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  • April 22nd

    1855

    Private Joseph Bradshaw from Dromkeen, Co. Limerick serving in 2nd Bn The Rifle Brigade and another private on their own attacked and captured a Russian rifle pit situated among rocks overhanging the Woronzoff Road. The pit was occupied every night by the Russians and its destruction was of great importance.

    1870

    Still in Russia. Lenin was born, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov.

    1903

    At Daratoleh in Somaliland (Somalia), Major John Gough from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary was awarded a Victoria Cross when he assisted, under fire, two other officers who were with a mortally wounded comrade. They managed to get him on a camel, but he was wounded again and died immediately. Brigadier General John Gough died of wounds on the Western Front on 22nd Feb 1915. His father and uncle were also VC recipients.

    1915

    The Germans initiated chemical warfare by using chlorine gas in the Ypres salient, signalling the start of the 2nd Battle of Ypres.

    1994

    Former US President, Richard Nixon, died, aged 81.

    Died

    1916

    3298 Pte William Phelan 7th Bn Leinster Regt. Died of wounds Western Front. From Waterford City.

    1917

    W/405 Sergeant John McKeown. From Waterford City. KIA Western Front serving in 16th Bn Cheshire Regt.

    3571 Gunner Edward Stapleton. From Waterford City. Died Western Front serving in the Royal Garrison Artillery.

    1943

    Patrick Maher, son of Thomas and Annie Maher of Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary. He was aged 22, a Bar Steward in the Merchant Navy when he was killed aboard MV America.
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    • 22nd April.

      HavocIRL is born. The world rejoyces.
      To close with and kill the enemy in all weather conditions, night and day and over any terrain

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      • Happy Birthday, belatedly.:D
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        • April 23

          1014

          It was Good Friday and that means the Battle of Clontarf. King Brian Boru drove the Danes from Ireland and was killed at the moment of victory by Brodir.

          Actually the truth, as so often in Irish history, is not as simple as that. Brian’s enemy was the King of Leinster and Norsemen fought on both sides. The battle over, the survivors went about their lives and Ireland’s Norsemen contributed a fair bit to Irish heritage. If you live in Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Howth or Helvick, your homeplace has a Norse name. Even the name Ireland is what the Norsemen made of Eireann. And all those Fitzs, Joyces, Butlers, Burkes and Roches just made a few stops along the way before getting here :D.

          1564

          It's William Shakespeare's birthday and also his anniversary. He died on his 52nd birthday in 1616. Anybody who has played Trivial Pursuit will recall that he bequeated his wife, Ann, his second best bed.

          1661

          The Stuarts were back (temporarily). Charles II was crowned King after the Restoration of the Monarchy. Those who had beheaded his Father got short shrift and even poor old Oliver Cromwell was dug up and hung pour encourager les autres.

          Died

          1915


          3/3132 Pte John Smith from Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary. KIA Western Front with the 1st Bn Yorks & Lancs.

          1916

          6577 Pte William McGrath , 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA Western Front. From Waterford City.

          1917

          26101 Bdr Edmond O'Brien, 11th Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. Died of wounds on the Western Front Aged 34. He was the husband of Ellen O'Brien, Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary. His three brothers also served in the war and survived.


          1918

          CH/21243 Pte David O'Sullivan Royal Marine Light Infantry from Tallow, Co. Waterford. He is buried in a CWGC Cemetery in Flushing in the Netherlands. Presumably his body washed ashore on neutral Holland after the Zeebrugge raid.
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          • April 24

            1906

            William Joyce was born in New York to an English mother and an Irish father. The family moved to Mayo in 1909 and to England after the 1921 truce, Joyce’s father being a Unionist. In 1923 William joined the British Fascisti but left in 1925. In 1932 he joined Moseley’s British Union of Fascists and became its Director of Propaganda and Deputy Leader in 1934. In 1937 he had a falling out with Moseley and left the BUF to form the British National Socialist League. In 1939, facing internment for the duration of the war, Joyce fled to Germany, where he broadcast propaganda to Britain until the final days of the war. He was nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw because of his voice. His final broadcast was on 30 April 1945. He was captured near Flensburg after the war’s end and tried for treason. He was executed in Wandsworth Prison on January 3rd 1946, a few days after John Amery who had tried to form a Freikorps from British POWs to fight for Germany.

