#OnThisDay 1923 Three Anti-Treaty IRA men were executed for illegal possession of arms in Dundalk. When their bodies were released to the public in 1924, the IRA fired a volley over their graves & the Free State Army present returned fire. One man was killed. #Ireland #History
#OnThisDay 1921 East Clare IRA, led by Michael Brennan ambush a patrol of Black and Tans & RIC at Cratloe. Two RIC officers, (Sgt Stephen Carty and Sgt Jeremiah Curtin who were both from Ireland with over 40 years experience between them) are killed. #Ireland #History
#OnThisDay 1923 Fifty Anti-Treaty IRA mined, doused in petrol & then burnt down Sligo train station. They also badly damaged seven engines & forty carriages which cost £80,000. One of the trains smashed through the goods’ yard & ended up in the harbour. #Ireland #History
#OnThisDay 1923 Two Anti-Treaty IRA officers were shot dead by Free State Army in Wexford. Con McCarthy (L)&Bernie Radford(R) refused to surrender despite being surrounded &fought on allowing their men to escape. Lt Cousins who shot them was Radford’s neighbour.
#OnThisDay 1916 the last British troops left the Gallipoli peninsula ending that doomed campaign. The Munster & Dublin Fusiliers were the first to land & over 3,000 Irishmen died there over the next 9 months. Of the 1,012 Dubliners who landed in Gallipoli, only 11 remained unscathed. The 1st Battalions from the Dublin & Munster Fusiliers has to be amalgamated because they suffered so many losses. Their name was changed to the “Dubsters”. Pictured are men from the Royal Irish Fusiliers trying to set a trap for an enemy sniper from their trench in Gallipoli.
