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  • Robertson did indeed do it. Bloody cavalry.


    Asked by Lloyd George to step down as CIGS [ they didn't get on very well ]
    "Are they trying to shoot down the other drone? "

    "No, they're trying to fly the tank"

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    • 1803

      Robert Emmet was executed in Dublin.


      In a particularly nasty fashion.
      "Are they trying to shoot down the other drone? "

      "No, they're trying to fly the tank"

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      • Originally posted by Groundhog
        [B] Sept 20th

        1327

        King Edward II of England was assassinated in Berkley Castle. Fans of Braveheart will remember him as the faggoty Prince married to the fine French filly. He was murdered on the orders of the same fine French thing by having a red hot poker shoved up his arse. The theory is that this would leave no marks on the body, other than a very blistered arse.
        Apparently they used a funnel. There weren't even any blisters.
        Meh.

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        • I heard a rams horn was used....


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

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          • Sept 21st

            1170

            Diarmuid MacMurrough and and his Normans allies marched on the Norse kingdom of Dublin.

            1601

            A Spanish army under Don Juan del Aguila landed at Kinsale.

            1745

            The Jacobites were victorious at Prestonpans

            1795

            The Battle of the Diamond took place between the Peep o' Day Boys and the Catholic Defenders near Loughgall, Co. Armagh.

            1857

            Sgt Patrick Mahoney of the 1st Madras Fusiliers (later Royal Dublin Fusiliers), helped in the capture of the Regimental Colour of the 1st Regiment of Native Infantry. He was KIA a month later.


            1881

            Eamonn Ceannt was born in Co. Galway.

            1941


            Five Irish merchant seamen from the City of Waterford were killed when the Walmer Castle was attacked by German aircraft as she sailed in Convoy OG 74 to Gibraltar. They had been rescued after a collision on Sept 19th.

            1949

            The Republic of Ireland soccer team beat England 2-0 at Goodison Park. It was England’s first defeat by a foreign side.

            2000

            The Gardaí arrested a man in connection with the bombing of Nelson’s Pillar in O’Connell Street, Dublin in 1966.

            2001

            Bertie Ahern announced that Ireland will put its airports, airspace, refuelling facilities and garda intelligence at the disposal of the US in the battle against terrorism.

            Died

            1914

            9966 L/Cpl Henry Moore, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Rifles. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Waterford.

            1915

            7611 Pte James Shanahan, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Aglish, Co. Waterford.

            1941
            Killed aboard the Walmer Castle


            Captain Thomas Aplin.

            Ordinary Seaman Edward Kearney.

            Sailor Patrick Murphy.

            Sailor Samuel Naylor.
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            • Sept 22nd

              1798

              Government forces under Colonel Trench marched from Castlebar and took Ballina

              1821

              Patrick Moore, a Confederate General, was born in Galway.

              1884

              HMS Wasp was wrecked off Tory Island, Co. Donegal, with the loss of 52 lives. There were eight survivors.

              1914

              HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy were all sunk in the North Sea by a German U-Boat. The submarine was the U-9, commanded by Commander Otto Weddigen. He fired one torpedo at the Aboukir which began to sink and capsized in 30 minutes. The other two ships stopped to take on survivors, assuming that Aboukir had hit a mine. U-9 manoeuvred around the stricken Aboukir and fired two torpedos at Hogue, which went down in 10 minutes. An hour after hitting Aboukir Weddigen fired his last 3 torpedos at Cressy. She sank in 15 minutes. The three ships were old cruisers unable to sail at more than 12 knots. The captains were not even zig zagging due to the assumption that there were no submarines in the area. Over 1400 sailors died.

              1918

              The British army captured Haifa and Nazareth, Palestine.

              1920

              At Rineen, near Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, the IRA ambushed and killed 6 RIC men. The Black and Tans wrecked the town that night.

              The RIC men killed were Sgt Michael Hynes, Constables Reginald Hardman, Michael Harte, John Hodnett, Michael Kelly and John Maguire. The ambush party was commanded by the local IRA Comdt Ignatius O’Neill, ex-Irish Guards. He was wounded when a large party of soldiers appeared on the scene after the ambush and a running battle commenced.

              Earlier that day the IRA had killed a local magistrate in the area.

              1980

              Iraq invaded Iran starting a war that would last eight years.

              1989

              The IRA bombed a Royal marine band in Kent, killing ten people.

