#OnThisDay 1920 20 members of the Tipperary IRA ambushed a patrol of RIC including some Black and Tans at Kilcommon Cross. They killed 4 & wounded 3 but their main target, a sergeant named Bray managed to evade detection by hiding in a house till the IRA left.
#OnThisDay 1916 Corporal William Meehan, Royal Irish Regiment, from near Cashel, Tipperary was killed in action. His position in Cooker Farm near Ypres was shelled by German troops killing Meehan & wounding 9 others. He was 32 and married.
#OnThisDay 1920 Rev. Canon Magner PP of Dunmanway Cork was shot dead by a British Auxiliary called Harte for not tolling his church bells on Armistice Day. Harte was found guilty of murder but declared insane at the time of the shooting. By 1923 he was free. #Ireland #History
#OnThisDay 1917 Brigadier General Surgeon Bernard J.D. Irwin died. Irwin was born in Roscommon but emigrated to America. Irwin was awarded the first (chronologically) Medal of Honor for his actions rescuing a unit, besieged by Apache in Arizona in 1861. #Ireland #History
#OnThisDay 1899 George Edward Nurse VC, from Enniskillen was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Colenso, in the Boer war. He assisted some officers in retrieving isolated guns under intense enemy fire & brought them back into action.
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