was gassed and may have returned to Dungannon.
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| Patrick Donnelly was born in Dublin.
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| Patrick Donnelly was living in Dublin when he enlisted in Maryborough, Laois.
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| From the Belfast Newsletter dated 2nd June 1915:
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| Private Patrick Donnelly, 2nd Battalion Dublin Fusiliers, writing to his mother at Washingford Road, Dungannon, from the Duchess of Westminster's Hospital, Etaples, France, states:- 'You will be sorry to hear I was poisoned by gas on Monday last at Ypres, and was brought down to this hospital next day. I am feeling much better now. '
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| From the Tyrone Courier dated 8th July 1915:
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| Other Dungannon soldiers home from the front wounded include Private Michael Wilson and Private Patrick Donnelly of the Dublin Fusiliers; Lance Corporal Adam Harbinson of the Royal Irish rifles and Private W J Wilson of the Irish Fusiliers.
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| Private Patrick Donnelly was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the 26th April 1915 in France & Flanders.
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| Private Donnelly has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate in Ypres.
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| It is not known what link this Private Patrick Donnelly had, if any, to the Dungannon area.
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| GRONI has a reference (D/1920/112/1012/29/289) to a Patrick Donnelly who died on 9th January 1920 in Dungannon, aged 30. The age ties in with the age of the Washingford Patrick Donnelly. More research required!
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