              Died

              1914

              10502 Pte Michael Hennessey, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died of wounds on the Western Front. He was from Waterford.

              1916

              6167 Pte Thomas Bacon from Tallow, Co. Waterford. He was killed in action on the Western Front, serving in 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was born in Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary.

              1918

              10445 Pte John Pender, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. Killed in action in Palestine. He was from Waterford.
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              • Sept 23rd

                1586

                In Co. Mayo, the Battle of Ardnaree is fought. The Government forces of Sir Richard Bingham, governor of Connacht, took on the Burkes, who were represented by a large force of Scottish mercenaries. 2000 died and the leaders of the Burke Clan did the Tyburn Two-Step.

                1641

                In Ulster, the native Catholics rebelled and slaughtered their Protestant neighbours. No change there then.

                1798

                A bad day for Mayo. The Second Battle of Killala ends in the surrender of the combined French and Irish forces to the English.

                1803

                The Battle of Assaye was fought in India. Maj-Gen Arthur Wellsley conquered another bit of the sub-continent for the Empire and satisfactorily concluded the Mahratta War, just in time to go to Spain and thrash the damn French.

                1906

                Mary Edith Coleman died at Blackrock, Co. Dublin. As a member of the Red Cross she had cared for both French and German wounded in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. Known as Mrs Alsager, she was decorated by Kaiser Wilhelm with the Order of the Iron Cross. Probably a unique decoration for an Irish lady.

                Died

                1943

                1511663 Sgt William Maher from Clonmel. He was KIA in Germany serving with 419 SQDN, RAF. He is interred in a communal grave in Rheinberg War Cemetery along with 3 of his comrades.
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                • Sept 24th

                  1661

                  The splendidly-named Faithful Tadpole was admitted as a clerical vicar choral of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

                  1725

                  The patron saint of Irish drinkers, Arthur Guinness was born in Celbridge, Co. Kildare.

                  1786

                  Charles Bianconi was born in Italy. He set up the first Irish passenger-car service between Clonmel and Cahir.

                  1801

                  Yet another two Irish MPs engaged in a duel James Moore O'Donell was killed by Major Denis Bingham.

                  1880

                  Co. Mayo landagent, Captain Charles Boycott, was sent to Coventry and thus gave his name to the English language.

                  1914

                  In Alsace-Lorraine the German Army captured St. Mihiel.

                  1915

                  Bulgaria mobilized troops on the Serbian border.

                  Died

                  1916

                  40102 Pte Percy Hayden,10th Bn Scottish Rifles, from Waterford. Died of wounds on the Western Front.

                  10061 Pte Patrick Walsh from Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny. Died of wounds on the Western Front serving in 1st Bn Irish Guards.

                  1950
                  Executed by the North Korean Army at Taejon Monastery, South Korea


                  Fr Tom Cusack from Co. Clare.

                  Fr Jack O’Brien from Co. Roscommon.

                  1952

                  PFC John White from Co. Kerry. A member of the 1st Marine Division he died while a Prisoner of the North Korean Army. His body was never recovered.
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                  • Sept 25th

                    1066

                    The Battle of Stamford Bridge was fought. No it wasn’t the Millwall V Chelsea supporters. It was a battle between King Harold Godwinson’s Saxons and King Harold Hardrada’s Vikings in Yorkshire. Tostig, brother of Harold Godwinson, fought with the Vikings and was killed along with Hardrada. Hardly had the Saxons broken open a celebratory cask of mead when news came that a little known chap named William had landed in Pevensey Bay with a bunch of Normans. Harold set off to give the bastard a clip in the ear.

                    1857

                    At the relief of Lucknow, during the Indian Mutiny two men with Irish connections earned the VC.

                    Assistant Surgeon Valentine McMaster brought in and attended to the wounded under enemy fire. He died in Belfast in 1872.

                    On 25 September 1857 at Lucknow, India, when the troops penetrated into the city, Captain William Olpherts from Co. Armagh of the Bengal Artillery, charged on horseback with the 90th Regiment when they captured two guns in the face of very heavy fire . He later returned, again under heavy fire with horses to tow away the captured guns.