            1915

            CSM Frederick Hall of the 8th Manitoba Regt, Canadian Army earned a Victoria Cross at St Julian in the Ypres Salient. He made two attempts to rescue a wounded comrade under enemy fire but was killed at the second attempt. Fred Hall emigrated to Canada in 1910 and lived in Pine St, Winnipeg. Two other men from the same street alse earned a VC in WW1 and it was later renamed Valour Rd by the city . Incidentally this is the third Paddy the Canadians have claimed in a couple of months. : (

            1916

            It was Easter Monday. Approximately 2000 Irish Volunteers led by Padraig Pearse seized control of several points around Dublin city. Pearse read the Proclamation of Independence from the steps of the GPO in Sackville St and the Easter Rising commenced in Dublin. Initially the rebels had the upper hand since there were only about 500 troops in Dublin. But they were quickly reinforced and the rising suppressed within a week. Approx 450 government soldiers died and about 75 rebels. The rebel names are reproduced here or as many as I could find anyway since the exact dates of death are unknown.

            John Adams, Thomas Allen, William Burke, Andrew Byrne, James Byrne, Louis Byrne, Charles Carrigan, Philip Clarke, Sean Connolly, James Corcoran, Edward Costello, John Costello, John Crenigan, John Cromien, Charles Darcy, Brendan Donelan, Patrick Doyle, John Dwan, Edward Ennis, Patrick Farrell, James Fox, George Geoghegan, John Healy, Sean Howard, Sean Hurley, John Keely, Con Keating, Gerald Keogh, Francis Macken, Peader Macken, Michael Malone, Peter Manning, James McCormack, William McDowell, Charles Monaghan, Michael Mulvihill, Richard Murphy, Daniel Murray, Richard O’Carroll, Patrick O’Connor, Patrick O’Flanagan, John O’Grady, The O’Rahilly, John O’Reilly, Thomas O’Reilly, John Owens, James Quinn, Thomas Rafferty, George Reynolds, Fredrick Ryan, Domhnall Sheehan, Patrick Shortis, John Traynor, Edward Walsh, Philip Walshe, Thomas Weafer, Patrick Whelan, Peter Wilson, Richard Kent.


            1980

            Operation Eagle Claw met with disaster in Iran. Col Charles Beckwith’s Delta Force was supposed to rescue the 52 American hostages held by Iran since the overthrow of the Shah the previous November. The plan was to set up a refuelling area at a location codenamed Desert 1 to refuel Delta Force’s helicopters. The D Force men would then be flown to a location south east of Tehran and be trucked in to the city the following night for the hostage rescue. The choppers would take them and the hostages to an abandoned airfield near Tehran which was to be secured by Army Rangers, from which transport planes would evacuate everybody. At 2200 on the 24th Beckwith and his men were at Desert 1 when a bus load of Iranians turned up and had to be taken prisoner. They were quickly followed by a fuel truck which was destroyed and a pick up which escaped. The helicopters were late arriving due to a sandstorm and two had to be abandoned due to mechanical problems. At Desert 1 another chopper went down and Beckwith scrubbed the mission. As they took off to fly back to the USS Nimitz, a helicopter collided with a C-130 and crashed, killing 8 men.

            1982

            Britain suffered it’s first casualty of the Falklands War when a Sea King helicopter ditched in the sea. He was Petty Officer Kevin Casey from HMS Hermes. The heli pilot was rescued.

            1993

            A PIRA truck bomb at Bishopsgate devastated the financial district of London, killing one man, a News of the World journalist named Edward Henty and injuring 40.

            Died

            1915

            1st Bn Royal Irish Regt

            9487 PteThomas Connell. KIA Western Front. From Waterford City.

            9208 Pte John Flynn. KIA Western Front. From Tramore, Co. Waterford

            7199 Pte Thomas Leahy. KIA Western Front. From Killenaule, Co. Tipperary.

            2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt

            8385 L/Cpl Thomas Doheny. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

            1916

            2/Lt James Howard Calvert, 6th Bn Royal Irish Rifles KIA Dublin. Buried at Seagoe Cemetery, Co. Armagh.

            Lieutenant Gerald Aloysius Neilan, 10th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. KIA at the Mendicity Institution on Usher Island, Dublin.Aged 34. Son of John Neilan, of Ballygalda, Roscommon. Buried at Glasnevin Cemetery, Co. Dublin.

            2/Lt F.R. O'Neill, Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

            2/Lt Guy Vickery Pinfield, 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars KIA Dublin. Aged 21. Buried in Dublin Castle grounds, later moved to Grangegorman Military Cemetery.

