tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34811178220636764262024-03-12T19:56:34.180-07:00Johnny DoyleJohnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.comBlogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-2887448112552760182023-08-17T10:10:00.004-07:002023-08-17T10:10:56.177-07:00Maxwell in Gallipoli, November 1915<p> </p><p><br /></p><p>When Kitchener visited the lines at Gallipoli in November 1915, he was accompanied by a number of other senior officers with Australian General Birdwood guiding.</p><p>Kitchener pictured in the centre with the wolly moustache, just behind General Maxwell's left shoulder. Maxwell was in charge in Egypt at the time but would find himself moved on and available in London at the time of the Easter Rising.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.keymilitary.com/article/22-yards-disaster" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1654" data-original-width="2396" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCaWe4XXSz0HZQTSasxcofeKQRqb7DYaYaI2xGltyWdppNUhmlXgPksZwdYtHct_r-dJ4lmKFr1PgEoIFYMs74VD0NTSyV6S52uA5WvTnGoV_xwq8WizIUVlruaFK_IroyMyp9NNQaQ752WfbPPLCgxZlAc7UIlu_6rjddBEainHPtCxpzadFC7-wLkBW1/w468-h324/KitchenerGallipoli.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><br /><p>Maxwell second left in this picture at the same spot in the line. Presumably no snipers operating in the area.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2015/11/100-years-ago-today-kitchener-arrives.html" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="1199" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZGRdJU7wbtbZgpZ3B6DlP2Mod9vblDzVLQ15ShPOizMghFxWmRXp0jnVvYYIPCrMeMNMFxYU29MQcrujeo3oRx5kpo0BWlEbus2mXCtYyboDN-QKiOFa-cdSqXvCDfVLALITlNJR_MJ7rj_ktTY7I2thKC6si41AY-SZgq25f0-wUx9KwZ6-nP7_yinI/w475-h352/MaxwellGallipoli.png" width="475" /></a></div><br /><p>Maxwell in the same uniform pictured in the grounds of Trinity College, Dublin for the review of the Irish Association of Volunteer Training Corps members, St John Ambulance etc in May 1916</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz6_P3RUKZbC5zRkCFRDdj6GR08d1h4-Wu0vvpYtOmUF7TILSQAUBt1LqjtoUf-TfithW2-Jx8_eqfXGBI498SavKgoFaMt2tWpIn1hUH2AmCWFvPuvRO1InXXHTNQz2RxGg70-hp36RTd47O1mo75OHa327APz0twhRWgD3u-h7_f4BP2UOzuGv1txySH/s513/Review1916.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="513" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz6_P3RUKZbC5zRkCFRDdj6GR08d1h4-Wu0vvpYtOmUF7TILSQAUBt1LqjtoUf-TfithW2-Jx8_eqfXGBI498SavKgoFaMt2tWpIn1hUH2AmCWFvPuvRO1InXXHTNQz2RxGg70-hp36RTd47O1mo75OHa327APz0twhRWgD3u-h7_f4BP2UOzuGv1txySH/w488-h293/Review1916.png" width="488" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Maxwell can also be seen in this film clip linked to the above mentioned review :</p><p><a href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060005365" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060005365</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-54270915058750391662023-08-15T07:57:00.003-07:002023-08-15T07:57:51.326-07:00Richard Todd (Actor) and Andrew Todd MC (Doctor)<p>Richard Todd gets rolled out every D-Day for his part in the operation at Pegasus Bridge and subsequent acting in the film "The Longest Day" with very little information about his family and Irish roots.</p><p>The following is a cursory run through some of the immediate family details. At some point, the Property Losses Committee website should be available again and links to claims can be added.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Richard Todd</b></p><p>Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd was born in Dublin on the 11th June 1919.</p><p>A scanned image of his birth entry isn't available but <a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/transcript-civil/9c6acc1712317?b=https%3A%2F%2Fcivilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie%2Fchurchrecords%2Fdetails-civil%2F9c6acc1712317%3Fb%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fcivilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie%252Fchurchrecords%252Fcivil-perform-search.jsp%253Fnamefm%253Drichard%2526namel%253DTodd%2526location%253D%2526yyfrom%253D1919%2526yyto%253D1919%2526type%253DB%2526submit%253DSearch" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a text version is</a>. </p><p>His mother is listed as Marvilla Todd, nee Agar-Daly; his father is listed as Captain Andrew Palethorpe Todd, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) with an address listed as "Camp, Phoenix Park".</p><p>The birth informant is listed as Emily Elizabeth Lundy with an address at 89 Lower Baggot Street. The address was a Private Nursing Home and Emily Lundy appears to have worked there.</p><p>Andrew Todd and Marvilla Agar-Daly married in <a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1915/09817/5564839.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Belfast on the 21st September 1915</a>. He was listed as Andrew William Palethorpe Todd a T(emporary) Lieutenant in the RAMC, aged 23, with an address in Dublin. She is listed with no occupation, aged 23, with an address in Belfast.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Andrew Todd</b></p><p>Andrew William Palethorpe Todd was born in <a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1892/02337/1874406.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dublin on the 6th July 1892</a>. The address listed was 16 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin. His father Andrew Todd (1854- 1920) is listed as a Barrister; his mother is listed as Ellen nee Palethorpe.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1901 Census</b></p><p><a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Fitzwilliam/Hatch_Street_Lower/1306720/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Fitzwilliam/Hatch_Street_Lower/1306720/</a></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>1911 Census</b></p><p><a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Donnybrook/Simmonscourt/43616/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Donnybrook/Simmonscourt/43616/</a></p><p>18 years old and a student of medicine. Listed with his mother and two servants. The sister is not present.</p><p>His father is in Dungannon on the night of the census</p><p><a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tyrone/Dungannon/Georges_Street__South_Side/868419/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Tyrone/Dungannon/Georges_Street__South_Side/868419/</a></p><p>The father died 16th June 1920. His <a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1920/05124/4410228.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">death is registered</a> as being in Ivanhoe Private Hospital (this was on Lansdowne Road, Dublin). The informant was Henry Kenny with an address of 36 Westland Row. </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Rugby</b></p><p>Prior to WW1, Andrew Todd played Rugby for Ireland, facing Wales once and France twice in the 1913-1914 season.</p><p><a href="http://en.espn.co.uk/ireland/rugby/player/2394.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.espn.co.uk/ireland/rugby/player/2394.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Medical Studies</b></p><p>He appears to have studied medicine in Trinity College Dublin and to have graduated in 1915.</p><p>He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps as a <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29302/supplement/9301" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Temporary Lieutentant on the 25th August 1915</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Easter Rising</b></p><p>Not too sure if Andrew Todd was in Dublin at the time of the Easter Rising but he and the family do have a number of claims in to the Property Losses Committee for items lost in the Metropole Hotel and he appears to have signed an October 1916 dated document relating to one of the wounded members of the Irish Association of Volunteers Training Corps.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUwkVdqEP6T-MFcX2f77hDbVNoGfSKHsa1o_NI9Q_E3a7wamY3zFa4wGkjlAbQ2cTrBkkdtXe3ecn1yfEiAFZ_TTGYTQYD-AKRQ_JTQWO5f19jQ75sxfwfB-wX9m_8nYHRF-en-Aumewzpv2SrywnT7ClFuYR6P3Shxc8e3FfkDMkrcHkr6ors265jAhd0/s4096/HorneTodd.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="2588" height="483" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUwkVdqEP6T-MFcX2f77hDbVNoGfSKHsa1o_NI9Q_E3a7wamY3zFa4wGkjlAbQ2cTrBkkdtXe3ecn1yfEiAFZ_TTGYTQYD-AKRQ_JTQWO5f19jQ75sxfwfB-wX9m_8nYHRF-en-Aumewzpv2SrywnT7ClFuYR6P3Shxc8e3FfkDMkrcHkr6ors265jAhd0/w305-h483/HorneTodd.png" width="305" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>World War 1</b></p><p>Todd was posted to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) and to have landed in the theatre of war in October 1915.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_YZpzbQ4jQNrKGrDXsAYzihKcplhx3mKwVpmHhdc-4KqTuiQaKHCCEFzsZNpov8U8WPznU7UnsJNE8eL0RyJes1hdXP3vFyaJ3xgv5h_dBorgJOKn65kY6DfheDg_u_DpePzf3xmPYoiy8ONZt_wvI8WLecD-93L2vdln4u-Rk6NB2sHmgU_p8gt5vrPW/s826/ToddMIC.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="826" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_YZpzbQ4jQNrKGrDXsAYzihKcplhx3mKwVpmHhdc-4KqTuiQaKHCCEFzsZNpov8U8WPznU7UnsJNE8eL0RyJes1hdXP3vFyaJ3xgv5h_dBorgJOKn65kY6DfheDg_u_DpePzf3xmPYoiy8ONZt_wvI8WLecD-93L2vdln4u-Rk6NB2sHmgU_p8gt5vrPW/w444-h304/ToddMIC.png" width="444" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p>He was awarded his Military Cross (MC) for bravery while under fire with the award appearing in the <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30950/supplement/12092" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">London Gazette in October 1918</a> with his rank as Temporary Captain. No details of the unit he was with or the location of the action; still to find when he was promoted to Temporary Captain.</p><p><br /></p><p>In May 1919, he <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31328/supplement/5734" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">relinquished the rank of Acting Major</a> and became a Temporary Captain having been noted as a <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31351/supplement/6346" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Temporary Major from February 1918</a> (but not for the purposes of pay).</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>World War 2</b></p><p>Andrew Todd was a Major in the RAMC when he died in March 1942 at the age of just 49.</p><p><a href="https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2929214/andrew-william-palethorpe-todd/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2929214/andrew-william-palethorpe-todd/</a></p><p>His obituary fills in some of the details of his life between WW1 and WW2.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrU8wsULjH6Ly2h2R6TFiKV1ZEFHad9XSBLv-Z1G_V1ojNWF18atDnXr8yV31BBGpt8C_PrNZg5OBhUcBkZrRo1uM4ZBK8q80UlvFNTVChaJUPbqAscmI2qxG0OFWW2Og__cGNaOSUHC9grEmBK4AmU5CFHtwI6s1jWrBYDgDomWOz24tLTpfx7Q3GmOuI/s424/MajorToddMCdeath.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="424" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrU8wsULjH6Ly2h2R6TFiKV1ZEFHad9XSBLv-Z1G_V1ojNWF18atDnXr8yV31BBGpt8C_PrNZg5OBhUcBkZrRo1uM4ZBK8q80UlvFNTVChaJUPbqAscmI2qxG0OFWW2Og__cGNaOSUHC9grEmBK4AmU5CFHtwI6s1jWrBYDgDomWOz24tLTpfx7Q3GmOuI/w552-h389/MajorToddMCdeath.jpg" width="552" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-92051028691373311292023-08-11T04:20:00.001-07:002023-08-11T04:20:52.907-07:00Dublin Cricketers 1905<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
<a href="https://universitytimes.ie/2020/04/college-classics-australias-cricketers-come-to-town-and-defeat-trinity/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">familiar postcard</a> came up on the-salesroom auction site a short while ago
titled:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>‘AUSTRALIANS
V DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ELEVEN (PAST AND PRESENT), JUNE 1905’. MONO POSTALLY UNUSED’</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMcgZ-iPbTHaOQ_mifsygUnfQ8pxxGle1naBuehlaBd91UTZ2-CeF_jN9pLyfVm7HZu-RItIC06PoGN2qqa0TX2tGv_BfbOmZkJ6n2STe9LBmbGU_0DgRgHdwKGv2bhd02iAsJKT1OC_nvf26OsVAh8tvFWQ5-W2ttnTnU8oFv_k4uaX8sUznKka6VcTZ/s1000/Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="1000" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXMcgZ-iPbTHaOQ_mifsygUnfQ8pxxGle1naBuehlaBd91UTZ2-CeF_jN9pLyfVm7HZu-RItIC06PoGN2qqa0TX2tGv_BfbOmZkJ6n2STe9LBmbGU_0DgRgHdwKGv2bhd02iAsJKT1OC_nvf26OsVAh8tvFWQ5-W2ttnTnU8oFv_k4uaX8sUznKka6VcTZ/w529-h345/Photo.jpg" width="529" /></a></div><br /><o:p><br /></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/knights-sporting-auctions/catalogue-id-srkn10044/lot-bf726dff-e882-4907-9a9c-b0430138b3eb">https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/knights-sporting-auctions/catalogue-id-srkn10044/lot-bf726dff-e882-4907-9a9c-b0430138b3eb</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I thought my
