Some of the soldiers from the 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers involved in Bachelors Walk.
The following were killed during the Great War and have links to their Commonwealth War Grave Commision entry.
Lt Hammond
Cpl/Sgt Ludlow B Company
Pte Bendelowe B Company
Pte Douglas (I keep thinking it was Pte Douglas reported as dropping 2 rounds but it was Pte Baird)
Pte Burgon B Company
Pte McCallum B Company
Pte McWhirter
L/Cpl Peter Finney was one of two soldiers injured at Howth. Consequently, he didn't arrive in France until 5/12/1914 (the rest of the unit arrived in France on the 15/8/1914). Finney appears to have moved to the 6th Battalion when he was killed in 1917.
The following appear to have got through the Great War :
Pte Charles Lightfoot, number 11555, appears to have survived. He enlisted 14/8/1913 and was discharged as a result of sickness 9/9/1918 aged 23years and 6months old. Silver War Badge number 448276.
Pte William Victor Lamb, number 11547, enlisted 4/7/1913 and was discharged as a result of wounds 30/9/1915.
Pte Hugh Victor Corrigan, number 11296, enlisted 5/3/1912 and was discharged as a result of wounds 15/5/1915.
Pte Andrew Baird, number 11615, appears to have survived the Great War. at some point transferred to 4th Labour Battalion as number 213133.
Yet to track down :
Privates :
Johanson
Boswell?
Rosewell
Galloway
Lennox
Burns
Doel?
Lee
Hyde
Green
James Porter
Downes/Daunes? (wounded at Howth)
Corporals :
Scotland
L/Cpl Evans
Sergeants :
Todd
Sullivan
Officers :
Lt Harvey
Lt Miles or Myles
Major Leigh (remained in barracks and was not directly involved)
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
KOSB Officers at Bachelors Walk July 1914
The 2nd Battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) were involved in the incident at Bachelors Walk, Dublin in July 1914. They left Dublin shortly afterwards and went to France as the Great War erupted.
2 of the officers involved at Bachelors Walk soon found themselves as Prisoners of War and remained so for the duration.
Captain (later Major) Hugh Cobden and Major (later Lt Colonel) Alfred Edward Haig were placed on the "Exonerated Officers List' after their repatriation at the end of the war. This meant that neither was officially blamed for getting themselves captured and that they could claim their WW1 campaign medals.
Newspaper reports after Bachelors Walk suggested that there were 4 witnesses to Irish born Hugh Cobden shooting Mrs Duffy dead. Cobden's mother Georgina (nee Gough) was a great niece of Field Marshal Hugh Gough.
Major Haig was Mentioned in Dispatches on the 20th October 1914. His son was later to follow him into the army but died in what is now Malawi in 1941 with the 1st Battalion, Rhodesia Regiment, attached to the King's African Rifles. Major Haig's father was born in Dublin.
A third officer involved at Bachelors Walk was Dublin born Major Edward Sacheverell d'Ewes Coke. He served through the Great War and was promoted to Brevet Colonel/temporary Brigadier General, 169th Brigade. His father, Major General John Talbot Coke, has been awarded the Canada General Service Medal and promotion for his part in the Fenian Raids of Canada in 1866. He was later a Colonel in the KOSB. Two sons of Edward Coke were to die in Holland in 1944 - one serving with the KOSB and another with the Sherwood Foresters. They are buried in the same cemetery.
All 3 officers were interviewed/questioned by Henry Hanna KC in the aftermath of Bachelor's Walk. Hanna was to then be involved as the defence lawyer in the court-martials that followed the Easter Rising and the murder trial of Sgt Flood, 5th Royal Dublin Fusiliers after the shooting of 2 British officers and 2 Guinness employees during the Rising. He also went on to write The Pals at Suvla, the story of D Company of the 7th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website lists 244 members of the 2nd Battalion KOSB who died in the first few months of WW1. A number are in Germany and I assume that they were wounded soldiers who had been captured.
2 of the officers involved at Bachelors Walk soon found themselves as Prisoners of War and remained so for the duration.
Captain (later Major) Hugh Cobden and Major (later Lt Colonel) Alfred Edward Haig were placed on the "Exonerated Officers List' after their repatriation at the end of the war. This meant that neither was officially blamed for getting themselves captured and that they could claim their WW1 campaign medals.