            Capt Alan L. Ramsay, 3rd Royal Irish Regiment. He was killed in the attack on the South Dublin Union, aged 26. Son of Daniel Ramsay, of Ballsbridge, Co. Dublin. Buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Co. Dublin.

            Captain Alfred Ernest Warmington, 6th Bn Royal Irish Regiment.He was killed in the attack on the South Dublin Union and was the son of Alfred Warmington, of Naas, Kildare. He was initially buried at King George V Military Hospital, Dublin and later moved to Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Co. Dublin.

            1917

            43103 Pte Patrick Croke 1st Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Died on the Western Front. From Killenaule, Co. Tipperary.

            1918

            Capt Learo Alymer Henry Hackett, 10th Bn Royal Irish Rifles. Son of Edward A. and Emilie Elliott Hackett, of Castletown, Ballycumber, King's Co. Born Clonmel

            42300 Bdr Patrick Coady 255th Siege Bty, Royal Garrison Artillery Son of Mr. T. Coady, of 18 O'Neill St, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

            13007 L/Cpl William Walsh 2nd Bn, Devonshire Regt. From Waterford City.

            M2/018649 Pte Arthur Warmington Royal Army Service Corps. From Fethard, Co. Tipperary.

            1940

            Able Seaman James O’Toole died aged 37 aboard the S.S. Rydal Force He was the husband of Kathleen O'Toole, Ballsbridge, Dublin. His brother John also died on service.

            1943

            6466329 Fusilier Thomas Wood, Royal Fusiliers. Son of Thomas and Josie Wood, Cashel, Co. Tipperary. KIA Tunisia.

            1945

            Able Seaman, Patrick Tyrrell, died aboard the S.S. Monmouth Coast. He was the husband of Julia Tyrrell, Arklow, Co. Wicklow
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            • April 25

              Today is ANZAC Day. The date was chosen to coincide with that of the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli, where 8,000 of them would die over the next 9 months. 4,000 Irishmen died at Gallipoli, but we have no Sedd El Bahr day or Suvla Day.

              1599

              Oliver Cromwell was born.

              1874

              Guglielmo Marconi , inventor of the radio, was born.

              1915

              Allied forces land on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. From an Irish point of view, the story is largely about the landing of the 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers and the 1st Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers from the River Clyde at V Beach near Sedd el Bahr. The plan was to run the River Clyde ashore, form gangplanks with barges and disembark the troops. There was a problem forming the gangplank and when it was resolved the troops had to dash ashore through heavy machine gun fire. Then one of the barges drifted away and soldiers who jumped into the water were dragged down by the weight of their equipment and drowned. The landings commenced at 0630 hrs on the 25th and all troops were not disembarked until 0100 on the 26th. In their first 36 hours in Gallipoli the RDF lost 637 men and Second Lt Desmond O’Hara from Ballincollig was the battalion commander. By April 30th the Munsters and the Dubs were amalgamated for 6 weeks or so into one battalion known locally as the Dubsters.
              1st Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was also part of the 29th Division and landed at X Beach.

              The 1st Bn Lancashire Fusiliers landed at W Beach near Cape Helles. Johnny Turk was ready and they lost a lot of men moving up the beach. The survivors had to cut barbed wire entanglements and storm the Turkish machine gun posts on the cliffs overhead. After the battle six men were elected to receive a Victoria Cross and one of them was Pte William Kenneally from Ireland. He was killed in action on 29 June in Gallipoli.

              1916

              Francis Sheehy Skeffington was arrested on Portobello Bridge by a British Army patrol and taken to Portobello Barracks.

              Mrs Bagwell from Marlfield, Co. Tipperary was shot and wounded while driving through Harcourt St. It was never determined which side the bullet came from. The good lady made a full recovery.

              1938

              The British government cedes the Treaty Ports of Spike Island, Bere Island and Lough Swilly to the Free State Government.

              1940

              Col Frank Slade was born in New York. He was the lad who threatened to take a flamethrower to a school in “Scent of a Woman”. He is less well known as Al Pacino. :D

              1945

              The US and Soviet armies link up on the River Elbe in Germany.

              1951

              After a 3 day battle on the Imjin river in Korea, the Gloucestershire Regiment was wiped out.

              1999

              Lord Killanin, former president of the International Olympic Committee, died in Dublin, aged 84.