bid of £20 was way too much. Hard to believe that the winning bid was £80 for a
postcard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The character
I recognised immediately by sight was F H Browning (President of the Irish
Rugby Football Union and commander of the IRFU Volunteer Training Corps when shot
on the first day of the Easter Rising). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The second
character recognised by initial/surname was R M Gwynn who I had researched a
good few years ago re his role in helping set up the Irish Citizen Army
following the Lockout of 1913.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The offices of
the photographer and the printer both suffered damage during the Easter Rising.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The other
names were not familiar so a bit of cursory research was warranted to see who the above
two were mixing with.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">P A
Meldon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Philip Albert
Meldon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Born 18<sup>th</sup>
December 1874, Dublin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Died 8<sup>th</sup>
April 1942, London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Meldon">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Meldon</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Meldon appears
to have been in the British Army at the time of the photo, having served during
the 2<sup>nd</sup> Anglo Boer War.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the 1911
census, he is recorded as a visitor to Colonel Duncan Carter, Royal Artillery,
in Sunningdale, Berkshire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Landed in
France in November 1914 with the Royal Field Artillery. Served through WW1 and
awarded a DSO.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">H H
Corley<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Henry
Hagarty Corley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Born 20<sup>th</sup>
November 1878 at 30 Lower Baggot street, Dublin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Died 30th January 1936 in London, England</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">His father,
Anthony Hagarty Corley, appears to have been a surgeon. His mother was Eleanor
nee Purdon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Corley’s brother
Anthony was killed in Gallipoli serving with the Australian forces on the 17<sup>th</sup>
September 1915.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/zc77ss20m">https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/zc77ss20m</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/606287/anthony-purden-hegarty-corley/">https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/606287/anthony-purden-hegarty-corley/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">E Ensor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ernest Ensor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Born 17<sup>th</sup>
December 1870 in Cheltenham, England.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Died 13<sup>th</sup>
August 1929 in Cork, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Listed in
Tipperary as a Professor in the 1901 census for Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tipperary/Tipperary_Town/Collegeland/1719898/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Tipperary/Tipperary_Town/Collegeland/1719898/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Listed as
Erson in the 1911 census in Cork in the 1911 census of Ireland, a School
Inspector<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Cork_No__6_Urban/Morrisons_Quay/394190/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Cork_No__6_Urban/Morrisons_Quay/394190/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A L Leeper</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Arthur
Lindsay Leeper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Born 19<sup>th</sup>
May 1883, Dublin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Died 16<sup>th</sup>
February 1942, Huddersfield, England<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Served with
the YMCA during WW1 initially and then as a Chaplain in the British Army.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Settled in
Huddersfield and wrote “A History of Huddersfield Parish Church”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">J T Gwynn<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John Tudor
Gwynn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Born 13<sup>th</sup>
November 1881 in Ramelton, Co Donegal, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Died 17<sup>th</sup>
May 1956 in Bangor, Co Down, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tudor_Gwynn">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tudor_Gwynn</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Worked in
the Indian Civil Service, as a journalist and then as the headmaster of a
school in Dublin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">S D Lambert<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Septimus
Drummond Lambert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Born 3<sup>rd</sup>
August 1876 in Dublin, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Died 21<sup>st</sup>
April 1959 in Dublin, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sep_Lambert">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sep_Lambert</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He is listed
in the 1901 census of Ireland as a Law Student and living with his parents etc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Rathmines/Rathmines_Road/1297507/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Rathmines/Rathmines_Road/1297507/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the 1911
census he is in Rathmines with his wife and family and listed as a solicitor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Rathmines___Rathgar_West/Rathgar_Road/54483/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Rathmines___Rathgar_West/Rathgar_Road/54483/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">During King
Edward VII’s visit to Dublin in 1903, Lambert’s father was called upon to do a
post mortem on the King’s dog<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Drummond_Lambert">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Drummond_Lambert</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C R
Faussett</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Charles
Reginald Fausset</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Born 6<sup>th</sup>
January 1880 in Waterford, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Died 3<sup>rd</sup>
May 1915 in Belgium<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fausset-71">https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fausset-71</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">listed as
Reginald in the 1901 census of Ireland, living in Dublin with the family<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Donnybrook/Simmonscourt/1284391/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Donnybrook/Simmonscourt/1284391/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1612076/charles-reginald-fausset/">https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1612076/charles-reginald-fausset/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rev T A Harvey</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thomas
Arnold Harvey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Harvey">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Harvey</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Born 17<sup>th</sup>
April 1878, Dublin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Died 25<sup>th</sup>
December 1966, Dublin. Buried in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reputed to
have caught and bowled W G Grace for a duck. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He is listed
as a student in Trinity College, Dublin in the 1901 census (R M Gwynn also
listed)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Trinity/Trinity_College/1312073/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Trinity/Trinity_College/1312073/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He was still
in Dublin in 1906 as the Captain of the 10<sup>th</sup> Company of the Boy’s Brigade,
while curate at St Stephen’s in Mount Street, Dublin (aka The Pepper Canister)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He appears
to have been in Sligo in 1908 based on a letter from Jack Butler Yeats<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.morganodriscoll.com/art/jack-butler-yeats-illustrated-letter-from-jack-butler-yeats-to-thomas-arnold-harvey-10th-october-c1908/41578">https://www.morganodriscoll.com/art/jack-butler-yeats-illustrated-letter-from-jack-butler-yeats-to-thomas-arnold-harvey-10th-october-c1908/41578</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He is in
Sligo for the 1911 census of Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Lissadill_East/Ballinfull/753518/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Lissadill_East/Ballinfull/753518/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A photograph
of him in his role as Anglican Bishop of Cashel and Waterford is in the
National Portrait Gallery collection</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw220473/Thomas-Arnold-Harvey">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw220473/Thomas-Arnold-Harvey</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Harvey’s
brother Frederick appears to have been a sportsman and won a Victoria Cross
while serving with the Canadians in WW1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Maurice_Watson_Harvey">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Maurice_Watson_Harvey</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By
coincidence, I was at a showing of Ashley Morrison's documentary "<a href="https://allevents.in/mobile/amp-event.php?event_id=200024000669246" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark Our Place</a>" re the 3 Rugby VCs at Wootton
Bassett Rugby Club earlier this year and did not make the connection until
reviewing the Wikipedia page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">J E Lynch</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Joseph
Edward Lynch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Born 26<sup>th</sup>
April 1880 in Monkstown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Died 25<sup>th</sup>
September 1915 in France<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lynch_(cricketer)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lynch_(cricketer)</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/conor2.htm">http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/conor2.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Killed while
serving as a Captain in the 10</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/734560/joseph-edward-lynch/">https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/734560/joseph-edward-lynch/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-80648652951737150862023-08-10T11:48:00.001-07:002023-08-10T11:48:10.169-07:00(John) Gordon Lewis - this “adventurous cameraman”<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Facing representatives of the Irish film industry in the Odeon room of Dublin’s
Metropole cinema in October 1950 were a number of Irish politicians and Dublin born impresario
<a href="https://www.louiselliman.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Louis Elliman</a>. </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQmJ4yCzxPM6u35IL_XlzI-0GkCWSc7NI3XkT1YSL6_lD3Vgp8cgqK09Rk1s7m1wi3G70UCVTlsrmjNQ7LRupNuDyv-rC1o-chWWdFakkWBt5tigtm7PvPD5hqTaxXKDywZR2PRr47W4RDQOw1aNh9JzoKAYwjbwI0JqUgrLXl3qw0mdZbbXTlNHNfcIn-/s599/retire.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="599" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQmJ4yCzxPM6u35IL_XlzI-0GkCWSc7NI3XkT1YSL6_lD3Vgp8cgqK09Rk1s7m1wi3G70UCVTlsrmjNQ7LRupNuDyv-rC1o-chWWdFakkWBt5tigtm7PvPD5hqTaxXKDywZR2PRr47W4RDQOw1aNh9JzoKAYwjbwI0JqUgrLXl3qw0mdZbbXTlNHNfcIn-/w418-h240/retire.png" width="418" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Gathered together to acknowledge the retirement and contribution of Antrim born (John) Gordon
Lewis, Elliman described Lewis as a gentleman, cameraman, film renter and as “a
chapter of modern Irish history” who he first encountered while Lewis was
scrambling around the rubble of the 1916 Easter Rising capturing the aftermath on
film. The Metropole itself had been reduced to rubble during the Rising (which would lead to damage claims from the family of Dublin born actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Todd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Palethorpe Todd</a>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Lewis’s
