Only son of Cork-born wartime heroine Mary Elmes dies

Patrick Danjou, a former GP and father of three, lived in Perpignan in southwest France where his mother had settled there after the the Second World War

Patrick Danjou, son of Mary Elmes, at the ceremony to mark the official opening of the Cork city bridge named to honour his mother, the Mary Elmes Bridge in 2019. File picture: Brian Lougheed

Patrick Danjou, the only son of Cork-born wartime heroine Mary Elmes, has died after a long illness. He was 74.

A former GP and father of three, he lived in Perpignan in southwest France where his mother had risked her life to save hundreds of Jewish people from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War.