              Died

              1915

              8379 Pte James Dunne 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. KIA, Gallipoli. From Waterford City.

              6464 Pte John Hearne 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died of wounds, Western Front, From Waterford City.

              70304 Driver John Bell, 57th Bty. 43rd How. Bde., Royal Field Artillery. Son of John Bell, Finglas, Dublin. Executed by Firing Squad.

              1916

              Killed by Michael O’Callaghan of the Irish Volunteers when they tried to arrest him at Lisvernane, Co. Tipperary

              67560 Constable John Hurley RIC
              56214 Sgt Thomas Rourke RIC
              Both men were from Co. Cork and stationed in Tipperary Town.

              1918

              1884 Guardsman Joseph Marrett, Guards Machine Gun Battalion. Killed in action, Western Front, From Waterford City.

              1923

              Lt Patrick Kennedy Free State Army. From Golden, Co. Tipperary. Died of Wounds.

              1943

              7043583 Fusilier Leonard Keating, 1st Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. KIA Tunisia he was the son of Johanna Keating McEnerny from Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary.
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              • April 26

                1865

                John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin was shot dead by US troops in Virginia.

                1894

                Rudolf Hess, the high ranking Nazi who flew to Britain to negotiate a peace, was born. He died in Spandau Prison, Berlin in 1987.

                1915

                Cpl William Cosgrove from Co. Cork, serving with 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers in Gallipoli won a Victoria Cross at Sedd el Bahr leading his section in an attack on Turkish positions.

                1916

                In Portobello Bks Dublin, Capt Bowen-Colthurst ordered the summary executions of Francis Sheehy Skeffington and two other men named Dickson and McIntyre. Bowen-Colthurst was later Court-Martialled and found guilty but insane. None of the three men had taken part in the rising. Sheehy Skeffington was in fact a pacifist.

                The British gunboat Helga bombarded rebel positions from the Liffey. Artillery in the city also began to bombard the GPO. Reinforcements from England landed at Kingstown. Rebels in the St Stephen’s Green area were driven back to the Royal College of Surgeons.

                1937

                The German pilots of Franco’s Condor Legion bombed Guernica.

                1982

                The Argentine Cruiser General Belgrano accompanied by two destroyers Piedra Buena and Bouchard sailed out of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego for the Falkland Islands.

                Died

                1915

                3230 Pte Michael Clancy 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA Ypres. From Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary

                9893 Pte Joseph Collins 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA Ypres. From Waterford City.

                10427 Pte James Dunphy from Kilmacow, Co. Waterford. KIA on the Western Front with 1st Bn The Connaught Rangers.

                17716 Pte William Kennedy from Waterford City serving with 2nd Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. KIA on the Western Front.

                1916

                Lieutenant Harold Charles Daffen, 2/8th Sherwood Foresters. KIA Dublin. He was the son of Charles Daffen, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire and is buried at Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Co. Dublin. He was aged 23.

                Captain Frederick Christian Dietrichsen, 2/7th Sherwood Foresters. KIA at Lower Mount Street, Dublin, aged 33. He was the husband of Beatrice and is buried at Dean's Grange Cemetery.

                2/Lt William Victor Hawken, 2/7th Sherwood KIA Dublin, aged 31. From Westminster. Buried Westminster City Cemetery, Middlesex.

                Lieutenant Percy Claude Perry, 7th Sherwood Foresters. KIA Dublin, aged 33. Son of G. Perry, of Nottingham. Buried at Nottingham General Cemetery.

                1941

                Died aboard the S.S. Henri Mory serving in the Merchant Navy


                Able Seaman Denis Driscoll. Son of Florence and Mary Driscoll. Cape Clear, Co. Cork

                Ordinary Seaman John Kavanagh. Son of Andrew and Ethel Kavanagh. Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
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                • Rudolf Hess, the high ranking Nazi who flew to Britain to negotiate a peace
                  hmmnn, I always thought Hess was on a total solo run, had zero autorization from Hitler to negotiate a peace....
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                  • April 27

                    1859

                    Pte George Richardson of The Border Regt won a Victoria Cross in India by capturing an armed enemy soldier despite being wounded himself.

                    1916

                    In Dublin rebel positions in the South Dublin Union and Boland's Mill were attacked by British
                    Troops. The GPO was still under fierce bombardment. James Connolly was wounded leading an assault from the GPO to set up an outpost. General Sir John Maxwell took over as C-in-C Ireland.