chapter closed on 14th April 1954. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #202124;">Death notices appeared the following day to
announce his passing, confirming his address in Clontarf, and his time with
Pathe Pictures Ltd. The Belfast Telegraph later acknowledged the passing
of “an Ulsterman” and their former employee.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #202124; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Little information subsequently surfaced
about Gordon Lewis until an RTE documentary in 1993 and then a few items re early Irish
cinema that acknowledge Lewis’s role, though hi</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">s film clips did underpin the monumental 1950's works </span><a href="https://ifi.ie/film/mise-eire/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Mise Eire</a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"> and </span><a href="https://ifi.ie/film/saoirse/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Saoirse</a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The Irish Film Institute (IFI) recently
completed a great project - <a href="https://ifiarchiveplayer.ie/independencefilms/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Irish Independence Film Collection</a> - to bring many Irish films clips back to Ireland from
the UK, to give them a “digital clean”, and to add an Irish context. I don’t think (John) Gordon Lewis gets a mention sadly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit;">Many people interested in Irish history
will be very familiar with the film clips Lewis created that now sit on the IFI website, on Pathe’s website and in the Irish Air Corps DVD "On Golden Wings" even if they do not know his name or
background. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigMrmsrwoewPFrjSG9HQP1Y5O38C7ypcV2wpTvjiRIuFRzecoCuiCxCeAUdMlIFy_kiSE4vHf7o8NTPw73TnfQCUlyjrqiW52QGXpPf3vV8tYU2bgoCztWPcYfOJgBcbBPk803i5Rm3tjPCbEbso5iXJ7Ydtb288-QKpPdUwy5wx9dM6_5IckjuDQI3fy_/s2060/IMG_4553.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2060" data-original-width="1601" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigMrmsrwoewPFrjSG9HQP1Y5O38C7ypcV2wpTvjiRIuFRzecoCuiCxCeAUdMlIFy_kiSE4vHf7o8NTPw73TnfQCUlyjrqiW52QGXpPf3vV8tYU2bgoCztWPcYfOJgBcbBPk803i5Rm3tjPCbEbso5iXJ7Ydtb288-QKpPdUwy5wx9dM6_5IckjuDQI3fy_/s320/IMG_4553.jpg" width="249" /></span></a></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-15819612488468171692022-05-10T23:57:00.001-07:002022-05-10T23:57:06.079-07:00Post Rising Irish Volunteer casualties from Frongoch, Lewes etc prisons<p> Lyn Ebenezer's book "Frongoch and the birth of the IRA" gives details of the following casualties from Frongoch :</p><p><br /></p><p>Maurice Fitzsimons : appendicitis at Frongoch but recovered after poor treatment. Survived and active in WoI.</p><p>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99502184/maurice-fitzsimons</p><p><br /></p><p>(Edward) Tierney (aka Edward Douglas Turnley) : Breakdown. </p><p>https://treasonfelony.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/but-eire-our-eire-shall-be-free-edward-tierney-belfast-and-1916/</p><p>Born London in 1890.</p><p>1901 census in Ashford, Staines.</p><p>Death as Edward Turnley December 1920 aged 30 :</p><p> https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1920/05108/4403786.pdf</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY99rc_0stwynmA1gFUq98AU_EpH8brJODJbgMNiM6hqt86Bj9Qj4Zk7xJHD-1LeP0QbHw3n-pnFNfyGcCc40_psYyKlehk6W0zVl817fiB6tKOMn7UhFIGA4aHERZkYGHADqRutENvS1Y/s719/probate.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="719" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY99rc_0stwynmA1gFUq98AU_EpH8brJODJbgMNiM6hqt86Bj9Qj4Zk7xJHD-1LeP0QbHw3n-pnFNfyGcCc40_psYyKlehk6W0zVl817fiB6tKOMn7UhFIGA4aHERZkYGHADqRutENvS1Y/w536-h102/probate.png" width="536" /></a></div>Married Sybil C Stewart in Lambeth, Q4 1911.<br /><p><br /></p><p>Christopher Brady from Dublin : contracted TB and died 2 months after release</p><p>Jack O'Reilly : suffered acute anaemia and died in 1917</p><p>Thomas Stokes of Enniscorthy : died of an illness caught at Frongoch</p><p>William Halpin of Dublin ; tried to slit his own throat; committed to Grangegorman where he later died</p><p><br /></p><p>Daniel Devitt escaped 4th August 1916 and was found wandering the Welsh countryside. He had suffered a breakdown and walked out of camp unchallenged rather than trying to escape.</p><p>Mention is made of a Padraic O' Maille escaping with help from a girl but it appears he may have been moved to another location.</p><p>Dr Peters, the local doctor who visited the camp, took his own life on 14th December 1916.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lorcan Collins book "1916 The Rising Handbook" lists :</p><p>Christopher Brady died from pneumonia 28th January 1917</p><p>Joseph Byrne, released July 1916; died 17th March 1917</p><p>Bernard Courtney. Imprisoned Frongoch; died 20th March 1917</p><p>John Cullen, imprisoned Portland and Lewes rather than Frongoch. Died 29th May 1918 aged 21</p><p>John Halpin. Suffered depression and died in Grangegorman Asylum in 1917</p><p>Bernard MacCormack. On hunger strike in Frongoch. Released Christmas 1916. Died 2nd April 1918 aged 21</p><p>Bernard Mackin. Shot at College of Surgeons. Died 22nd December 1919</p><p>William O'Brien from Galbally, Died Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital 28th November 1916. Released August 1916</p><p>Frank Sheridan. Died 20th November 1916 after ill treatment in prison.</p><p>Liam Staines. Wounded in the Rising. Imprisoned Frongoch. Died 2nd November 1918</p><p>Thomas Stokes. Released from Frongoch Christmas 1916. Died 29th September 1917 aged 24.</p><p>John Wallace, noted as died in Frongoch 14th March 1917. Need to follow up on this item as Frongoch would be closed for Irish prisoners in December 1916 and open again for German PoWs.</p><p>Bernard MacCartan Ward. Died in Wandsworth Prison, London 8th May 1917. Buried in Latlurcan Cemetery, Monaghan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eunan O'Halpin and Daithi O Corrain's book "The Dead of the Irish Revolution" list the following :</p><p>Jack O'Reilly from Tralee, Co Kerry. Arrested and held in Wandsworth and Frongoch. Released in July 1916. Died 30th September 1916 from "pernicious anaemia".</p><p>Christopher Brady. Imprisoned in Wandsworth and Frongoch. Released in November 1916 due to ill health. Died in Dublin 24th January 1917 from pneumonia.</p><p>Bernard Ward. A member of 4th Bn, Dublin. Imprisoned in Wandsworth. Died from prison related illness 8th May 1917. Buried in Latlurcan Cemetery, Co Monaghan.</p><p>William Partridge fought in College of Surgeons. Died two months after being released from Lewes prison on medical grounds.</p><p>Thomas Joseph Stokes, Enniscorthy. Died 29th Sept 1917. Imprisoned Stafford, Knutsford and Wandsworth before Frongoch. Released Christmas 1916.</p><p>William Staines (aka Liam, brother of Michael) died 2nd November 1918. Wounded in the Rising, his death was attributed by the authorities to influenza and septicaemia rather than imprisonment</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Would be interested if anyone else has any more to add.</p><p><br /></p>Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-77528926256198215232022-05-09T02:59:00.002-07:002022-05-09T02:59:26.990-07:002nd (Garrison) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment<p> Formed in Dublin in March 1916, there doesn't appear to be too much information regarding 2nd (Garrison) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. It appears to have been designated for Home Service.</p><p>The Long, Long Trail website indicates it remained in Dublin until April 1918 where it's name was changed and it went to France</p><p>https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/royal-irish-regiment/</p><p><br /></p><p>Soldiers started joining the unit on the 11th March 1916 with a cadre of NCOs and soldiers, numbers being assigned with 2G/ as the prefix. Number 2G/1 went to CSM Arthur Marshall, a Londoner born on 29th April 1967, who joined from the Royal Irish Rifles. Most of the names listed below appear to have joined from the Royal Irih Rifles.</p><p><br /></p><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="146"></col><col width="120"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"No"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">No</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Rank"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Rank</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Forename"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Forename</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Surname"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Surname</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/1"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/1</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"CSM"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">CSM</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Arthur Woodriffe"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Arthur Woodriffe</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Marshall"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Marshall</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/4"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/4</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"RSM"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">RSM</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Joseph"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Joseph</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Sullivan"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sullivan</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/7"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/7</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"CQMS"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">CQMS</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Robert"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Robert</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Gamble"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Gamble</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/8"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/8</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Sgt"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Sgt</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Patrick Joseph"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Patrick Joseph</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Houston"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Houston</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/16"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/16</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Cpl"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Cpl</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Richard"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Richard</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Waide"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Waide</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/17"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/17</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"William"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">William</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Neill"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Neill</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/18"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/18</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"L/Sgt"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">L/Sgt</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"John"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">John</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Crossley"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Crossley</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/21"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/21</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A/Cpl"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">A/Cpl</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Charles"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Charles</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Graham"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Graham</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/22"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/22</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"L/Sgt"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">L/Sgt</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"William Richard"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">William