                    1915

                    The Big Push began in France. Six British Divisions attacked the Germans at Loos in a battle that would last until Oct 19th. It was a big push by comparison with previous efforts but miniscule in comparison with the Somme and Paschendaele. A famous Irish participant was Patrick McGill who served with the London Irish. He wrote a novel called “The Big Push”, part of it, as he waited to advance from his trench against the Germans. He also wrote this poem about the battle called;

                    In the Morning

                    The firefly haunts were lighted yet,
                    As we scaled the top of the parapet;
                    But the east grew pale to another fire,
                    As our bayonets gleamed by the foeman’s wire;
                    And the sky was tinged with gold and grey,
                    And under our feet the dead men lay,
                    Stiff by the loop-holed barricade;
                    Food of the bomb and the hand-grenade;
                    Still the slushy pool and mud -
                    Ah, the path we came was a path of blood,
                    When we went to Loos in the morning.

                    A little grey church at the foot of a hill,
                    With powdered glass on the window-sill -
                    The shell-scarred stone and the broken tile,
                    Littered the chancel, nave and aisle -
                    Broken the altar and smashed the pyx,
                    And the rubble covered the crucifix;
                    This we saw when the charge was done,
                    And the gas-clouds paled in the rising sun,
                    As we entered Loos in the morning.

                    The dead men lay on the shell-scarred plain,
                    Where Death and the Autumn held their reign -
                    Like banded ghosts in the heavens grey
                    The smoke of the powder paled away;
                    Where riven and rent the spinney trees
                    Shivered and shook in the sullen breeze,
                    And there, where the trench through the graveyard wound
                    The dead men’s bones stuck over the ground
                    By the road to Loos in the morning.

                    The turret towers that stood in the air,
                    Sheltered a foeman sniper there -
                    They found, who fell to the sniper’s aim,
                    A field of death on the field of fame;
                    And stiff in khaki the boys were laid
                    To the sniper’s toll at the barricade,
                    But the quick went clattering through the town,
                    Shot at the sniper and brought him down,
                    As we entered Loos in the morning.

                    The dead men lay on the cellar stair,
                    Toll of the bomb that found them there.
                    In the street men fell as a bullock drops,
                    Sniped from the fringe of the Hulluch copse.
                    And the choking fumes of the deadly shell
                    Curtained the place where our comrades fell.
                    This we saw when the charge was done
                    And the east blushed red to the rising sun
                    In the town of Loos in the morning.


                    During the battle Pte Henry Kenny, 1st Bn The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, earned a VC when he went out on six occasions under very heavy fire to rescue wounded men. He was wounded himself bringing in the last wounded soldier. Henry was born in London to Limerick parents.

                    1918

                    Brazil declared war on Austria.

                    1961

                    Ronnie Whelan was born in Dublin. He played for Home Farm, Liverpool, Reading and the Republic of Ireland. He scored spectacularly against the USSR in Hanover during Euro88.

                    1983

                    19 IRA prisoners escaped from the Maze prison.

                    1982

                    Comdt Michael Lynch was awarded a MMG for an act of bravery whilst serving in Lebanon.

                    Died

                    1914

                    Killed in action on the Western Front serving in 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt.

                    10007 Pte Thomas Colbert. Aglish, Co. Waterford.

                    6172 Pte Michael Quinn. Waterford.

                    1915

                    19555 Pte Patrick Hayes, 2nd Bn South Wales Borderers. He died in Gallipoli. From Waterford.

                    943 Pte John Markley, from Dungarvan. Co. Waterford. He was killed in action on The Western Front serving in 10th Bn Highland Light Infantry.

                    5197 L/Cpl James Parker,2nd Bn Royal Irish Rifles He was killed in action on the Western Front. He was a native of Templemichael, Co. Waterford.

                    The 2nd Bn Royal Irish Rifles also lost a pair of brothers killed on this day. 2/Lt Kenneth Ross, age 25, and 2/Lt Melbourne Ross, age 30. They were from Cultra, Co. Down, the sons of George and Henrietta Ross. Both of them are commemorated on the Menin Gate.

                    1916

                    747 L/Sgt Maurice Boland, 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. He died on the Western Front. From Cappoquin, Co Waterford.

                    25280 2nd Cpl Thomas McCarthy MM, Royal Engineers. Killed in action on the Western Front. He is buried in the Guards Cemetery, Lesbouefs, Somme, Framce. He was from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

                    1917

                    Thomas Ashe died on hunger strike. He was in the Mater Hospital in Dublin.

                    1982

                    Comdt Michael Nestor. Killed whilst serving with UNTSO in Lebanon.
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                    • Sept 26th

                      1820

                      Daniel Boone died in Defiance, Missouri at age 85.

