Family Search: When Corporal Patrick Kelleher was born on 24 August 1886, in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Keleher, was 40 and his mother, Margaret Jestin, was 28. He married Agatha Mathilda Freidman on 3 July 1913, in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Wellington, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 29, his occupation is listed as plasterer in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada. He died on 29 August 1918, in Le Tréport, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France, at the age of 32, and was buried in Le Tréport, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France.
Military Medal. London Gazette. No. 31142. Page 1243. Date: January 21, 1919.
Roy Beitz and Patrick Kelleher were two more soldiers whose Circumstances of Casualty reports state that they had been awarded Military Medals. Guelph-born Kelleher lived on Wellington Street and worked as a plasterer. He enlisted in January 1915 and was killed in action at age 33 on Aug. 29, 1918. Beitz came from Mildmay, Ont., and was employed in Guelph as a clerk when he enlisted in September 1915. Twenty-five-year-old Beitz was reported missing in action and presumed dead on Sept. 30, 1918.
These men and others distinguished themselves under daunting conditions. They were recognized in their own time as heroes. Today, they are mostly forgotten, except perhaps by families that still treasure their hard-won decorations.
Biographic Information
Son of John Keleher (1845 – 1912) and Margaret Jestin (1854 – 1924).
Husband of Matilda Friedmann (1885 – XXXX). Matilda was born in Germany. Her parents were Ignatius Friedmann and Julia Hanck. Matilda and Patrick married 03 July, 1913 in Guelph, Wellington, ON, Canada
Patrick had nine siblings: Mary Ellen (1878-1958), John Joseph (1880 – 1909), James William (1882-XXXX), William Albert (1883- 1883), Daniel Daley (1889 – 1969), Margaret Jane (1891 – XXXX), Caroline (1893 – XXXX), Robert (1896 – XXXX), and Bessie Aneta (1900 – XXXX).
Patrick died of wounds. Specifically a gunshot wound to the right thigh. He died at the #47 General Hospital in Le Treport, Haute-Normandie, France.
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History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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