#OnThisDay 1943 Captain Anthony Boyle from Portnoo, Donegal was killed in action when taking part in a counter attack on German positions on Stuka Ridge in Tunisia. Boyle was 23 & serving with the 6th Inniskilling Fusiliers.
#OnThisDay 1918 2nd Lt Frederick Crowley, from Bantry, Cork, died when his airplane engine stalled & crashed while on a Royal Flying Corps training exercise in Essex. Crowley had arrived at the base two days previous & was on his third flight.
#OnThisDay 1921 Cork IRA, led by Sean O’Hegarty, ambushed a patrol of 46 Auxiliaries at Coolavohig, Cork. They killed three Auxies including commander Major James Seafield Grant. After several hours &RIC reinforcements arriving, the IRA withdrew without losses.
#OnThisDay 1891 Edward ‘Ned’ Daly was born in Limerick. Daly, Commandant of Dublin 1st Batt spent Easter Week holding the strategic Four Courts & areas around it where fierce fighting took place. Daly was the youngest leader to be executed at the age of 25.
#OnThisDay 1877 Tom Crean, the Antarctic explorer was born near Annascaul, Kerry. Crean joined the Royal Navy & rose through the ranks before volunteering for the first of three Antarctic expeditions, most famously with Kildare born Ernest Shackleton in 1914-17.
The Irish at War 