#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. Below are men from the Royal Irish Fusiliers.
#OnThisDay 1923 Five Free State Army deserters were executed by firing squad in Dublin. They had aided the IRA in an ambush on the FSA in Maynooth, the previous December. They were the first National Army soldiers to be executed for Treachery. Names in pic.
#OnThisDay 1901 John Barry VC from Kilkenny died in battle. While surrounded by Boers, Private Barry rendered his Maxim machine-gun useless to prevent it being turned on his own men, but was killed while doing so. For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
#OnThisDay 1815 The British Army lost the Battle of New Orleans, the last battle of the War of 1812. The blame for the loss was aimed at Anglo-Irish Lt. Col Thomas Mullins from Kerry, who did not get the ladders needed to cross a canal & storm enemy positions.
#OnThisDay 1922 The Second Dáil ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 thus creating the legal process for the formation of the Irish Free State & sowing the seeds for the Irish Civil War. De Valera resigned as President. Sinn Fein split.
The Irish at War 