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  • #16
    O'Leary VC

    Ok I found out why:

    "O'Leary was a reservist who was recalled when war broke out. He enlisted initially in the RN before being discharged as a result of rheumatism in his knees. After a spell of working as a farm labourer at home, he was restored to full health and joined the Irish Guards. In 1913 he left the Army on completin of his term of enlistment and went to Canada where he joined the RNWMP with whom he served until war broke out and he went to Britain to rejoin the Micks."

    Courtesy of Doherty & Truesdale "Irish Winners of the VC"

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    • #17
      February 2

      1882


      James Joyce, author, was born in Dublin. His most famous book, Ulysses, was published in Paris in 1922. Joyce lived in Zurich during World War 1 where he got into trouble with the British Consul for not registering for war service. His enemy, the Consul, appears in Ulysses as Sgt Major Percy Bennet a champion boxer. Another enemy from that time gave his name to the drunken soldier, Henry Carr, who abuses Leopold Bloom.

      Died

      1946


      322023 Nurse Bridget O'Sullivan. Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service in Rangoon, Burma. Daughter of Fred and Mary O'Sullivan, Clonmel, Co.Tipperary.

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      • #18
        February 3

        1919


        The inaugural meeting of the League of Nations opens in Paris.

        Died

        1915

        5801 Pte Michael Hennessy, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. At Home. From Waterford City.

        1967

        Sp4 Timothy Daly 4 Inf Div. In Vietnam. From Co.Limerick

        February 4

        Died

        1917

        10342 Pte John Kennedy, 1st Bn Royal Lancaster Regt. Western Front.
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        • #19
          February 5

          Died

          1918

          10357 Pte Patrick Lambe. 2nd Bn Leinster Regt. Western Front. From Clonmel.

          February 6

          1901

          Sgt William Traynor, 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regt won a VC.

          At Bothwell Camp, South Africa, during a night attack, Sergeant Traynor ran out of a trench, under fire, to help a wounded man. While running he was wounded, and being unable to carry the man himself called for assistance. A lance-corporal came to him and between them they carried the wounded soldier into shelter. Afterwards, in spite of his wounds, Sergeant Traynor remained in command of his section, encouraging his men until the attack ended.

          1952

          George VI died at Sandringham aged 56.
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          • #20
            George VI..Euthenasia?


            Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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            • #21
              He had lung cancer so maybe. I certainly wouldn't stop him.

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              • #22
                February 7

                1979

                Josef Mengele died in Brazil. The Nazi doctor known as the Angel of Death selected those who died and those who were to be kept for his hideous experiments in Auschwitz.

                1992

                The European Union is born.

                Died

                1915


                4053 Pte John Harty. 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. From Waterford.
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                • #23
                  February 8

                  1857


                  Atthe Battle of Khoosh-ab, in Persia, Lieutenant Arthur Moore , Adjutant of the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry, won a Victoria Cross by leaping on his horse into an infantry square of 500 Persians. He was accompanied by his brother Ross, who was 6 foot 7 inches tall and weighed 18 stone according to Doherty and Truesdale. Both their horses were killed in the process and the two brothers and a third officer named Malcolmson were soon under extreme pressure from the enemy. Ross Moore hacked his way out of the square on foot while Arthur climbed behind Malcolmson and breached the square on horseback. Meanwhile the rest of the regiment exploited the braech and broke the infantry square. Lt Moore was born in Carlingford, Co. Louth in 1830. He later rose to the rank of Major General and died on 25 April 1913 in Dublin. Poor old Ross never got a mention though Malcolmson also got the VC.

                  1902

                  Also on this day in 1902 Captain Arthur Martin-Leake of the South African Constabulary won a VC for rescuing a wounded man under fire from the Boers at Vlakfontein. While dealing with a second wounded man he was shot himself.

                  Aged 40 he was working with the Indian Railways when World War 1 started. He travelled to France himself and enlisted at the British Consulate in Paris. He then attached himself to the first British medical unit he found. A t Zonnebeke in Belgium in the First Battle of Ypres he rescued several wounded men under enemy fire. He was awarded a bar to is VC, one of only three men to achieve the second award. In light of that fact I put him in here even though he has no Irish connection. He later became a Lt Colonel and died in 1953.

                  Died

                  1944


                  14218097 Rifleman Patrick Howard, 1st Bn London Irish Rifles. Buried Anzio War Cemetery, Italy. Son of Kathleen Howard, Clonmel.
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                  • #24
                    February 9

                    Died

                    1918

                    20646 Rifleman John Galligan 1st Bn Royal Irish Rifles in France. Son of Thomas and Bridget Galligan 10 Peter St, Clonmel.

                    1953

                    Pte John Dillon 7th Infantry Div, US Army. In Korea. Born Co. Limerick
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                    • #25
                      February 10
                      1951 The Goon Show is first aired on BBC...
                      Terence Spike Milligan met Harry Secome while serving in the British Army during WW2,where Milligan was a gunner in the Royal Artillery,And were later Joined by Peter Sellers following his Demob from service Post war..Michael Bentine Joined initially...and comedy,and indeed respect for authority was never the same agaaaaaaaaaaaaa.................

                      SPLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!




                      (he's fallen in the wawter........)


                      Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                      • #26
                        Arthur Martin-leake one of the 2 double VC winners of the RAMC, the other being Godfrey Chavasse.

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                        • #27
                          February 10

                          Died


                          1915

                          10625 L/Cpl Michael Walsh. 2nd Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. KIA Western Front. From Cappoquin, Co.Waterford.