Newspaper reports after Bachelors Walk suggested that there were 4 witnesses to Irish born Hugh Cobden shooting Mrs Duffy dead. Cobden's mother Georgina (nee Gough) was a great niece of Field Marshal Hugh Gough.
Major Haig was Mentioned in Dispatches on the 20th October 1914. His son was later to follow him into the army but died in what is now Malawi in 1941 with the 1st Battalion, Rhodesia Regiment, attached to the King's African Rifles. Major Haig's father was born in Dublin.
A third officer involved at Bachelors Walk was Dublin born Major Edward Sacheverell d'Ewes Coke. He served through the Great War and was promoted to Brevet Colonel/temporary Brigadier General, 169th Brigade. His father, Major General John Talbot Coke, has been awarded the Canada General Service Medal and promotion for his part in the Fenian Raids of Canada in 1866. He was later a Colonel in the KOSB. Two sons of Edward Coke were to die in Holland in 1944 - one serving with the KOSB and another with the Sherwood Foresters. They are buried in the same cemetery.
All 3 officers were interviewed/questioned by Henry Hanna KC in the aftermath of Bachelor's Walk. Hanna was to then be involved as the defence lawyer in the court-martials that followed the Easter Rising and the murder trial of Sgt Flood, 5th Royal Dublin Fusiliers after the shooting of 2 British officers and 2 Guinness employees during the Rising. He also went on to write The Pals at Suvla, the story of D Company of the 7th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website lists 244 members of the 2nd Battalion KOSB who died in the first few months of WW1. A number are in Germany and I assume that they were wounded soldiers who had been captured.
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Bank of Ireland Roll of Honour
part of the Bank of Ireland Roll of Honour is now available to view online. I'm interested in trying to find out how many were members of the Dublin University OTC and to see how many might have been involved in the Easter Rising.
Las from the Irish Volunteers Commemorative Organisation pointed out Lance Corporal William Percy Butler who had enlisted on the 16th February 1916 and as a member of the 10th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers was involved in the Easter Rising. No details as to his exact involvement unfortunately.
His CWGC entry indicates he was only 20 years old when he died of wounds a year to the day after the Easter Rising on the 24th April 1917.
De Ruvigny's memorial record states that he died in No 19 Casualty Clearing Station from wounds received while in charge of a Lewis Machine Gun at Gavrelle. The son of William John Butler, Assistant Librarian at Trinity College. Born Moy, Co Tyrone, 8th May 1896. Soldiers Died in the Great War says born Kingstown, Co Dublin but the 1901 census confirms Co Tyrone as his birthplace.
William Percy Butler is commemorated on the Roll of Honour at Christ Chuch, Dun Laoghaire.
Las from the Irish Volunteers Commemorative Organisation pointed out Lance Corporal William Percy Butler who had enlisted on the 16th February 1916 and as a member of the 10th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers was involved in the Easter Rising. No details as to his exact involvement unfortunately.
His CWGC entry indicates he was only 20 years old when he died of wounds a year to the day after the Easter Rising on the 24th April 1917.
De Ruvigny's memorial record states that he died in No 19 Casualty Clearing Station from wounds received while in charge of a Lewis Machine Gun at Gavrelle. The son of William John Butler, Assistant Librarian at Trinity College. Born Moy, Co Tyrone, 8th May 1896. Soldiers Died in the Great War says born Kingstown, Co Dublin but the 1901 census confirms Co Tyrone as his birthplace.
William Percy Butler is commemorated on the Roll of Honour at Christ Chuch, Dun Laoghaire.
17th (Armoured Car) Battalion, Tank Corps
The 17th (Armoured Car) Battalion of the Tank Corps served in Marlborough Barracks, Dublin during the Tan War/War of Independence.
Prior to this they had served in France and Germany. This passage is a nice summary of the work of the 17th Battalion :
http://www.archive.o...835168_djvu.txt
It was formed, equipped, and landed in France in the short
space of six days. In six months it fought in ten separate
battles with English, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand,
South African, French, and American troops, and was three
times mentioned in German dispatches. Every car was
hit and some of them many times, and yet the total losses
in killed in action throughout this period was only one officer
and four(? see below) other ranks. At the cost of these five men and
seven cars totally destroyed, this battalion must have in-
flicted scores if not hundreds of casualties on the enemy.
