Private Patrick Carroll was born and raised in Leigh, Lancashire, living with his family at 94 Selwyn Street. Like so many young men of the town, he worked in the pits before the war, a collier at Abram Collieries and briefly at Bedford Colliery — a hard life, but one shared by an entire community who knew graft, loyalty, and pride. Long before the nation called, Patrick had already answered. Around 1911, while still a teenager, he joined the Leigh Territorials — the 5th Battalion, Manchester Re