#OnThisDay 1923 Liam Deasy, IRA O.C. First Southern Division was captured by FS troops near Clonmel. Deasy had fought in major engagements like Crossbarry against the British &was present at Béal na mBláth. He avoided execution by ordering his men to surrender.
#OnThisDay 1894 John Brosnan, from Kerry was awarded the Medal of Honor. As a 17 y/o sergeant in Corcoran’s Legion, Brosnan was pinned by enemy fire at the Battle of Petersburg 1864. Brosnan ran out to a wounded comrade & rescued him but had his arm shot off.
#OnThisDay 1921 Private Private Alfred Blitchford Williams (not in pic) serving with the Ox & Bucks Regiment, took his own life while stationed at Ballyvonare Military Camp, Buttevant, Cork. He shot himself in the abdomen while ‘temporarily insane’. He was 18.
#OnThisDay 1921 Constable Robert Boyd (not in pic), from Banbridge Down, was shot dead while off duty&drinking in Mrs Moran’s bar in Cappawhite, Tipperary. Mrs Moran’s niece was hit in the leg by a ricochet. Afterwards two businesses in the town were set ablaze in reprisal.
#OnThisDay 1921 Joseph Tormey & Patrick Sloane, IRA from Westmeath were shot dead in Ballykinlar prisoner camp for standing too close to the wire fence. An inquiry ruled it ‘justifiable homicide’. Tormey’s brother James was killed two weeks later in an ambush.
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