Lest we forget

O’Connor Power’s nephew, Patrick Power, born in Galway in 1896, joined the Connaught Rangers  to fight in the First World War.  He died, like many thousands of Irishmen, in France and is buried in a flower-shaped cemetery near Vimy Ridge.

A bronze memorial plaque was awarded in recognition of the death of a loved one.  It was popularly known as the Dead Man’s Penny or the Widow’s Penny.

To mark the centennial of his death, 1 June 2015, Patrick’s great-nephew, Michael Stanford, visited the grave and left an arrangement of flowers.