Richard</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Young"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Young</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/44"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/44</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Pte"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Pte</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Patrick"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Patrick</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Carroll"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Carroll</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/47"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/47</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Pte"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Pte</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Robert"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Robert</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Doyle"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Doyle</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/51"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/51</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Pte"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Pte</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"William"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">William</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Davis"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Davis</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/60"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/60</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Pte"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Pte</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Robert"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Robert</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Flaherty"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Flaherty</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/73"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/73</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Pte"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Pte</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"William"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">William</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hughes"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Hughes</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />2G/7 CQMS Robert Gamble was a Dubliner. Killed during the Easter Rising near Beggar's Bush Barracks on the railway line.<div><br /></div><div>We can assume that most of the above were in Dublin at the time of the Rising, though the Battalion is not listed in the various books that give details of the units present on 24th April.</div><div><br /></div><div>Privates Waters and Flynn mentioned as injured/killed at the Magazine Fort do not appear to have been assigned 2G/ numbers. </div><div><br /></div><div>Henry Agnew appeard to have joined the unit on the 15th April and assigned the number 2G/646.</div><div><br /></div><div><google-sheets-html-origin><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="146"></col><col width="120"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"2G/646"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">2G/646<br /></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Henry"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Henry</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Agnew"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Agnew</td></tr></tbody></table><br />It does raise the question of how many men of this unit were in Dublin at the time of the Rising, what were they doing on Day 1 and what did they do on subsequent days. Were there others like Flynn and Waters who did not have 2G/ numbers.</google-sheets-html-origin></div><div><google-sheets-html-origin><br /></google-sheets-html-origin></div><div><google-sheets-html-origin>The unit Commanding Officer appears to have been </google-sheets-html-origin><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Lt. Colonel Sir Frederick W. Shaw, D.S.O. who made his way to Beggar's Bush Barracks at the start of the Rising (he had been in command of the Ulster Volunteer Force aligned 2nd Bn, Loyal Dublin Volunteers in the run up to WW1).</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">2nd Lt Edward Gerrard, Royal Field Artillery, arrived in Beggar's Bush Barracks on the 24th April and noted that 2nd (Garrison) Bn, Royal Irish Regiment men were there :</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">one or two ranker officers (promoted from the ranks)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">4 NCO's</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">10 men (including 3 invalids)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I had read somewhere about the unit possibly being at Richmond Barracks - possibly in conjunction with the research on Flynn and Waters or re the death of 2G/213 Pte James Cavanagh, from Co Monaghan, who looks to have been killed in the South Dublin Union area (another former Royal Irish Rifles soldier)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/899910/james-cavanagh/</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The UK Soldiers Died in the Great War has Cavanagh as died in Gallipoli. More likely he was wounded in Gallipoli and that was the reason for his transfer in Dublin.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><google-sheets-html-origin><br /></google-sheets-html-origin></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibesv3-OvgNTcc7lTj6pUyrVmklNE1s3DFZfR08BvwblEMoi3KaK_ZmdaFd4nIjjoHaVqEON0y30YhDoSXcuB-aDjgIMmAuyd24wETi9YUXDYR7x40KoS6c_hGCR39tSgMbGiHia6YKUpMEMqk0_UlY-btYnrUWJUeJuC6yCfns4ng0OER30hh5edP6Q/s1920/soldiers%20effects.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="903" data-original-width="1920" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibesv3-OvgNTcc7lTj6pUyrVmklNE1s3DFZfR08BvwblEMoi3KaK_ZmdaFd4nIjjoHaVqEON0y30YhDoSXcuB-aDjgIMmAuyd24wETi9YUXDYR7x40KoS6c_hGCR39tSgMbGiHia6YKUpMEMqk0_UlY-btYnrUWJUeJuC6yCfns4ng0OER30hh5edP6Q/w593-h280/soldiers%20effects.png" width="593" /></a></div><br /><google-sheets-html-origin><br /></google-sheets-html-origin></div><div><google-sheets-html-origin><br /></google-sheets-html-origin></div><div><google-sheets-html-origin><br /></google-sheets-html-origin></div><div><google-sheets-html-origin>Officers identified as being with the Battalion at some stage are :</google-sheets-html-origin></div><div><google-sheets-html-origin><br /></google-sheets-html-origin></div><div><google-sheets-html-origin><google-sheets-html-origin><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="146"></col><col width="120"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Rank"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Rank</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Forename"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Forename</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Surname"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Surname</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Captain"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Captain</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Thomas"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Thomas</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Powell"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Powell</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Captain"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Captain</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Edward Francis Nathaniel"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Edward Francis Nathaniel</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Burton"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Burton</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Lt"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Lt</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Morgan"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Morgan</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Captain"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Captain</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"F R"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">F R</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Robinson"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;">Robinson<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><p>A few details of their service but nothing re role in the Rising yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2nd Garrison Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers was also formed in Dublin around April 1916. This appears to have not been for Home Service - moved to Templemore in May 1916 and then sent overseas.</p><p>Private Joseph Cullen from this unit appears to have been killed in Dublin on the 25th April 1916</p><p>https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/899969/joseph-cullen/</p><p><br /></p><p>He appears to have been a pre-war soldier and entered France on 8th October 1914 with 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, number 4550.</p></div>Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-72806195900419351522022-05-08T13:54:00.004-07:002022-05-08T13:55:36.680-07:00Magazine Fort Casualties, Royal Irish Regiment<p> During the attack on the Magazine Fort on the opening day of the Rising, Monday 24th April 1916, the sentry at the gate was overpowered without shots being fired.</p><p>This looks to have been Private John Waters, no 9901, 2nd (Garrison) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment.</p><p>His service records mentions the attack and notes his time in hospital.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="1242" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcvSBY-4-JYezC38IHuUw-MQ9yXE4Uvz8g53Txcazm7G_g5mtP6mxlC9KCKo0t2Lj3D81C5YKVapIklcMXGRUGrOlCTd186Z1JEVfvbqaDN6pRHbxEJCwZ717Z-xFUGlhjmffGBi5wQ6PMyVmw8yFemIVmfsx67XOhO_CAPVvAdi2WmuNrnU3OkY9hHA/w661-h101/hospital1916.png" width="661" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He appears in a newspaper Roll of Honour from May 1916 but does not appear in the 1916 Rebellion Handbook among the list of wounded from the Royal Irish Regiment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_U9h5pKfKTyP6Iy4KBZj1ULVIEcMfFyu4DMJOyOadJANxNLrH9OcWvl9kaxcawar1jRg-CTULRL5bVaW61PX_ZCVVr-GIBOFOknn_STLEnUUO0OfWOti1clbYRP1eEDyTjZatE019o36g7wmDeDI2SLjvk9LLa7O5sV_0GokFxI7eUvf4V1ikxokzbA/s527/RoH%204th%20May%201916.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="469" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_U9h5pKfKTyP6Iy4KBZj1ULVIEcMfFyu4DMJOyOadJANxNLrH9OcWvl9kaxcawar1jRg-CTULRL5bVaW61PX_ZCVVr-GIBOFOknn_STLEnUUO0OfWOti1clbYRP1eEDyTjZatE019o36g7wmDeDI2SLjvk9LLa7O5sV_0GokFxI7eUvf4V1ikxokzbA/s320/RoH%204th%20May%201916.png" width="285" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>He appears to have joined up while in a spot of bother in Co Wexford (he had previous service in the Royal Navy so a surprise that he joined the Army)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVTORAs7j80c3Q4BrbygJv7XsetiTjz9aD6IZf1G_tCVKmj62aVMfeCqB6QeRLvpW0S7mlQO5olOIfMohtrPBvA0e6LmjZU-MRYqMY9M2xk51sRecLR6DWQMpRrXRnk7uU7_1x534oiEtQGcHi8MOoRThZu0K2hIc6KgNHtYEIQ_lf3Cr5FcF6xHE2A/s1266/17thDec1915.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="1266" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVTORAs7j80c3Q4BrbygJv7XsetiTjz9aD6IZf1G_tCVKmj62aVMfeCqB6QeRLvpW0S7mlQO5olOIfMohtrPBvA0e6LmjZU-MRYqMY9M2xk51sRecLR6DWQMpRrXRnk7uU7_1x534oiEtQGcHi8MOoRThZu0K2hIc6KgNHtYEIQ_lf3Cr5FcF6xHE2A/w555-h129/17thDec1915.png" width="555" /></a></div><br /><p>He was discharged from the Army in June 1916 so may have had to face the above prosecution.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUjHhbuUKT35WZ-W8G_rnEqozNtl8TvfjplYtlzTD7vhEBGNPxjRmtsWcU8VsOxK0pFkjtihnNPXbDLDBPKwCo5q4smZ0nBdrt2ARTa8BONopZlK2dY8_ROdGGPIbWymQp3xQtF8le7Ic7zf9VY15qvHt2crpCwzEkormaHY5_UUf15mX5nLOSJBymcQ/s1335/SWB.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="105" data-original-width="1335" height="51" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUjHhbuUKT35WZ-W8G_rnEqozNtl8TvfjplYtlzTD7vhEBGNPxjRmtsWcU8VsOxK0pFkjtihnNPXbDLDBPKwCo5q4smZ0nBdrt2ARTa8BONopZlK2dY8_ROdGGPIbWymQp3xQtF8le7Ic7zf9VY15qvHt2crpCwzEkormaHY5_UUf15mX5nLOSJBymcQ/w646-h51/SWB.png" width="646" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>His number, 9901, does not appear to have been issued by the newly formed 2nd (Garrison) Battalion.</p><p>The attack happened on his birthday, 24th April. He was born 24th April 1876 in Duncannon, the son of John and Mary Waters.</p><p>https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1876/03053/2119472.pdf</p><p><br /></p><p>Inside the Magazine Fort, one sentry was shot in the leg.