article_snippet: Lt Sgt Patrick Mannion said: 'As a young boy I looked up to Lt Sgt Patrick Mannion for being a soldier, and would play with Lt Sgt Patrick Mannion medals and bits and pieces
article_snippet: Lt Sgt Patrick Mannion brought back from the war. '
article_snippet: I never knew what Lt Sgt Patrick Mannion had done in the war, I was always curious, but no one could tell me for certain. '
article_snippet: In the end I set out to find out Lt Sgt Patrick Mannion.
article_snippet: I decided to get Lt Sgt Patrick Mannion service records, paid £30, and was sent 2,600 pages.
article_snippet: Lt Sgt Mannion's documents showed that Lt Sgt Mannion grandfather fought in Normandy, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
article_snippet: Lt Sgt Mannion landed in Normandy the day after D-Day, and was also involved in peacekeeping after the war, routinely patrolling Germany arresting fleeing Germans and preventing further unrest.
article_snippet: According to the files, it was on one such patrol that Lt Sgt Mannion and three other members of Lt Sgt Mannion patrol stumbled across the group of Germans, who were acting suspiciously.
article_snippet: Lt Sgt Mannion died in in 1948 following complications of injuries sustained in the war.
highlights_snippet: Historian was researching Historian relative's military career when Historian found out .
  