That the British Army was not equipped with many more of
these units will be a problem which will doubtless perplex
the minds of future military historians.
Prior to this they had served in France and Germany. This passage is a nice summary of the work of the 17th Battalion :
http://www.archive.o...835168_djvu.txt
It was formed, equipped, and landed in France in the short
space of six days. In six months it fought in ten separate
battles with English, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand,
South African, French, and American troops, and was three
times mentioned in German dispatches. Every car was
hit and some of them many times, and yet the total losses
in killed in action throughout this period was only one officer
and four(? see below) other ranks. At the cost of these five men and
seven cars totally destroyed, this battalion must have in-
flicted scores if not hundreds of casualties on the enemy.
That the British Army was not equipped with many more of
these units will be a problem which will doubtless perplex
the minds of future military historians.
The men killed were :
Pte Frank Robinson KIA 11/6/1918
Cpl William McNicoll KIA 21/8/1918
Pte Frederick Arthur Balch KIA 2/9/1918
Lt Norman Clark Wood MC KIA 2/9/1918
Pte Herbert Taylor KIA 29/9/1918
Pte William Duncan Sheard MM KIA 29/9/1918
Pte William Morris Toulson Died 6/10/1918
Pte R W Ewing Died 12/02/1919
Balch, Taylor and McNicoll had all been transferred from the Royal Flying Corps.
Pte Sheard's MM gazetted 27th January 1919, alongside Lance Corporal C Rhodes. Sheard is recorded in the MGC Database on the National Archives website (search Discovery using reference SKR/DAT/IP/104267).
In Ireland, the battalion had Austin (and later Peerless) armoured cars as well as some Whippet medium tanks and the rhomboid Mark V and Mark V* normally associated with WW1.
A number of Whippet tanks from the 17th (AC) Battalion took park in the Victory Parade in Dublin, 19th July 1919 (Victory Parades were held in many of the Allied countries on this date, following the Treaty of Versailles) :
A230 Gofasta
A378 Golikell
A351 Fanny Adams
A289 Fanny's Sister
A340 was photographed being used in County Clare.
3 others seem to have been in Ireland in 1919 :
A242 Sadko
A308
A317
while A374 appears to have been in Dublin in 1920. (Thanks to Christina McMullen in the Early Irish Militaria 1916-1946 Facebook group for a picture showing A374 in a raid and named as "Shurrup").
A Company appears to have used Austin armoured cars
B Company appears to have used Whippets tanks
C Company appears to have used the Mark IV, V and V* tanks
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Guardian Photographer
stumbled upon an article re photographers in Ireland from an old online issue of the Guardian which mentions a photographer Walter Doughty who I'd not heard of before. Also a link to an archive of Guardian photos, some of which cover the Irish Civil War and afterwards.
The first article mentioned that a number of photographers/press came to Dublin on HMS Dove. This is the ship/sailing that brought Major General Friend across to Dublin (p39, The Sea Hound by Daire Brunicardi).
The first article mentioned that a number of photographers/press came to Dublin on HMS Dove. This is the ship/sailing that brought Major General Friend across to Dublin (p39, The Sea Hound by Daire Brunicardi).
Friday, 11 January 2013
HMS Laburnum/Singapore
HMS Laburnum was an Acacia class sloop launched in 1915. It was the ship that fired on suspected Irish Volunteers near Galway during the Easter Rising (a number of books and articles erroneously state that HMS Gloucester fired on the Volunteers).
It appears to have transferred to New Zealand after the Great War and then to Singapore. When the Japanese conquered Singapore in 1942 it appears to have been scuttled
In 1915, Singapore had itself been the scene of a rebellion, with a number of Indian troops starting a mutiny and killing a number of British soldiers and civilians. German Prisoners of War from the Emden were released by the mutineers and invited to take part in the rebellion but most appear to have declined.
With order restored by the British (aided by French, Russian and Japanese ships), a number of the Indian rebels were shot en masse by firing squad.
It appears to have transferred to New Zealand after the Great War and then to Singapore. When the Japanese conquered Singapore in 1942 it appears to have been scuttled
In 1915, Singapore had itself been the scene of a rebellion, with a number of Indian troops starting a mutiny and killing a number of British soldiers and civilians. German Prisoners of War from the Emden were released by the mutineers and invited to take part in the rebellion but most appear to have declined.