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh01ySJeHFgdfg0fsLN0uRY2_sY6Sr-FJeoUbVGeHNhmyqwakDiEHU_k5QSOMEjpVS-1mCJjqWjOYBtAxRJE3Vc4qYn7nD8vqZr96yEO1jOl9eH087lq5iDjwxsEDbdIb1xFj3tY-EDCTID2oqeebP4Umb8dvgwAx0oAsuMeIW0wouvKPudMmtBop9UUQ/s911/WS220PatrickDalyPage8.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="911" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh01ySJeHFgdfg0fsLN0uRY2_sY6Sr-FJeoUbVGeHNhmyqwakDiEHU_k5QSOMEjpVS-1mCJjqWjOYBtAxRJE3Vc4qYn7nD8vqZr96yEO1jOl9eH087lq5iDjwxsEDbdIb1xFj3tY-EDCTID2oqeebP4Umb8dvgwAx0oAsuMeIW0wouvKPudMmtBop9UUQ/s320/WS220PatrickDalyPage8.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBtQBWWjin_hFuXMBZl6qPfB19Lnt1YdH5RPXNZstX3VYXIR3jcXe4Xg-p0X_7UkECD_2qkdzqTfcFgy73B6jsM_yS32c_UXk7VSSseAHsNjIwBX0whGiP8tzFKdDs0S8zNFETbI_JFO84eQpDOzdz02n6fBCDoc9u_bTm1BxgBQNZ-b_n04-c1yb3Ig/s799/WS592EamonMartinPage3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="799" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBtQBWWjin_hFuXMBZl6qPfB19Lnt1YdH5RPXNZstX3VYXIR3jcXe4Xg-p0X_7UkECD_2qkdzqTfcFgy73B6jsM_yS32c_UXk7VSSseAHsNjIwBX0whGiP8tzFKdDs0S8zNFETbI_JFO84eQpDOzdz02n6fBCDoc9u_bTm1BxgBQNZ-b_n04-c1yb3Ig/s320/WS592EamonMartinPage3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>This looks to have been Private John Flynn, no 8786, 2nd (Garrison) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. This number does not appear to be one issued by the 2nd (Garrison) Battalion.</p><p>Flynn died in June 1916 as a result of an issue with his femoral artery.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitDmh-pVngmeHZCwFMyKSLxhdmX0lkWZTu4_IgKVt9mcsTb75DkQatcrUBSO4q6JIVA4xMXWnZRKVMKI04hp9KpJZ54WN6A18ZtFhkX4ZsDN_QUUQtRgtKPSiuoMr0-ePsIZyOJrh9bf_1hoCV1rmWTppbm25kbkd87zSzDfrG4a7MVHXz5blh2hmDTg/s1507/John%20Flynn%208786%20RoyalIrishRegt.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1507" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitDmh-pVngmeHZCwFMyKSLxhdmX0lkWZTu4_IgKVt9mcsTb75DkQatcrUBSO4q6JIVA4xMXWnZRKVMKI04hp9KpJZ54WN6A18ZtFhkX4ZsDN_QUUQtRgtKPSiuoMr0-ePsIZyOJrh9bf_1hoCV1rmWTppbm25kbkd87zSzDfrG4a7MVHXz5blh2hmDTg/w530-h244/John%20Flynn%208786%20RoyalIrishRegt.png" width="530" /></a></div><br /><p>The Edward Quinn who appears a few lines down from Flynn is my Gt Gt Grandfather. This was an unexpected find while researching Flynn.</p><p>Flynn appears to have tried to enlist in the Army in 1915 but discharged as not likely to make an efficient soldier. He had a wife and a rake of kids sadly.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIlSwhioHobZjSZwyBNelG_TexNBX0C4MG21_0CWSfqnMBkEkvhe1EsMTBTViSj60xV394NC0LIAVpb-3586AMT2eh2ZxEHxVKFLwCM93fYrTFgawbhJz2E3FyCTuox8un57nqu17kzbLYIJiGN4-oyi2KL3rkBRQ2MtJmmqaN8TE4ig2oNX4HTSHlg/s1391/1915AttestationPaper.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1391" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIlSwhioHobZjSZwyBNelG_TexNBX0C4MG21_0CWSfqnMBkEkvhe1EsMTBTViSj60xV394NC0LIAVpb-3586AMT2eh2ZxEHxVKFLwCM93fYrTFgawbhJz2E3FyCTuox8un57nqu17kzbLYIJiGN4-oyi2KL3rkBRQ2MtJmmqaN8TE4ig2oNX4HTSHlg/w504-h284/1915AttestationPaper.png" width="504" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DNBpkS43a41eOdebKn_t4j6WcFzwTkPlFbFL3r0-NRvY0y6Wazv6IdDsSo9N48xQZOBZ1bQyhPQyhrRZOwaerQ67uRXpLlkVUM8gPK6IpaPNjkNZ6Uk5I3vAgzssehOx6rTcj89Dpq6O-LC8EuT6Dg6qRCdaruhliwDcgPsihUVCJNA9g2Bfw1UV-A/s1580/JohnFlynn8786RegisterOfEffects.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="1580" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DNBpkS43a41eOdebKn_t4j6WcFzwTkPlFbFL3r0-NRvY0y6Wazv6IdDsSo9N48xQZOBZ1bQyhPQyhrRZOwaerQ67uRXpLlkVUM8gPK6IpaPNjkNZ6Uk5I3vAgzssehOx6rTcj89Dpq6O-LC8EuT6Dg6qRCdaruhliwDcgPsihUVCJNA9g2Bfw1UV-A/w524-h156/JohnFlynn8786RegisterOfEffects.png" width="524" /></a></div><br /><p>In the 1916 rebellion Handbook, Flynn appears in the list of Royal Irish Regiment soldiers killed and he is noted as being from Carrick on Suir. He is buried in Kilkenny</p><p>https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/663032/john-flynn/</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-80407417086368833752022-04-30T18:40:00.004-07:002022-05-14T09:16:43.829-07:00Matters Rising Quizzes<p><b>Matters Rising Quiz 1</b> :</p><p>Questions : <a href="https://forms.gle/jtXX1sdXjpbD86Tg8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/jtXX1sdXjpbD86Tg8</a></p><p>Answers : <a href="https://youtu.be/YvKn_95tTdQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/YvKn_95tTdQ</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Matters Rising Quiz 2</b> :</p><p>Questions : <a href="https://forms.gle/hBXs2fCXy4xriR9M8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/hBXs2fCXy4xriR9M8</a></p><p>Answers : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG0uGKakoHY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG0uGKakoHY</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Matters Rising Quiz 3 :</b></p><p>Questions : <a href="https://forms.gle/yhvHgoSKKp9WkvLb8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/yhvHgoSKKp9WkvLb8</a></p><p>Answers : to follow 21st/22nd May 2022</p><p>One answer might appear in this presentation re <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZGem0LQTc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Easter Rising Myths </a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-10796959593155663172020-09-18T05:33:00.003-07:002020-09-18T05:33:51.602-07:00De Valera Promotion March 1915<p>One of the nice things about delving into archives is finding documents in different repositories that join together.</p><p>History Hub has a letter from Patrick Pearse to Eamon de Valera dated 11th March 1915 promoting de Valera to Commandant of the 3rd Battalion, Dublin Brigade. It's a nice hand written letter on Irish Volunteer headed paper showing the Volunteers HQ as being at 41 Kildare Street.</p><p><a href="http://historyhub.ie/assets/p0150-450-003.jpg" target="_blank">http://historyhub.ie/assets/p0150-450-003.jpg</a></p><p>It also confirms the appointment of Captain Fitzgibbon as the Vice Commandant and Captain Begley as the Adjutant. Pearse has mislaid the name of who was to be appointed Quartermaster of the battalion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The appointment of the above is confirmed in a copy of the Irish Volunteer paper dated 20th March 1915 available on the <a href="http://militaryarchives.ie/ma/ma/datafiles/pdf/1914.12.05%20-1916.04.22%20Vol%2002%20No%2001%20to%20Vol%2002%20No%2072%20The%20Irish%20Volunteer_132.pdf" target="_blank">Military archives site</a>.</p><p>The Quartermaster for the 3rd Battalion is named as Volunteer James Byrne. Fitzgibbon is named as John and Begley is names as Patrick.</p><p>Also on the paper is an advert for Hopkins and Hopkins, a business that would become a volunteer output during the Rising and which would be destroyed.</p><p>Interestingly, there is a note in the left hand corner re the flag authorised by companies - each company is to provide itself with a flag with a plain gold harp with a green (back)ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fitzgibbon, Begley and Byrne were all involved in the Easter Rising.</p><p><br /></p>Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-8392721803929169762020-07-05T05:12:00.001-07:002020-09-20T01:15:16.147-07:00DI Percival Lea-Wilson<br />
Percival Lea Wilson was appointed a Cadet in the Royal Irish Constabulary in July 1910<br />
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<a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28403/page/5593/data.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28403/page/5593/data.pdf</a><br />
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In the 1911 census, he has become a District Inspector 3rd Class and is stationed in Galway:<br />
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<a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Woodford/Woodford_Town/466067/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Galway/Woodford/Woodford_Town/466067/</a><br />
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District Inspector Percival (Perceval in many documents) Lea Wilson appears to have been commissioned as a Captain in the Royal Irish Regiment in January 1916 without having to go through the steps of 2nd Lieutenant and then Lieutenant :<br />
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<a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29459/supplement/1328/data.pdf">https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29459/supplement/1328/data.pdf</a><br />
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There are references to him having been in France and returning to Ireland as a result of wounds. I've not seen a Medal Index Card yet to confirm that he set foot in France before the Easter Rising.<br />
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Following the Easter Rising, Captain Percival Lea-Wilson, 3rd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment eventually went to France in 1917. Again, no Medal Index Card yet to confirm this.<br />
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His performance as a field officer appears to have been poor and he was sacked by this battalion Commanding Officer according to the records seen by Eithne Hand and discussed on the RTE History Show:<br /><br />
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He returned to the RIC Depot in Dublin as a District Inspector on the 17th July 1917 and is assigned to Gorey District in County Wexford from the 1st August 1917.<br />
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While he does get involved in some work to interfere with Sinn Fein activities during the November 1918 election campaign, he seems to have been unmolested by Michael Collins and the IRA. Some stories suggest that Collins tracked Lea-Wilson but it is difficult to understand how he would have done so.<br />
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In February 1920, members of the Irish Volunteers at The Ballagh, County Wexford conducted a raid for arms. The raid went wrong and a 60 year old woman, Mrs Ellen Morris (nee Murphy), was shot and killed :<br />
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<a href="https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/local-men-arrested-after-shooting-of-woman-in-wexford-house-raid">https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/local-men-arrested-after-shooting-of-woman-in-wexford-house-raid</a><br />
<br />As this falls in DI Lea-Wilson's district, he is active in the investigation and subsequent arrest of those involved.<br />
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Elaborate measures are taken to imprison the suspects and to transport them to and from the court. The British Army and Royal Navy were involved in the operations.<br />
<br />It appears that the Irish Volunteers in Enniscorthy decided that DI Lea-Wilson was to be shot. This is mentioned in the Witness Statement of Thomas Doyle, Weafer Street, Enniscorthy :<br />
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<a href="http://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1041.pdf#page=63" target="_blank">Thomas Doyle Witness Statement, page 62</a><br />
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<br />I suspect the Enniscorthy Volunteers subsequently spoke to GHQ and someone made the connection between DI Lea-Wilson in Gorey and Captain Lea-Wilson from the Easter Rising and then made the decision to use men from The Squad to assassinate DI Lea-Wilson.<br />
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Of the Irish Volunteers in the raid on Mrs Morris's, all were originally charged with Murder. Later, 18year old John Lacey was charged with manslaughter while the others involved were charged with Unlawful Assembly.<br />
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The sentences appear to be quite light for a murder at the time (Kevin Barry was hung in November 1920 for an arms raid that went wrong)<br />
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The Empire was riddled with racial prejudice, wages during WW1 increased but Police and military lagged behind, post war unemployment skyrocketed while few "Homes fit for Heroes" were materialising, and for many the demobilization process was slow while the Empire dabbled in Russia, Turkey, Silesia, Iraq, Palestine etc after the end of WW1 and tried to contain the independence movements in Ireland and India. The revolution in Russia, the near civil war in Germany and the race riots in America were also part of the background.<br />
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Singapore saw Indian troops mutiny in February 1915. There are references to similar mutinies in Rangoon, Burma but clear information is hard to come by. 103th Baluchees, 24th Punjabi and 22nd Pahari seem to get mentions but little else seems available. Empire troops were certainly in action in Burma fighting against Kachin rebels in early 1915.<br />