                          1917

                          7793 Gnr William Ryan. RGA. Western Front from Butlerstown, Co.Waterford.

                          1981

                          CS James Martin. 50th Irishbatt. Lebanon.

                          February 11

                          Died

                          1915

                          5400 Pte Patrick Corcoran. 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. KIA Western Front. From Lismore Co.Waterford.

                          1917

                          Col Robert Carew. Royal Munster Fusiliers. At Home. Buried Waterford.
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                          • #28
                            February 12

                            Lieutenant Commander Eugene Esmonde won a Victoria Cross on this day in 1942.

                            Born in Yorkshire March 1st 1909, his father was a doctor from Drominagh, Co. Tipperary. The family returned home when Eugene was a year old. His great uncle Thomas Esmonde won a VC with the Royal Irish Regt in the Crimean war. Another ancestor was hung during the 1798 rebellion.

                            Eugene Esmonde joined the RAF in 1928 and left after a few years. He joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1939, first with 754 Sqdn and then as OC of 825 Sqdn flying Fairey Swordfish. He won a DSO for leading his squadron in an attack on the Bismarckin May 1941. After this his squadron was transferred to the carrier HMS Ark Royal in the Mediterranean. After the aircraft carrier was damaged in November 1941the squadron was transferred ashore to England.

                            In February 1942 the German battleships Gneiseau and Scharnhorst and the cruiser Prinz Eugen left Brest harbour and sailed through the English Channel to Wilhelmshaven in an episode that became known as the Channel Dash. Naturally the British were anxious to destroy these ships but also avoid the humiliation of having the German Navy sail within spitting distance of the Engish coast. As part of the attacks on the ships Esmonde’s 825 Sqdn were ordered to carry out a torpedo attack on the Prinz Eugen in the Straits of Dover. All six of the squadrons aircraft were destroyed in the action either by AA fire from the ships or by the escorting German fighters.

                            Only 5 of the 18 crewmen survived the attack. Lt Cdr Eugene Esmonde was among the dead. Despite the fact that his plane was hit and ablaze, his two crewmen were already dead and he himself probably dying, he continued his torpedo run on the Prinz Eugen. His plane crashed into the sea after the torpedo had been released.

                            Lt Cdr Esmonde’s mother was presented with his VC on March 17th 1942 at Buckingham Palace by King George VI. The day before he died, Eugene Esmonde had been at the same place being presented with his DSO. His body was washed ashore in April and he is buried in Woodlands Cemetery in Gillingham.

                            Died

                            1937


                            Christopher "Kit" Conway at the Battle of Jarama, Spanish Civil War.

                            1951

                            Captured in Korea. PFC William Murphy from Cork serving with the 2 Inf Div, US Army. He died in captivity on May 18th.
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                            • #29
                              February 13

                              1917


                              Mata Hari arrested for spying by the French.

                              1945

                              The RAF and USAF commence bombing Dresden. 800 Lancaster bombers in three waves pounded the city for 14 hours during the night dropping 1,478 tons of high explosive bombs and 1,182 tons of incendiaries which started a firestorm. The RAF lost six planes. The aerial bombardment continued the next day when 300 US bombers raided the city. An estimated 50,000 civilians died. Some people regard the destruction of a virtually defenceless city as a war crime. Bomber Harris said he did not regard 'the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier'.

                              Died

                              1917

                              G/716 Pte Aloysius White. 11th Bn Middlesex Regt. Died At Home. From Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.

                              1951
                              Korea
                              2 Inf Div US Army.


                              Cpl Michael Gannon. Co.Mayo
                              PFC Michael King. Co. Roscommon.
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                              • #30
                                February 14

                                1855


                                Corporal William Lendrim of the Royal Engineers won a Victoria Cross by superintending the rebuilding of a damaged artillery battery position under heavy fire. On 11 April he got on top of a magazine under fire, and extinguished burning sandbags. On 20 April he was one of four volunteers who destroyed the screen which the Russians had erected to conceal their advance rifle-pits.

                                1895

                                Sean Treacy, Vice Commandant 3rd Tipperary Brigade, was born in Soloheadbeg Co.Tipperary. He took part in the Soloheadbeg ambush in January 1919 and was killed in action in Talbot St, Dublin 14th October 1920.

                                Died

                                1779


                                Captain James Cooke. Killed by natives in Hawaii.

                                1915
                                Western Front

                                1st Bn Royal Irish Regt.


                                6753 Pte Martin Jackson. Waterford City.
                                5907 Pte Thomas Long. Waterford City.
                                8358 Cpl Thomas Mason. Cappoquin, Co.Waterford.

                                1st Bn Leinster Regt.

                                3142 Pte Matthew Dooley. Fethard, Co.Tipperary.
                                7099 Cpl Patrick Herlihy. Lismore Co.Waterford.
                                8919 Pte Edward Murphy. Co.Waterford

                                On Sunday Feb 14th 1915 The Germans attacked an area known as the Mound near St Eloi in the Ypres Salient and captured several trenches near it. The 1st Royal Irish and 1st Leinsters counter attacked and recaptured the lost positions. The attack was led by the Bn Comd of the Royal Irish, Lt-Col Forbes, a descendant of the founder of the regiment. The lads named above must have died in the battle for the Mound.

                                1916

                                28603 Bdr William O’Toole. RGA. Waterford City. KIA Western Front.

                                2000

                                Lebanon while serving with 86th Irishbatt.

                                Pte Declan Deere
                                Pte John Murphy
                                Pte Matthew Lawlor
                                Pte Brendan Fitzpatrick
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