#OnThisDay 1921 Major Geoffrey Lee Compton Smith DSO was executed by the IRA after 14 days of captivity& a failed ransom.He wrote in his last letter:
“I should like my death to lessen rather than increase the bitterness which exists between England & Ireland”.
Michael Collins a staff captain in the Volunteers, was Joseph Plunkett’s aide-de-camp in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Collins was held outside the Rotunda & saw Captain Lea-Wilson strip & abuse Tom Clarke. Wilson was later shot dead by the Squad.
#OnThisDay 1916 Mallin & Markiewicz surrender the College of Surgeons, then MacDonagh in Jacobs’ Factory, then Ceannt in South Dublin Union. By 10pm the Rising is over in Dublin. Roughly (+/-) 485 people were killed, 262 civilians, 145 Crown forces & 78 rebels.
Irishmen fought on both sides of the Easter Rising. They made up 35% (41 / 117) of the British military deaths incurred during the Rising and 29% of the wounded (106/ 357). Below are officers from the Royal Irish Regiment with the captured Irish Republic flag.
#OnThisDay 1916 Margaret Naylor was hit by a stray bullet on Ringsend Draw Bridge. Her husband, Pte. John Naylor of the 8th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died that very same day when he was gassed in France. She died two days later leaving three orphaned kids.
The Irish at War 