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In December 1915, after serving in France, over 400 Indian troops of the 15th Lancers were arrested in Basra for refusing to fight the Turks, fellow Muslims.<br />
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Shoreham saw mutinies in July 1917, November 1918 and January 1919.<br />
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Etaples saw soldiers mutiny in September 1917. Conditions and the brutality of the camp regime the core issues.<br />
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Early1918 saw a mutiny of the Machine Gun Corps based at Pirbright.<br />
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August 1918 saw a Police strike in London following the dismissal of PC Thomas Thiel for trying to improve pay and conditions<br />
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<a href="https://www.policeoracle.com/news/1918-strikes-I-rang-Scotland-Yard-and-told-them-there-is-likely-to-be-trouble_96966.html" target="_blank">https://www.policeoracle.com/news/1918-strikes-I-rang-Scotland-Yard-and-told-them-there-is-likely-to-be-trouble_96966.html</a><br />
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In September 1918, white soldiers at the military hospital at Belmont Street in Liverpool attacked 50 black soldiers in the hospital. A number of white soldiers came to the aid of the black soldiers. Several of the black soldiers had amputated limbs.<br />
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January 1919 saw race riots with Trade Unionists and ex-service personnel targeting black and colonial sailors in what has been referred to as <a href="https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/1069/1/TCBHamendedversion.pdf" target="_blank">Red Clydeside</a>.<br />
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January 1919 also saw members of the RAF mutiny at RAF Biggin Hill. 20000 troops are also reported to have mutinied in Southampton. The mutiny was put down by "father of the RAF" Trenchard.<br />
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Folkestone saw several thousand troops mutiny in early 1919. The mutiny was then supported by troops in Dover.<br />
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North Wales saw Canadian troops rioting at Kinmel Parl in March 1919. delays in demobilization, poor conditions, poor rations and being used as forced labour. 3 mutineers/bystanders were killed as well as two guards.<br />
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<a href="http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=40658" target="_blank">Sapper William Tarasevich</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=40320" target="_blank">Private David Gillan</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=40672" target="_blank">Cpl Joseph Young</a><br />
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In February 1919, the British Government started repatriation of black and arabs living in the United Kingdom. This intensified after the June 1919 race riots.<br />
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May 1919 saw 9000 reservists being recalled owing to industrial unrest in England and the growing unrest in Ireland. The soldiers demonstrate their "enthusiasm" by rioting.<br />
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In June 1919,Canadian troops rioted in Epsom, leaving one policeman dead - 51 year old Station Sergeant Thomas Green.<br />
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Victory/Peace Parades in July 1919 saw ex-servicemen riot in Luton and Swindon and a boycott by many ex-service personnel in Dublin.<br />
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Summer 1919 saw troops mutiny in Kantara, Egypt.<br />
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August 1919 saw a Police strike that had generally limited support but saw rioting in Liverpool. All the Police who took part in the strike were dismissed and their pensions lost.<br />
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June 1919 had seen a race riot in Liverpool in which Bermudan Charles Wotten was murdered. He was thrown into the dock and the crowd threw rocks and called for him to drown.<br />
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<a href="http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/archive/issues/nerve12/charles_wootton.php" target="_blank">http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/archive/issues/nerve12/charles_wootton.php</a><br />
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Charles Wotten's Royal Navy record describes him as "A Man of Color".<br />
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Cardiff saw race riots in September 1919, with troops joining in the lynch mobs<br />
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One that is particularly disturbing is the December 1918 mutiny by troops of the British West Indies Regiment in Taranto, Italy. The Base Commander dismissed legitimate complaints from soldiers in the regiment with the racist comment<br />
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<a href="https://www.josieholford.com/no-parades/" target="_blank">https://www.josieholford.com/no-parades/</a><br />
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Private Samuel Pinnock was killed during the mutiny and is buried in Taranto<br />
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<a href="https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2935494/pinnock,-samuel/" target="_blank">https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2935494/pinnock,-samuel/</a><br />
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In Ireland, the actions of the Black and Tans and Auxies did little to "restore law and order", with the RIC quite able lend support to murdering ex-British soldiers on a sectarian basis. "<a href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1921/jun/14/crown-forces-belfast-2" target="_blank">Murders embellished with all the glory of authority</a>" as Devlin referred to the British death squads operating in Ireland just weeks before the Connaught Ranger mutiny.<br />
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Just over a year before the Connaught Rangers mutiny, troops fired on a peaceful crowd on Indian civilians - the Jallianwala Bagh/Amritsar Massacre.<br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-75226162184100348892020-06-11T10:15:00.003-07:002020-06-12T00:14:31.622-07:00Sixpence well spentOne of the few family items I have, passed to me by my Gt Aunt Mollie (Mary Anne) Niland<br />
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There's a nice film clip on the RTE Archives site advertising the production of the RTV Guide and a few clips re the Insurrection series.<br />
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<a href="https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0314/774684-television-commemorates-the-easter-rising/" target="_blank">https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0314/774684-television-commemorates-the-ea</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0314/774684-television-commemorates-the-easter-rising/" target="_blank">ster-rising/</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0402/691546-rare-chance-to-see-rte-drama-insurrection/?view=print%3Fview" target="_blank">https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0402/691546-rare-chance-to-see-rte-drama-insurrection/?view=print%3Fview</a><br />
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OK, the Rolls Royce armoured cars didn't arrived till after the Rising was over but it makes for interesting gun fire :<br />
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<a href="https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0323/776859-critique-of-insurrection/" target="_blank">https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0323/776859-critique-of-insurrection/</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.rte.ie/archives/category/media/2016/0309/773625-insurrection/" target="_blank">https://www.rte.ie/archives/category/media/2016/0309/773625-insurrection/</a><br />
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Who's that behind Pearse?<br />
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<a href="https://presspack.rte.ie/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2016/03/2677_068.jpg" target="_blank">https://presspack.rte.ie/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2016/03/2677_068.jpg</a><br />
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and also in the RTE Stills Library (search for Insurrection) :<br />
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<a href="https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/" target="_blank">https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/</a><br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-27782891096217705762020-06-11T04:33:00.001-07:002020-06-11T04:51:56.533-07:00Podcasts and Zoom sessions for the Lock DownTwo podcasts worth tuning into during lock down and beyond :<br />
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Donal Fallon's <b>Three Castles Burning</b> is available from a variety of Podcast services. Check the Come Here to Me website and choose your preferred option :<br />
<a href="https://comeheretome.com/2019/11/24/announcing-three-castles-burning-a-dublin-social-history-podcast/" target="_blank">https://comeheretome.com/2019/11/24/announcing-three-castles-burning-a-dublin-social-history-podcast/</a><br />
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Lorcan Collins has stopped walking around Dublin at the moment but is still as engaging with his <b>Revolutionary Ireland</b> podcast :<br />
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<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutionary-ireland/id1511809051" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutionary-ireland/id1511809051</a><br />
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Enjoy!!<br />
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Meanwhile, Facebook group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/trasnanatire/" target="_blank">Trasna na Tire</a> has been organizing a great range of presentations online via Zoom and then making the presentation available on their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTxDEZDjIgSV1Kih4ZvPyNg" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>.<br />
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The group also has a <a href="https://www.trasnanatire.ie/" target="_blank">website</a>.<br />
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Off the usual track, the Western Front Association has a number of podcasts relating to Ireland e.g. The Defence of Trinity College during the Easter Rising and an episode re Tom Barry is planned.<br />
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<a href="https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-latest-wwi-podcast/" target="_blank">https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-latest-wwi-podcast/</a><br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-65887958151013960412020-04-14T14:11:00.000-07:002020-04-15T10:53:04.553-07:00Easter Rising and Zeppelin RaidsAt noon on the 24th April 1916, ships of the German Navy set out to attack the east coast of England.<br />
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At the same time, Zeppelins of the German Navy set off to attack London and to support the above mentioned ships. 3 Zeppelins were held in support to do reconnaissance work for the ships<br />
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The Zeppelins that flew over England were :<br />
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L16 commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Werner Peterson<br />
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L13 commanded by Leutnant Heinrich Mathy<br />
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L21 commanded by Kapitän Leutnant der Reserve Max Dietrich<br />
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L11 commanded by Korvetten Kapitan Victor Schutze<br />
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L17 commanded by Kapitan Leutnant Herbert Ehrlich<br />
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The other Zeppelins are believed to be :<br />
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L6 commanded by Kapitan Leuntnant Hermann Kraushaar(?)<br />
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L20 commanded by Kapitan Leuntnant Franz Stabbert (?)<br />
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L7 commanded by Kapitan Leutnant Hempel covered the withdrawal of SMS Seydlitz after it struck a mine.<br />
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The Zeppelin base was in Tonder, what is now modern Denmark but which in WW1 was part of Germany :<br />
