#OnThisDay 1921 Elizabeth Bray, from Belfast, died of septicaemia from a bullet wound. Bray, who had a hearing impairment, was called upon to stop by a soldier from the Somerset Light Infantry, but as she couldn’t hear him didn’t obey the order and was shot.
#OnThisDay 1921 Brig Gen Frank Crozier, C/O of the Auxiliaries resigned his post. He did this because after he dismissed 21 Auxies after their raids on Trim & Drumcondra, that left several dead, ‘Chief of Police’ Henry Hugh Tudor ordered the 21 men reinstated.
#OnThisDay 1917 Nearly 200 Connaught Rangers set out on a failed raid on German lines at Kemmel, “cheerfully tucking green miniature Irish flags into their caps”. Among the dead was Sgt Augustine Hackett. The Germans allowed the bodies to be recovered.
#OnThisDay 1920 Timothy Quinlisk was executed by Cork IRA. Quinlisk was a WW1 vet, taken prisoner, joined Casement’s Irish Brigade & tried to join the IRA but wasn’t accepted so he became a British spy & tried to organise the capture of Michael Collins.
#OnThisDay 1817 Confederate Walter Paye Lane was born in Cork. Lane was a Texas Ranger, fought for the South (promoted to Brig Gen on Paddy’s Day 1865). After the war, he established the White Citizens Party & restored White Supremacy in Texas.
A bad fella.
The Irish at War 