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... PATTON. TWELVE months ago General George Patton of the American Army was fighting desperately at Bastogne in the bulge created by Rundstedt's breakthrough. To-day he lies dead in hospital in Germany the victim of a motor accident. Tragic end this for ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 424 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GENERAL PATTON

... GENERAL PATTON Burial at Luxembourg 10-day HEIDELBERG. Sunday.—With niple military rites, funeral serices were held to-day for General •ton. The service in Christ Church •red from the normal Episcopal 'vice only in the inclusion of oral Patton’s favourite ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FLAMBOYANT LEADER PASSES General Patton “dies fighting

... FLAMBOYANT LEADER PASSES General Patton “dies fighting /GENERAL PATTON, Commander of the Amerioan 13th Army, paralysed since he received spinal injuries in motor accident on December 9, died late yesterday in hospital at Heidelberg. The commander of ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 711 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GENERAL PATTON DEAD TWELVE DAYS AFTER OAR

... GENERAL PATTON DEAD TWELVE DAYS AFTER OAR ACCIDENT General George S. (Blood and Guts) Patton, the former Commander, of the U.S. Third Army, who was injured in a car accident near Heidelberg, on December 9, died in the U.S. Army Hospital, Heidelberg ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“A GREAT MAN AND A GREAT FIGHTER’’

... history. The world tonight is a poorer place without the fighting heart of George Patton. The British Prime Minister last night sent the following message to Mrs. Patton; “Deeply distressed to learn of. the tragic death of your husband. Please accept ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 211 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LED DASH THROUGH FRANCE COLOURFUL CAREER

... Nary, commander of the U.S. occupation zone. Mrs. Patton was at the bedside of her husband. General Patton, who was born in 1885, was a flamboyant showman, brilliant general, incorrigible hothead and sentimentalist. He began his military career at West ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BELFAST TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1945

... BELFAST TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1945. PATTON AT REST WITH HIS MEN HILLSIDE BURIAL. WIDOW CHIEF MOURNER. With full military hammers, General George X. Patton, wartime Commander of the UM. 3rd Army. was hauled to-day in the American Military Cemetery ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SLAPPED SOLDIER

... exactly week ago to spend Christmas at home. Mrs. Patton has intimated that the General will be buried North-West Europe—probably at some spot connected with the U.S. Third Army, uch as St. Lo. Mrs. Patton has received messages of sympathy from President ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CYCLED AFTER BATH

... verdict of accidental death. BURIAL OF GENERAL PATTON General Patton was buried on Monday beside many of the men ho led in battle in the United States Army cemetery at Hamm, five miles east of Luxembourg. Mrs. Patton stood at the graveside during the military ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 4 | Tags: none