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<a href="http://www.zeppelin-museum.dk/main.php?page=home&lang=en">http://www.zeppelin-museum.dk/main.php?page=home&lang=en</a><br />
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The following link is to a 1927 document outlining the raid on the English coast and some of the actions that took place :<br />
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<a href="https://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Naval-Staff-Monographs-Vol.XVI_opt.pdf">https://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Naval-Staff-Monographs-Vol.XVI_opt.pdf</a><br />
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<b>Other Resources :</b><br />
Ian Castle runs an interesting website and Facebook page re Zeppelin raids on the United Kingdom :<br />
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<a href="http://www.iancastlezeppelin.co.uk/home/4582467808">http://www.iancastlezeppelin.co.uk/home/4582467808</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Zeppelins-Over-Britain-375595139490510/?ref=bookmarks">https://www.facebook.com/Zeppelins-Over-Britain-375595139490510/?ref=bookmarks</a><br />
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Ian has published on the subject of Zeppelins and their raids on the UK :<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/First-Blitz-100-Objects/dp/1526732890" target="_blank">The First Blitz in 100 Objects</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zeppelin-Onslaught-Forgotten-Blitz-1914/dp/1848324332" target="_blank">The Forgotten Blitz</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Blitz-Bombing-London-World/dp/1472815297" target="_blank">The First Blitz : Bombing London in the First World War</a><br />
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Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-39915185509669685312020-04-14T13:44:00.001-07:002020-04-14T13:44:49.783-07:00Zoom and the Easter Rising - an online session with Marcus Howard and Derek MolyneauxZoom is proving an interesting tool during the Covid-19 lockdown.<br />
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Last night film maker Marcus Howard had the job of steering author Derek Molyneaux on task talking about the Easter Rising. What a great session these two put together. That did not feel like an hour - flew by.<br />
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The team at Trasne ne Tire have made a recording of the session available online :<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsHJeW44nXc&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsHJeW44nXc&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
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Enjoy :-)<br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-2977544490222290242019-11-24T11:04:00.002-08:002019-11-24T11:04:29.837-08:00Three Castles Burning PodcastA new Podcast on the block worth a listen is the Three Burning Castles (the symbol of Dublin) podcast by Donal Fallon.<br />
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First episode is out now and deals with the incident at Bachelors Walk just before the outbreak of WW1 :<br />
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<a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/three-castles-burning-donal-fallon-gEy9dJhbw2I/">https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/three-castles-burning-donal-fallon-gEy9dJhbw2I/</a><br />
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Donal's website, Come Here to me, is always worth a visit for some interesting takes on life and history in Dublin :<br />
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<a href="https://comeheretome.com/">https://comeheretome.com/</a><br />
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Guest presenter on Episode 1 is Lorcan Collins, author and lead guide on the highly recommended 1916 Rebellion Walking Tour<br />
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<a href="http://www.1916rising.com/">http://www.1916rising.com/</a><br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-38285198355767771412019-09-08T14:17:00.002-07:002019-09-08T14:17:32.701-07:00Private Thomas Highgate8th September 1914 saw the execution of Private Thomas James Highgate of 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.<br />
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Highgate was the first of over 300 members of the British Army who would be executed by the British Army during the course of World War 1 (WW1).<br />
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Stationed in Richmond Barracks, Dublin at the outbreak of WW1, 19year old Highgate and his comrades landed in France on 15th August 1914 and took part in the Battle of Mons.<br />
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He was arrested for desertion on the 6th September 1914, tried by Field General Court Martial without a defending officer or witnesses, found guilty and executed early on the 8th September 1914.<br />
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While the British Army did bury him, the grave was subsequently lost.<br />
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<a href="https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/879050/highgate,-thomas-james/">https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/879050/highgate,-thomas-james/</a><br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-80500794141922111112018-10-22T11:38:00.000-07:002018-10-22T11:38:08.529-07:00William Patrick O'Brien (aka Willie Pa/Liam)A nice write up of the involvement of William/Liam O'Brien and his comrades in Cork during the Easter Rising appears on this post by Ruari Lynch<br />
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<a href="http://diarmuidlynch.weebly.com/irish-volunteers-officer-training-january-1916.html#">http://diarmuidlynch.weebly.com/irish-volunteers-officer-training-january-1916.html#</a><br />
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William/Liam was more active in 1916 than I had originally understood.<br />
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He died not too long after his release from Frongoch, having previously been a healthy and sporting individual<br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-26812411955198314472018-08-14T04:36:00.001-07:002018-08-14T04:36:18.401-07:00Irish 1916, 1917-1921 etc medalsFollowing the Easter Rising and War of Independence, the Irish Government eventually got around to issuing medals and pensions to participants.<br />
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The Irish Defence Forces website has a nice write up re the different medals, the dates they covers, some of the political background and some of the issues re who was/was not entitled to a medal etc<br />
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http://www.military.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/images/Info_Centre/documents/MSPC_MEDALSBOOKLET_APRIL2016.pdf<br />
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The document gives a figure of <b>2594</b> as the number of veterans who applied and who qualified for the 1916 medal for example and notes some who were eligible but for whom no application was received.<br />
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More information about the medals can be found on Brendan Lee's site :<br />
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<a href="http://www.irishmedals.ie/1916-Rising-Medal.php" target="_blank">1916 Medal</a> (and 1966 Jubilee Medal)<br />
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<a href="http://www.irishmedals.ie/Black-and-Tan-Medal.php" target="_blank">1917-1921 Service Medal</a> (and 1971 Truce Commemoration Medal)<br />
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For information about medals issued in Ireland before 1916 and others awarded to Irish Defence Forces, Gardai, Fire Brigade etc personnel the following site if a useful resource<br />
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<a href="http://www.theeasterrising.eu/025_AllMedals/All_Medals.htm">http://www.theeasterrising.eu/025_AllMedals/All_Medals.htm</a><br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-37097051323147862622018-08-02T04:37:00.002-07:002018-08-02T04:37:53.862-07:00Major Acheson, Fermoy 29th April 1916While searching for information re Judge Law Smith, I came across the following information re Major Acheson of the Army Service Corps (ASC) who was shot and killed on the 29th April 1916<br />
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https://wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/view.php?uid=238175<br />
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It appears that he failed to stop when challenged by a sentry who subsequently opened fire.<br />
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Not a lot recorded on his gravestone/CWGC entry<br />
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https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2743504/acheson,-percival-havelock/<br />
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He is shown as aged 52 on the 1911 census and born in "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Hanpohine" - I think this should be Hampshire.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Fermoy_Rural/Grange_West/412612/</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Just records England in the 1901 census</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cork/Fermoy_Rural/Grange_West/1144275/</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Buried not far away from Major Acheson is Head Constable Rowe of the Royal Irish Constabulary who was killed in the firefight at the home of the Kent brothers.</span></span><br />
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162007387/percival-havelock-acheson<br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-28690736833857812212018-07-29T16:12:00.001-07:002023-08-17T01:01:55.054-07:00Kathleen Lynn Easter Rising DiaryKathleen Lynn Easter Rising diary now available to view online<br />
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https://www.rcpi.ie/heritage-centre/1916-2/revolutionary-diary-kathleen-lynn/<br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-10119324122908571242018-07-29T14:57:00.000-07:002018-07-30T04:47:30.391-07:00Thomas Bryan/Annie Glynn - Who Do You Think You AreThe subject of Thomas Bryan, executed by the British in 1921, came up on the TV programme Who Do You Think You Are looking into the family of Boy George.<br />
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The following Irish Times article seems to imply there was some issue re Thomas Bryan's father in law, Joseph Glynn, re WW1.<br />
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<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/boy-george-the-bits-who-do-you-think-you-are-didn-t-tell-you-about-singer-s-irish-family-1.3576531" target="_blank">Irish Times 25th July 2018</a><br />
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It appears that Joseph Glynn served with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and that his daughter Annie Christina Glynn was born in Gibraltar as a result of a posting there. The family are then in Dover in the 1901 census for England.<br />
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Joseph Glynn had married Mary Jane Nolan in January 1897, both living in Dominick Place.<br />
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<a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1897/10443/5803005.pdf">https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1897/10443/5803005.pdf</a><br />
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Their first child, Patrick Christopher Glynn, was born in December 1897 with the address as Dominick Place.<br />
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<a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1897/02107/1802203.pdf">https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1897/02107/1802203.pdf</a><br />
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Ancestry shows that Joseph died in 1902 in Dover aged 30. Presumably buried somewhere in or near Dover. Annie Glynn/Bryan was also to die aged 30.<br />
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Joseph's widow, Mary Jane Glynn nee Nolan married Joseph's brother Richard in 1907. Richard was also a soldier, serving in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the Boer War and then re-enlisted with the Royal Munster Fusiliers for WW1. Richard survived WW1.<br />
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He was born <a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1875/03092/2133517.pdf" target="_blank">25th July 1875</a> and was 18 when he first enlisted in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 22nd October 1894 as number 5274. He served at home, East Indies (6/10/96 to 17/5/97), South Africa (18/5/97 to 11/2/1902) and then East Indies again (12/2/03 to 8/11/03).<br />
