#OnThisDay 1922 The IRA attack Kenmare, Kerry. The IRA kill Tom ‘Scarteen’ O’Connor, O/C of the Free State soldiers in the town & his brother, John. They captured 120 Free State troops, 110 rifles & 20,000 rounds of ammo. They later release the FS troops.
#OnThisDay 1916 Tom Kettle, the poet & Home Rule politician, died at the Battle of Ginchy when he & the 16th Irish Division attacked the village. The Irishmen took the village but at great cost. Interestingly, Lt. Emmet Dalton was present & survived.
#OnThisDay 1890 Dr Dorothy Stopford was born in Dublin. Stopford joined Cumann na mBan & medical officer to the Kilbrittain IRA in Cork during the War of Independence. Later in life she introduced the BCG vaccine & helped eradicate tuberculosis in Ireland.
#OnThisDay 1939 Montague Hulton-Harrop was the RAF’s first fighter pilot casualty at the Battle of Barking Creek. He was shot down in a friendly fire incident by John Freeborn & Dublin-man Flying Officer Vincent Byrne (Pic). Both were acquitted.
#OnThisDay 1920 William Hegarty Section Commander 1st Cork Brigade, IRA was shot dead in Ballymakeera. The British Army left armed troops in a hidden compartment in a supposed abandoned truck & when Hegarty neared the truck for inspection, with the intention to strip and burn it, he was shot & killed.
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