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25/04/2016 From the Northern Constitution dated 17th November 1917:
25/04/2016 Mr John Patton, Tyanee, has been informed that his son, Private Archie Patton, aged 30, of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, was killed in action on 12th October 1917. Private Patton emigrated thirteen years ago and was one of the first to volunteer in 1914.
06/03/2016 The CWGC record Rifleman Archibald Patton as the son of John and Sarah Patton, of Lydnee, Portglenone, Co. Antrim, Ireland. This should be Tyanee, Portglenone.
06/03/2016 Archibald Patton was the second youngest son of John and Sarah Patton. John Patton and Sarah Crockett were married on 26th December 1872 in the district of Magherafelt.
06/03/2016 Archibald Patton was born on 12th November 1885 in the Bellaghy / Portglenone area, probably in Tyanee where he lived. He was one of ten children, eight surviving.
06/03/2016 Family: John Patton, Sarah Patton, William Patton (born 30th September 1873), Annie Patton (born 6th November 1874), Margaret Patton (born 24th April 1876, died 10th September 1886), James Patton (born 20th July 1877), George Patton (born 10th November 1878, died 14th November 1888), John Patton (born 20th November 1880), Elizabeth Patton (born 18th May 1882), Mary Maria Patton (born 24th January 1884), Archibald Patton (born 12th November 1885), Samuel Patton (born 26th August 1887)
06/03/2016 The 1901 census lists Archie Patton as age 15 living with the family at house 84 in Tyanee, Claudy, County Londonderry. He was still at school. They were a farming family.
06/03/2016 The 1911 census does not list Archie as living with the family at house 98 in Tyanee, Clady, County Londonderry.
06/03/2016 Archibald Patton emigrated to New Zealand. There was an Archibald Paton, who arrived 25 November 1907 in Wellington.
06/03/2016 Prior to enlisting Archibald was living in Erua/Taumarunui area of the North Island of New Zealand. He was described as being a settler. He had previously worked for the Railway Depot.
06/03/2016 Archibald Patton enlisted on 3rd April 1916 at Trentham Military Camp, near Wellington.
06/03/2016 His sister, Elizabeth Patton, is named as his next of along with his father. She was living at Seafieldview Road, Auckland, New Zealand.
06/03/2016 Another sister, Maria Kyle, was living in Lyndhurst Street, Gisborne, New Zealand.
06/03/2016 Rifleman Patton is buried in Perth Cemetery (China Wall), which is located 3 kilometres east of Ypres town centre.
06/03/2016 The Auckland Star, dated 13 December 1917, reported that he had been killed in action. It states he had relatives in Whangarei.
06/03/2016 Archibald Patton is also commemorated in 1st Portglenone Presbyterian Church. A memorial tablet was erected by his brother in Innisrush Parish Church.
06/03/2016 Rifleman Archibald Patton was serving with the 1st Battalion (A Company) of the 3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade when he was killed in action near Ypres in Belgium on 12th October 1917.
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