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He was awarded the Queens South Africa medal with 6 clasps and Kings South Africa Medal with 2 clasps. He left the army after 12 years service. He re-enlisted in 1914 as G/1574 with the Royal Munster Fusiliers and was in Italy 9/11/17 to 8/3/1919. His service record shows his address in Dublin as 75 Upper Dominick Street.<br />
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The family is listed in the 1911 census for Ireland living at 69 Upper Dominick Street.<br />
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<a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Inns_Quay/Dominick_Street__Upper/39102/">http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Inns_Quay/Dominick_Street__Upper/39102/</a><br />
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Annie married Thomas Bryan (Brien on the marriage certificate) and lists Joseph as her father with no indication that he was deceased.<br />
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<a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1920/09280/5359872.pdf">https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1920/09280/5359872.pdf</a><br />
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She records the family living at 75 Upper Dominick Street and this tallies with the address that Richard Glynn gives in his WW1 service record (available to view on Ancestry).<br />
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Thomas Bryan's father James worked at <a href="http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/docs/files//PDF_Pensions/R1/1D142THOMASBRYAN/W1D142THOMASBRYAN.pdf" target="_blank">171 North King Street for Dunne's butchers</a>. This address was smack in the middle of the <a href="http://digital.ucd.ie/get/ivrla:30958/content" target="_blank">North King Street</a> murders, cited as the probable location of the troops that shot and killed William O'Neill. It was next door to no 172 where O'Neill's brother John Walsh was murdered. The Hickeys were murdered on the other side of the building in 170 North King Street.<br />
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Thomas Dunne seems to have been the landlord for number 173 North King St<br />
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and submitted a claim for damages at 171 North King St<br />
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The Bryan family were living in North King Street in the 1901 and 1911 census<br />
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The 1911 census shows that the parents has 9 children but only 3 had survived as at 1911.<br />
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Thomas Bryan, Annie Glynn and the parents of Thomas Bryan later appear to be linked to 14 Henrietta Street.<br />
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<a href="http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000575103/HierarchyTree" target="_blank">Thomas Bryan</a> was executed by hanging on the 14th March 1921 in Mountjoy Prison and became one of the "Forgotten 10".<br />
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-27812950000804437322017-12-27T05:04:00.000-08:002020-04-14T23:41:58.442-07:00Judge Law Smith and his Chauffeur<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the foregound of the above photo is the remains of the O'Rahilly's car.</div>
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In the background is a car with the registration TI 334. This is a Limerick registration but finding the name of the owner was proving difficult as the online versions of the Irish Motor Directory only goes up to 1915 and the Limerick list only goes up to TI 296.</div>
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(I generally use the<a href="http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/IrishMotorDirectory1914.htm" target="_blank"> Lennon Wylie page</a> for the 1915 Motor Directory as it covers all counties but there are <a href="http://www.limerickcity.ie/Library/LocalStudies/OwnersofLimerick-registeredmotorvehicles1912-1914/" target="_blank">Limerick specific versions</a> available to view online too).</div>
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Looking through the Rebellion Claims Committee, I thought that the car might belong to the <a href="http://centenaries.nationalarchives.ie/reels/plic/PLIC_1_5771.pdf" target="_blank">Thompson Motor Company as the claim</a> for the 15HP Landaulette damage description seemed quite close to the damage seen on the car and the car looks similar to a Napier Landaulette. No registration number is mentioned in the claim.</div>
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I am grateful to input from members of the Facebook group "Irish Vehicle Registrations Past & Present" who were able to identify the owner from the registration number as Limerick County Court official Judge Law Smith. </div>
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It appears the Judge Phillip Henry Law Smith had a claim into the Rebellion Claims Committee for a <a href="http://centenaries.nationalarchives.ie/reels/plic/PLIC_1_1821.pdf" target="_blank">Sunbeam Landaulette and Chauffeurs uniform</a>. Again, no registration number is mentioned in the claim.</div>
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There is a note in the claim to the effect that the Chauffeurs outfit was damaged as a result of his confinement in the GPO during the Rising and that the Chauffeur was arrested by the military after the Rising as a Sinn Feiner until his identity was ascertained.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0284.pdf" target="_blank">Michael Staines witness statement indicates</a> that the Chauffeur was detained and that he was one of the men who carried James Connolly's stretcher when the GPO was evacuated.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0807.pdf#page=9" target="_blank">Father Patrick Doyle's witness statement</a> suggests that the Chauffeur stayed with the Volunteers and fought with them in the GPO.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0165.pdf#page=11" target="_blank">Luke Kennedy's witness statement</a> suggests that the car was used during the Rising in an attempt to collect chemicals and that the car was driven by the chauffeur.</div>
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None of the witness statements or the claim form give the name of the Chauffeur. However, a <a href="http://the1916proclamation.ie/the-roll-honour/k/" target="_blank">1916 Roll of Honour website</a> lists M Keilly of 22 Ailesbury Road (the address of Judge Law Smith), a Chauffeur as being detained in Richmond Barracks and transferred to Knutsford Prison on 30th April 1916. The 1916 Rebellion Handbook lists Reilly M of 22 Ailesbury Road, Chauffeur as being detained in Richmond Barracks and transferred to Knutsford on the 20th April.</div>
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A Martin Reilly is listed as being released between 13th and 22nd May 1916. Nothing so far to confirm that Martin Reilly was the chauffeur.</div>
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<a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cavan/Crossdoney/Kevitt_Upper/1060962/" target="_blank">1901 Census for Philip Henry Law Smith</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Limerick/Limerick_No__8_Urban/George_Street/632463/" target="_blank">1911 Census for Philip Henry Law Smith</a></div>
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Philip Henry Law Smith died 5th January 1920 and is buried in <a href="https://www.batharchives.co.uk/sites/bath_record_office/files/SJE%20Section%20C.pdf" target="_blank">Bath</a>, England.</div>
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<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-72225122773514533352017-10-01T13:14:00.002-07:002017-10-03T05:23:32.114-07:00Those of Us Who Must Die - Quick quizHaving done an <a href="http://johnny-doyle.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/eater-rising-mastermind.html" target="_blank">Easter Rising Mastermind quiz</a> a while back, I thought I'd offer up a quick quiz on some of the material from "Those of Us Who Must Die". Nothing too difficult in here.<br />
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1. Volunteers were deported to England on the cattle ship TSS Slieve Bloom. What does TSS stand for?<br />
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2. How many .303 rifle bullets were fired in the executions in Kilmainham and Cork?<br />
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3. On leaving Kilmainham Gaol, what song did Commandant Ceannt start to sing?<br />
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4. How many of the executed were shot in the head?<br />
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5. As Eoin MacNeill was brought into Dartmoor prison, who called the Volunteers to attention ("'shun") and gave the order "eyes left"?<br />
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6. What nationality was rebel Tony Makapaltis?<br />
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7. In what year before the Easter Rising did Kilmainham Gaol cease to be used as civilian prison?<br />
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8. When Gary Holohan gave his name to an officer at Richmond Barracks, what surname did the officer mistakenly record?<br />
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9. It was suggested to Richard Mulcahy that he and the 5th Battalion volunteers should surrender to District Inspector Smyth at Ashbourne. Why was this not possible?<br />
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10. Cavanagh, Barton, Hoey, and Love belonged to which organisation?<br />
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11. FGCM is an abbreviation for what?<br />
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12. Members of which British regiment retrieved the last letter of the O'Rahilly?<br />
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13. Who whistled on the way to his execution?<br />
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14. Which of the executed Volunteer leaders was already a dying man at the time of his execution?<br />
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15. Which priest converted Grace Gifford to Catholicism?<br />
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16. Which DMP constable went out of his way to help, concerned that relatives of those to be<br />
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17. Which officer found himself in charge of a firing party that would execute his childhood friend?<br />
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18. What Royal Navy ship brought prisoners from Galway to Kingstown?<br />
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19. What nickname was given to the British Officer in charge of Frongoch by the Volunteers?<br />
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20. How many firing squads were commanded by a Royal Navy officer?<br />
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Send your answers to doylejsd@gmail.com.<br />
<br />Johnny Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07980744176665537552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481117822063676426.post-3684245838222553422017-09-27T08:29:00.001-07:002017-09-27T08:29:40.735-07:00Those of us Who Must DiePopped over to Dublin last week for the launch of "<a href="https://www.collinspress.ie/those-of-us-who-must-die.html" target="_blank">Those of Us Who Must Die</a>", the second book by Derek Molyneux and Darren Kelly.<br />
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Very well attended event with Marcus Howard doing the honours re officially launching the book.<br />
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Just finished reading "Those of Us Who Must Die" and have to say it's another great read. While I languish in the dry world of facts, figures etc, Derek and Darren are able to string a story together that delivers facts in a well paced and entertaining roller coaster of a ride. The range of emotions stirred reading this book is worrying - anger, pride, sadness and a few tears welled up as events unfold following the Easter Rising.<br />
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A wide range of things that were new to me and which will spin off a few little research projects.<br />
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Definitely a worthy addition to the library to sit alongside "<a href="https://www.collinspress.ie/when-the-clock-struck-in-1916.html" target="_blank">When the Clock Struck in 1916</a>".<br />
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