                    At Hulluch, France the 16th Irish Division suffered a heavy German gas attack. The 8th Bn Royal Irish fusiliers, 8th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers and 7th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers bore the brunt of the attack. The Inniskillings suffered 260 casualties.

                    1981

                    An isolated Irishbatt listening post near Sultaniyah, Lebanon was attacked by the PLO. Pte Hugh Doherty was killed and Pte Kevin Joyce taken prisoner. Pte Joyce’s fate has never been satisfactorily discovered.

                    1999

                    A NATO bomb missed a targeted army barracks and killed 20 civilins in Surdulica, Serbia.
                    Meanwhile near the town of Meja, Kosovo, Yugoslav troops executed over 100 men from a caravan of fleeing refugees.

                    Died

                    1915

                    6446 Cpl Patrick Doherty from Waterford City died of wounds on the Western Front serving with 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt.

                    1916

                    9203 L/Cpl Michael Croke from Waterford City. Died in Mesopotamia with 1st Bn The Connaught Rangers.

                    27702 Pte John Daye 7th Royal Inniskilling Fus. KIA Western Front from Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford.

                    1921

                    59414 DI Gilbert Potter RIC. Executed in the Comeragh Mountains by the IRA in retaliation for the execution of

                    1923

                    Volunteer Michael McGrath, IRA. From Powerstown, Co. Tipperary. He was shot dead shortly after capture by Free State soldiers from Kickham Bks, Clonmel.

                    1941

                    P/KX79640 PO Thomas Griffin from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, serving with the Royal Navy, died aboard the destroyer, HMS Diamond. The previous day HMS Diamond had evacuated 600 troops from Crete. Whilst landing these men she was attacked by Ju-87s and sank with the loss of 148 crew.

                    1943

                    2716913 L/Sgt David O'Connor from Cahir, Co. Tipperary. KIA Tunisia with 1st Bn, Irish Guards. At this time the Irish Guards were fighting their way to Tunis and were ngaged in action at Djebel Bou Azoukaz.

                    1944

                    Died in Germany

                    Able Seaman Owen Corr. Merchant Navy, Son of Laurence and Jane Corr from Rush, Co. Dublin.
                    Able Seaman Thomas Murphy. Merchant Navy, Husband of Ellen Murphy, Dublin.
                    Both men are buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery.

                    1981

                    Pte Hugh Doherty 48th Irishbatt. KIA by the PLO serving with UNIFIL.
                    Pte Kevin Joyce MIA.
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                    • hmmnn, I always thought Hess was on a total solo run, had zero autorization from Hitler to negotiate a peace....

                      Probably was on a solo run. Being a member of the Nazi party dispenses with the need for logical thought. I haven't read into the event in any great detail but suing for peace seems the only logical reason unless he thought he was going to be offed by Adolf. Maybe he just fancied a holiday in Scotland.:D
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                      • Maybe he just fancied a holiday in Scotland
                        Quite possibly - his only other claim to fame was to live in a prison after which a pretty crap early-80's new-romantic band named themself...or did the Kemp Brothers name their band after the German MG of WWII??? That said "True" was a good song...& I suppose "gold" wasn't too bad....

                        Either way, crappy name for a band - now how's that for getting off a thread???
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                        • Spandau Ballet. Jaze a blast from the past. And they were worse actors.:D The name of the band was originally The Makers and featured only one Kemp brother. They did a tour to Berlin and spotted the Spandau Ballet graffitti on a wall near the prison.

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                          • April 28

                            1789

                            The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinied.

                            1881

                            Billy the Kid escaped from Lincoln County Jail.

                            1916

                            In Dublin the GPO was now untenable as the building was ablaze. In an attempted breakout to Moore Street, The O’Rahilly and 20 men were killed attempting to storm the barricade blocking the street. Small groups managed to reach Moore St from the GPO during the day and by nightfall the building had been evacuated. The rebels tried to work their way down through the line of houses under heavy fire.

                            1937

                            It’s Saddam’s birthday. 67 today. Have a good one. :D

                            1943

                            L/Cpl John Kenneally, 1st Bn Irish Guards won a Victoria Cross in Tunisia by carrying out a one man charge on a group of Germans. He repeated the act two days later though this time he was accompanied by another man. He died on 27th Sept 2000. After the war Winston Churchill said that John Kenneally’s actions had restored his faith in the Irish.