                      1857

                      At the relief of Lucknow in the Indian Mutiny the Irish team went on a VC-fest.

                      Assistant Surgeon William Bradshaw, 90th Regiment was ordered to remove the wounded men left behind when the troops forced their way into the Residency. The surgeon managed to get some bearers together and Assistant Surgeon Bradshaw, with about 20 dhoolies, after becoming separated from the rest of the party, succeeded in reaching the Residency in safety. William was from Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

                      A 24-pounder gun which had been used against the enemy on the previous day was left in an exposed position under heavy fire from the mutineers. Private Thomas Duffy, 1st Madras Fusiliers, fastened a rope to the gun so that it could be pulled away and was saved from falling into the hands of the enemy. Tom was from Co. Westmeath.

                      Elsewhere a party of men was shut up and besieged in a house Pte Peter McManus of the 5th Foot stayed outside the house until he himself was wounded, and under cover of a pillar kept firing on the sepoys and prevented their rushing the house. He also, helped by Pte John Ryan, dashed into the street and took a wounded captain out of a dhooly and carried him into the house in spite of heavy fire in which the captain was again wounded.In addition to this Pte Ryan devoted himself during the day to rescuing the wounded in the neighbourhood from being massacred.
                      Neither man survived the mutiny. Pte McManus was KIA at Allahabad on the 27th April 1859 and Ryan at Cawnpore 4th March 1858.

                      1916

                      At Thiepval, France, part of the line was held up by machine-gun fire and all the officers had become casualties. There was confusion and indication of retirement. Pte Frederick Edwards, 12th Bn., The Middlesex Regiment from Queenstown, Co. Cork, grasping the situation and on his own initiative, dashed out towards the gun, which he knocked out with his bombs. This very gallant act, coupled with great presence of mind and disregard of personal danger, made further advance possible and cleared up a dangerous situation.

                      1918

                      The Battle of the Argonne started.

                      Died

                      1916

                      8459 Pte William Gough, 1st Bn Irish Guards. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Waterford.

                      3326 Sgt John Myers, 11th Bn Manchester Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was the son of Jeremiah and Catherine Myers, 18 Thomas St, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

                      11589 L/Cpl William Walshe, Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Carrickbeg, Co. Tipperary.

                      1917

                      14308 Pte James Molloy Tramore, Co.Waterford. Killed in action Western Front 1st Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers.

                      Two Waterford City men also died on the Western Front on this day

                      27508 Pte Jeremiah Nevin, 10th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

                      150820 Gunner Frederick Smith, Royal Field Artillery.
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                      • Sept 27th

                        1858

                        At Kuthirga, India, Ensign Patrick Roddy, of the Kupperthula Contingent, Bengal Army earned a VC in hand to hand combat with a mutineer. Pat was from Co. Roscommon.

                        1903

                        Victor Beamish was born in Dunmanway, Co. Cork. He was a Group Captain in the RAF during WW2 and fought in the Battle of Britain.

                        1915

                        The Guards Division entered Loos and captured Hill 70. Amongst the casualties was Lt John Kipling, the 18 year old son of the poet, Rudyard Kipling. John was given a commission in the Irish Guards due to his father's friendship with Lord Roberts, even though he had no Irish connections at all. He was posted missing presumed killed on this day. In 1917 the remains of an Irish Guards Lieutenant were recovered from the old No Mans Land and buried, unidentified in St Mary's ADS Cemetery, Haisnes. The find was recorded at the wrong map reference, causing much confusion since the Guards had been in action five miles from that area. The mistake was spotted and rectified in the 30s and, since Lt Kipling was the only unaccounted-for Officer of the Irish Guards at that place the headstone in St Mary's ADS Cemetery was changed from An Unknown Lt of the Irish Guards to a named headstone.

                        1941

                        IRA man, George Plant from Fethard, Co. Tipperary, shot dead Michael Devereaux from Co. Wexford, near Grangemockler, Co. Tipperary. Devereaux was suspected of being an informer. Plant was eventually convicted and executed for the crime.

                        Died

                        1915

                        12459 Pte Albert Douch, 7th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Killed in action, Gallipoli.

                        7258 Pte Michael Sutton, 2nd Bn Irish Guards. Killed in action on the Western Front.

                        Both from Waterford.

