A Lancashire schoolboy has taken a special interest in his Great War history project, which has led to a very special journey.
Patrick Thorpe, aged 11, researched the life of an airman who fell in the Great War – Major Joseph Creuss Callaghan of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and Royal Air Force.

Major Callaghan had attended the same school as Patrick, which is Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, and was therefore documented in the Stonyhurst War Record. Patrick found from this and other sources that Major Callaghan had been shot down as he fought alone against 25 German aircraft.