With order restored by the British (aided by French, Russian and Japanese ships), a number of the Indian rebels were shot en masse by firing squad.
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Guinness Drivers
A letter to Colonel Collard, ASC, dated 16th Dec 1914 lists 16 Straker Squires, 35hp, capable of carrying 4 tons; these were the subject of an earlier request by the military (8/11/1914 and 8/12/1914) for 16 x 3 ton lorries for use in case of an emergency in Ireland only.
As at 9th May 1917, Guinness had 11 Straker Squires left (8 valued at £30 and 3 at £40) and 13 Milnes-Daimlers and appeared happy to give the military the Straker Squires but not the Milnes-Daimlers (or the steam wagons)
Guinness appeared to use a numbering system for their vehicles. A note dated 18th April 1918 has
No 2 4 ton Straker Squire valued at £20 (after recent overhaul and paint)
No 4 4 ton Straker Squires valued at £20 (after recent overhaul and paint)
No 23 4 ton Milnes Daimler valued at £87-18-11
No 28 4 ton Milnes Daimler valued at £94-13-11
3 Guinness lorries in Liverpool (no's 11, 12 and 13) had been requisitioned by the military in August 1914.
In Oct 1913, the Dublin office had a list of drivers, their numbers, date they entered service, date appointed as a driver, and wage per week. (All Straker Squires drivers I'm assuming)
8471 Ledwidge, Henry 18/10/99 14/06/09 49/-
8420 Fleming, James 1/9/99 11/10/09 37/-
7637 Dunne, John 3/9/96 8/8/10 35/-
10690 Hilton, L(onie) 10/02/04 27/12/09 32/- (served during WW1, Royal Navy)
7185 Dillon, William 23/09/95 28/7/09 33/-
7496 Prior, Daniel 8/9/98 11/10/09 33/-
Other drivers were appointed
25/04/10 x 1
13/3/11 x 2
1/11/11 x 2
24/1/12 x 2
22/3/12 x1
10/5/12 x2
13/9/12 x2
15/11/12 x 3
As at 27/1/1914 the following Milnes-Daimler drivers were working at Guinness with their join date :
F Page 8/11/13
C Frisby 8/11/13
R Moon 8/11/13
J Sassiene 12/11/13
H Francis 12/11/13
P Green 12/11/13
G Taylor 19/11/13
Guinness appears to have hired tyres from Dunlop at 1 1/4 pence per mile.
As at 9th May 1917, Guinness had 11 Straker Squires left (8 valued at £30 and 3 at £40) and 13 Milnes-Daimlers and appeared happy to give the military the Straker Squires but not the Milnes-Daimlers (or the steam wagons)
Guinness appeared to use a numbering system for their vehicles. A note dated 18th April 1918 has
No 2 4 ton Straker Squire valued at £20 (after recent overhaul and paint)
No 4 4 ton Straker Squires valued at £20 (after recent overhaul and paint)
No 23 4 ton Milnes Daimler valued at £87-18-11
No 28 4 ton Milnes Daimler valued at £94-13-11
3 Guinness lorries in Liverpool (no's 11, 12 and 13) had been requisitioned by the military in August 1914.
In Oct 1913, the Dublin office had a list of drivers, their numbers, date they entered service, date appointed as a driver, and wage per week. (All Straker Squires drivers I'm assuming)
8471 Ledwidge, Henry 18/10/99 14/06/09 49/-
8420 Fleming, James 1/9/99 11/10/09 37/-
7637 Dunne, John 3/9/96 8/8/10 35/-
10690 Hilton, L(onie) 10/02/04 27/12/09 32/- (served during WW1, Royal Navy)
7185 Dillon, William 23/09/95 28/7/09 33/-
7496 Prior, Daniel 8/9/98 11/10/09 33/-
Other drivers were appointed
25/04/10 x 1
13/3/11 x 2
1/11/11 x 2
24/1/12 x 2
22/3/12 x1
10/5/12 x2
13/9/12 x2
15/11/12 x 3
As at 27/1/1914 the following Milnes-Daimler drivers were working at Guinness with their join date :
F Page 8/11/13
C Frisby 8/11/13
R Moon 8/11/13
J Sassiene 12/11/13
H Francis 12/11/13
P Green 12/11/13
G Taylor 19/11/13
Guinness appears to have hired tyres from Dunlop at 1 1/4 pence per mile.
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