                        1916

                        52432 Gunner Edward Cavanagh, Royal Field Artillery. Died in Mesopotamia. He was from Waterford.

                        Two men from Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford who died today

                        8504 Pte Michael O'Connor, 3rd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died at home.

                        10035 Pte John Power, 1st Bn Irish Guards. Died of wounds on the Western Front.

                        1917

                        Major Sidney Toppin, 151st Heavy Bty, Royal Garrison Artillery. He died on the Western Front and is buried in Ljissenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. Sidney Toppin was borne in Clonmel, the son of Major-General James Toppin who must have been serving in the Artillery Barracks there at the time.

                        235684 Pte James Humphries, 2nd Bn, Royal Scots. Died of wounds on the Western Front. He was from Waterford.

                        1918

                        11431 Pte Michael Gough, 1st Bn Irish Guards. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Carrigerea, Co. Waterford.

                        6739 Pte David Prendergast, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Dungarvan.
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                        • Sept 28th

                          1066

                          William the Conqueror invaded England to stake his claim the throne of England.

                          1690

                          John Churchill took Cork for King William.

                          1785

                          Napoleon Bonaparte graduated from the military academy in Paris at the age of 16. He finished 42 in a class of 51, so he was obviously not going very far.

                          1857

                          At Bolandshahr, during the Indian Mutiny, the Irish contribution scored well once more on the VC tables;

                          Sgt Bernard Diamond and Gnr Richard Fitzgerald were both awarded a VC when they continued to work their gun under heavy fire and when the rest of the crew had been killed or wounded. Both men were in the Bengal Artillery.

                          In the 9th Lancers at the same time and place Pte Patrick Donoghue, earned a VC when he rescued a wounded officer from a large contingent of enemy cavalry. Pte Donoghue was from Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

                          1915

                          The Battle of Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia ends in victory for the British.

                          1920

                          The IRA captured the military barracks in Mallow, Co. Cork.

                          1944

                          The Battle of Arnhem ended in defeat for the British airborne division in Holland. Nobody has told the Paras yet though.

                          1998

                          200 years of military history come to an end in Fermoy and Ballincollig as the barracks are evacuated.

                          2001

                          Martin O’Hagan, a journalist, was killed in a shooting in Lurgan, Co. Armagh

                          Died

                          1915

                          S4871 Pte Timothy Barron, 9th Bn The Black Watch. Died of Wounds on the Western Front. He was from Tallow, Co.Waterford.

                          1917

                          2709 L/Cpl James Quann, 16th Bn Manchester Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Waterford.

                          1963

                          Comdt Thomas McMahon died in the Congo.
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                          • Sept 29th

                            1758

                            Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.

                            1902

                            William McGonagall died in Edinburgh. He is renowned as the worst poet of all time. One of his poetic gems, is reproduced below.

                            [i]The Hero of Rorke's Drift

                            Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time,
                            And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of the line;
                            But suddenly he paused, for he heard a clattering din,
                            When instantly two men on horseback drew rein beside him.

                            "News from the front!" said one, "Awful news!" said the other,
                            "Of which, we are afraid, will put us to great bother,
                            For the black Zulus are coming, and for our blood doth thirst,"
                            "And the force is cut up to pieces!" shouted the first.

                            "We're dead beat," said both, "but we've got to go on,"
                            And on they rode both, looking very woebegone;
                            Then Henry Hook put all thought of cooking out of his mind,
                            For he was surrounded with danger on every side he did find.

                            He was a private of the South Wales Borderers, Henry Hook,
                            Also a brave soldier, and an hospital cook;
                            A soldier of the Queen, who was always ready to obey,
                            And willing to serve God by night and day.

                            Then away to the Camp he ran, with his mind all in a shiver,
                            Shouting, "The force is cut up, sir, on the other side of the river!"
                            Which caused the officer in command with fear to quiver,
                            When Henry Hook the news to him did deliver.

                            Then Henry Hook saluted, and immediately retired,
                            And with courage undaunted his soul was fired,
                            And the cry rang out wildly, "The Zulus are coming!"
                            Then the alarm drums were instantly set a-drumming.

                            Then "Fall in! Fall in!" the commanders did cry,
                            And the men mustered out, ready to do and to die,
                            As British soldiers are always ready to do,
                            But, alas, on this occasion their numbers were but few.

                            They were only eighty in number, that brave British band,
                            And brave Lieutenant Broomhead did them command;
                            He gave orders to erect barricades without delay,
                            "It's the only plan I can see, men, to drive four thousand savages away."

