#OnThisDay 1917 Captain Richard Hemphill RFC from Birr, Offaly died near Cairo, when he fell out of his airplane. Originally with the 6th Leinsters, Hemphill was a medical student in Trinity before the war & often volunteered in Dublin’s missions.
#OnThisDay 1921 Roscommon IRA ambushed a truck carrying British Army & Black and Tans at Scramogue, near Strokestown. Three of the crown forces were killed in the attack. The IRA took rifles, a machine gun, ammo & two British prisoners who were later executed.
#OnThisDay 1921 Six members of IRA Cork No. 1 Brigade were killed by Black and Tans at Clogheen outside of Cork City. The post-mortem found that the bodies of the six men were badly shot up at close range indicating that they were killed after surrendering.
#OnThisDay 1862 Brig. Gen. James Shields from Tyrone defeated Confederate General Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of Kernstown. Shields’s force outnumbered Jackson’s 2:1. Although wounded, Shields’s men under Col. Kimball drove the Confederates from the field.
#OnThisDay 1847 Leaders of the Choctaw Nation gathered in Oklahoma & collected $170 for “the relief of the starving poor in Ireland”. This gift was to help Irish people during the Famine, from a people who had also suffered expulsion, death & misery.
Thank You.
The Irish at War 