Son of ALBERT EDWARD PATRICK, a draper and his wife ANGES (nee WALKER).
He married RITA VICTORIA ELLUL, in Malta around 1941. They had three children.
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Charles Patrick was a 28 year old married man with three children who had voluntarily transferred from the
Dorsetshire Regiment to the Military Police Special Investigation Unit, based in Goslar in the Harz district of Lower Saxony in Germany.
On 11 January, 1947 he was requested to collect a leave party from Brunswick railway station by 21 year old ATS Pvt GEORGINA KELTY who was staying in a hotel. Later she and Patrick set off for a party organised by the Provost. They then went back to Patrick's room where she was last seen around 11.30 p.m.
On the Monday morning a waitress bringing breakfast to the room noticed a person lying on the bed covered by a blanket. At around 12.30, she heard what sounded like a shot.
She saw Patrick leave his room and noted that he spent the rest of the day in the Sergeants' Mess.
Patrick telephoned his Company Sergeant Major and asked him to send someone to investigate a double homicide. He also phoned a colleague and told him that he had shot his girlfriend and was going to shoot himself.
When other military policemen searched Patrick's room they discovered Georgina's body on the bed, with a pistol beside her. She had been shot in the head. Patrick was questioned and claimed the shooting was an accident. The real motive, if there was one, is not known.
He was tried by courts martial on 28 and 29 March, 1947. Convicted of Georgina's murder he was sentenced to death. In due course the sentence was confirmed and he was hanged at Hameln prison by Albert Pierrepoint, assisted by Edwin Roper on 5 September 1947.
HANGED AT HAMELN PRISON FOR THE MURDER OF W/296503 PTE GEORGINA KELTY A.T.S. IN GOSLAR ON THE 31st January, 1947. He had shot her with a Walther PPK
He married RITA VICTORIA ELLUL, in Malta around 1941. They had three children.
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Charles Patrick was a 28 year old married man with three children who had voluntarily transferred from the
Dorsetshire Regiment to the Military Police Special Investigation Unit, based in Goslar in the Harz district of Lower Saxony in Germany.
On 11 January, 1947 he was requested to collect a leave party from Brunswick railway station by 21 year old ATS Pvt GEORGINA KELTY who was staying in a hotel. Later she and Patrick set off for a party organised by the Provost. They then went back to Patrick's room where she was last seen around 11.30 p.m.
On the Monday morning a waitress bringing breakfast to the room noticed a person lying on the bed covered by a blanket. At around 12.30, she heard what sounded like a shot.
She saw Patrick leave his room and noted that he spent the rest of the day in the Sergeants' Mess.
Patrick telephoned his Company Sergeant Major and asked him to send someone to investigate a double homicide. He also phoned a colleague and told him that he had shot his girlfriend and was going to shoot himself.
When other military policemen searched Patrick's room they discovered Georgina's body on the bed, with a pistol beside her. She had been shot in the head. Patrick was questioned and claimed the shooting was an accident. The real motive, if there was one, is not known.
He was tried by courts martial on 28 and 29 March, 1947. Convicted of Georgina's murder he was sentenced to death. In due course the sentence was confirmed and he was hanged at Hameln prison by Albert Pierrepoint, assisted by Edwin Roper on 5 September 1947.
HANGED AT HAMELN PRISON FOR THE MURDER OF W/296503 PTE GEORGINA KELTY A.T.S. IN GOSLAR ON THE 31st January, 1947. He had shot her with a Walther PPK
Son of ALBERT EDWARD PATRICK, a draper and his wife ANGES (nee WALKER).
He married RITA VICTORIA ELLUL, in Malta around 1941. They had three children.
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Charles Patrick was a 28 year old married man with three children who had voluntarily transferred from the
Dorsetshire Regiment to the Military Police Special Investigation Unit, based in Goslar in the Harz district of Lower Saxony in Germany.
On 11 January, 1947 he was requested to collect a leave party from Brunswick railway station by 21 year old ATS Pvt GEORGINA KELTY who was staying in a hotel. Later she and Patrick set off for a party organised by the Provost. They then went back to Patrick's room where she was last seen around 11.30 p.m.
On the Monday morning a waitress bringing breakfast to the room noticed a person lying on the bed covered by a blanket. At around 12.30, she heard what sounded like a shot.
She saw Patrick leave his room and noted that he spent the rest of the day in the Sergeants' Mess.
Patrick telephoned his Company Sergeant Major and asked him to send someone to investigate a double homicide. He also phoned a colleague and told him that he had shot his girlfriend and was going to shoot himself.
When other military policemen searched Patrick's room they discovered Georgina's body on the bed, with a pistol beside her. She had been shot in the head. Patrick was questioned and claimed the shooting was an accident. The real motive, if there was one, is not known.
He was tried by courts martial on 28 and 29 March, 1947. Convicted of Georgina's murder he was sentenced to death. In due course the sentence was confirmed and he was hanged at Hameln prison by Albert Pierrepoint, assisted by Edwin Roper on 5 September 1947.
HANGED AT HAMELN PRISON FOR THE MURDER OF W/296503 PTE GEORGINA KELTY A.T.S. IN GOSLAR ON THE 31st January, 1947. He had shot her with a Walther PPK
He married RITA VICTORIA ELLUL, in Malta around 1941. They had three children.
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Charles Patrick was a 28 year old married man with three children who had voluntarily transferred from the
Dorsetshire Regiment to the Military Police Special Investigation Unit, based in Goslar in the Harz district of Lower Saxony in Germany.
On 11 January, 1947 he was requested to collect a leave party from Brunswick railway station by 21 year old ATS Pvt GEORGINA KELTY who was staying in a hotel. Later she and Patrick set off for a party organised by the Provost. They then went back to Patrick's room where she was last seen around 11.30 p.m.
On the Monday morning a waitress bringing breakfast to the room noticed a person lying on the bed covered by a blanket. At around 12.30, she heard what sounded like a shot.
She saw Patrick leave his room and noted that he spent the rest of the day in the Sergeants' Mess.
Patrick telephoned his Company Sergeant Major and asked him to send someone to investigate a double homicide. He also phoned a colleague and told him that he had shot his girlfriend and was going to shoot himself.
When other military policemen searched Patrick's room they discovered Georgina's body on the bed, with a pistol beside her. She had been shot in the head. Patrick was questioned and claimed the shooting was an accident. The real motive, if there was one, is not known.
He was tried by courts martial on 28 and 29 March, 1947. Convicted of Georgina's murder he was sentenced to death. In due course the sentence was confirmed and he was hanged at Hameln prison by Albert Pierrepoint, assisted by Edwin Roper on 5 September 1947.
HANGED AT HAMELN PRISON FOR THE MURDER OF W/296503 PTE GEORGINA KELTY A.T.S. IN GOSLAR ON THE 31st January, 1947. He had shot her with a Walther PPK
Inscription
572515 SERGEANT
C. E. PATRICK
Corps of
Royal Military Police
5th September, 1947
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