                            Then the mealie bags and biscuit boxes were brought out,
                            And the breastwork was made quickly without fear or doubt,
                            And barely was it finished when some one cried in dismay,
                            "There's the Zulus coming just about twelve hundred yards away."

                            Methinks I see the noble hero, Henry Hook,
                            Because like a destroying angel he did look,
                            As he stood at the hospital entrance defending the patients there,
                            Bayoneting the Zulus, while their cries rent the air,
                            As they strove hard the hospital to enter in,
                            But he murdered them in scores, and thought it no sin.

                            In one of the hospital rooms was stationed Henry Hook,
                            And every inch a hero he did look,
                            Standing at his loophole he watched the Zulus come,
                            All shouting, and yelling, and at a quick run.

                            On they came, a countless host of savages with a rush,
                            But the gallant little band soon did their courage crush,
                            But the cool man Henry Hook at his post began to fire,
                            And in a short time those maddened brutes were forced to retire.

                            Still on came the savages into the barricade,
                            And still they were driven back, but undismayed.
                            Again they came into the barricade, yet they were driven back,
                            While darkness fell swift across the sun, dismal and black.

                            Then into the hospital the savages forced their way,
                            And in a moment they set fire to it without dismay,
                            Then Henry Hook flew to assist the patients in the ward,
                            And the fighting there was fearful and hard.

                            With yell and shriek the Zulus rushed to the attack,
                            But for the sixth time they were driven back
                            By the brave British band, and Henry Hook,
                            Who was a brave soldier, surgeon, and hospital cook.

                            And when Lord Chelmsford heard of the victory that day,
                            He sent for Henry Hook without delay,
                            And they took the private before the commander,
                            And with his braces down, and without his coat, in battle array grandeur.

                            Then Lord Chelmsford said, "Henry Hook, give me your hand,
                            For your conduct to day has been hereoic and grand,
                            And without your assistance to-day we'd been at a loss,
                            And for your heroic behaviour you shall receive the Victoria Cross."


                            Died

                            1918

                            Two Clonmel men died on the Western Front today.

                            Lt Francis Langhorne. 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was Killed in action and was buried in Bourlon Wood Cemetery, France.

                            76949 Gnr William Ryan, Royal Artillery. He is commemorated on the Vis en Artois Memorial.

                            1920

                            Two RIC Constables killed by the IRA at Killoskehane, Co. Tipperary


                            64194 Con Terence Flood. Born Drumsna, Co. Leitrim.

                            70978 Con Edward Noonan. Born Co. Galway 23/4/1894.

                            1992

                            Cpl Peter Ward was killed by the Hizballah near Al Jurn, Lebanon. He was the car commander of a Sisu APC, going to assist the Irish Checkpoint in Al Jurn which was under attack from Hizballah. The same group opened fire on the APC and Cpl Ward was shot dead.
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                            • Sept 30th

                              1888

                              “Jack the Ripper" killed Elizabeth Stride and Kate Eddowes.

                              1938

                              At Munich the Sudetenland was ceded from Czechoslovakia to Germany by France and Britain.

                              1969

                              Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were freed from Spandau prison after serving twenty years.

                              Died

                              1915

                              Killed in action on the Western Front serving with 2nd Bn Irish Guards.


                              6842 Pte Peter Larkin from Waterford.

                              6820 Pte Edward Lenihan from Ballyduff, Co. Waterford.

                              1916

                              11978 L/Cpl James Sealy, 1st Bn Royal Scots. Killed in action in Salonica. He was from Waterford.

                              1968

                              Cpl Philip Bancroft from Belfast was KIA in Vietnam serving with the USMC.
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                              Say NO to violence against Women

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                              My favourite moment was when the
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                              red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

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                              • Originally posted by Groundhog
                                Sept 30th

                                Other things that happened on that date....
                                1788
                                Lord Raglan was born.
                                He was the army Field Marshall responsible for the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclave

                                1938
                                Neville Chamberlain arrived home to london with a piece of paper that brought Peace to Europe. Hitler disagreed though,and invaded Poland less than a year later,after which Neville resigned,and later died.

                                1994
                                Boris Yeltsin arrived in Shannon,and Albert Reynolds waited on the tarmac to meet him. However,Boris had other ideas,and didnt leave the safety of the aircraft. His aides explained he had been advised not to get off the plane because of his blood pressure.
                                I Imagine Alberts blood pressure wasnt too good either,as he gave up waiting an hour later..


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

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