... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... DEATH OF GENERAL PATTON ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... the mourners was one old Luxembourg woman who had waited for two hours in pouring rain. General Patton was our liberator she explained. Now 'General Patton sleeps among the men he led. Simple John Przywara lies in the grave on lone side of him and Wayne ...

... “At home with the Lord.” PATTON —December 23, 1945, at her residence, 53, Longstone Street, Lisburn, Mary Patton. Funeral to-morrow (Tuesday), at 2.30 p.m., to Lisburn Cemetery. Deeply regretted by her sorrowing Son, Daniel Patton- Daughter and Son-in-law ...

... character. Duriuir Patton’s four years as Chief of Cavalry in Washington lit* was to the visiting Prince-of Wales, and taught the young Prince how to play the game of Craps (dice) in Army style. Besides being an expert tanks, Patton was an authority on ...