#OnThisDay 1959 William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan passed away. Donovan was a lawyer, served with the New York 69th in WW1, was awarded the Medal of Honor, was head of OSS during WW2, helped Nazi prosecutions at the Nuremberg Trials & was founding father of the CIA.
#OnThisDay 1921 Members of the Third West Cork Brigade (not in pic) captured two soldiers from the King’s Liverpool Regiment in Skibbereen after a failed attack but released them later out of respect for Colonel Hudson who they deemed a decent soldier. #Ireland #History
#OnThisDay 1921 Four IRA men were drowned when their small boat was caught in a storm as they sailed from Moynis to Roundstone in Galway. They were intending to purchase arms. The dead are:
Joseph Green
Joseph Keeley
Patrick Folan
James Ferron
#OnThisDay 1916 Lt. Thomas JC Murdoch from Dunmurray, Co. Antrim was killed in action in France. Murdoch was killed instantly with 5 others of his regiment (24th Manchester Reg.) when a German mortar landed amongst them in the trench. He was 20 years old.
The Irish at War 