                            John Kenneally was Irish. Unfortunately the man who won the medal wasn’t. He was Leslie Jackson or sometimes Robinson, illegitimate son of a Birmingham prostitute. His father was allegedly Jewish. Leslie was in a TA Artillery unit when the war broke out. He did time in detention in Wellington Bks for going AWOL and, impressed by the Irish Guards he saw there he tried to transfer in but was refused. So he deserted and got work on a building site where he obtained the ID card of an Irish labourer who had gone home, one John Patrick Kenneally, who joined the Irish Guards and won a VC. John went on to fight in Italy, Germany and Palestine.

                            1945

                            Benito Mussolini ran out of luck. He was captured by Italian partisans and executed. So was his mistress Clara Petacchi.

                            1986

                            The Soviet government announced the Chernobyl disaster to the world. The accident happened two days previously.

                            Died

                            1915

                            6169 Pte Patrick Walsh from Waterford City killed in action on the Western Front serving with 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt.

                            1916

                            Killed at Ashbourne, Co. Meath.

                            County Inspector Alexander Gray RIC. Aged 57.
                            District Inspector Harry Smith RIC.

                            2/Lt Charles Love Crockett, 12th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. KIA Dublin
                            Buried at Londonderry City Cemetery.

                            2/Lt B. Worswick, King Edward's Horse, killed at the Guiness Brewery, Dublin.

                            2/Lt George R. Gray, 4th Royal Dublin Fusiliers KIA Dublin, aged 22. He was the son of the late Alexander and Helen, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. He is buried at Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Co. Dublin.

                            2/Lt Algernon Lucas, 2nd King Edward's Horse, killed at the Guiness Brewery, Dublin, aged 37. He was buried in Dublin Castle grounds, later moved to Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Co. Dublin.

                            2nd Lieutenant A. Hunter, 2nd King Edward's Horse. Killed at the Guiness Brewery, Dublin.

                            Michael O’Rahilly- The O’Rahilly, Irish Volunteers. He died of wounds in Sackville Lane off Moore Street, Dublin.
                            1917

                            9524 L/Cpl Edward Stokes from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. KIA on the Western Front serving with 2nd Bn East Lancashire Regt.

                            1918

                            4807 Pte Patrick Grant serving with 4th Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died Cobh Co. Cork. From Glenmore, Co. Kilkenny.

                            Z/805 Rifleman Frederick Guest, 1st Bn The Rifle Brigade. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Cappoquin, Co. Waterford.
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                            • April 29

                              1856

                              A peace treaty between England and Russia brought an end to the Crimean War.

                              1864

                              Assistant Surgeon William Manley from Dublin won a Victoria Cross in New Zealand during the Maori War. During the storming of a Maori pah he risked his his own life going to the assistance of wounded men. He died in England in 1901.

                              1916

                              In Dublin the Easter Rising ended when Padraig Pearse surrendered to the British Army. The decision to surrender was taken in a house at 16 Moore St by Patrick and Willie Pearse, Joseph Plunkett, Tom Clarke and Sean Mac Diarmada.In 6 days fighting 450 people died, 2,614 were injured, and 9 were missing, The British army suffered 116 dead, 368 wounded and 9 missing, the RIC and DMP had 16 killed and 29 wounded. On the Republican side 64 men were killed. 254 non combatants also died. Believe it or not Dublin Corporation want to demolish 16 Moore St, a place of great significance in Irish History.

                              The following Volunteers died in the 1916 Rising;

                              John Adams, Thomas Allen, William Burke, Andrew Byrne, James Byrne, Louis Byrne, Charles Carrigan, Philip Clarke, Sean Connolly, James Corcoran, Edward Costello, John Costello, Henry Coyle, John Crenigan, John Cromien, Charles Darcy, Brendan Donelan, Patrick Doyle, John Dwan, Edward Ennis, Patrick Farrell, James Fox, George Geoghegan, John Healy, Sean Howard, Sean Hurley, John Keely, Con Keating, Gerald Keogh, Francis Macken, Peader Macken, Michael Malone, Peter Manning, James McCormack, William McDowell, Charles Monaghan, Michael Mulvihill, Richard Murphy, Daniel Murray, Richard O’Carroll, Patrick O’Connor, Patrick O’Flanagan, John O’Grady, The O’Rahilly, John O’Reilly, Thomas O’Reilly, John Owens, James Quinn, Thomas Rafferty, George Reynolds, Fredrick Ryan, Domhnall Sheehan, Patrick Shortis, John Traynor, Edward Walsh, Philip Walshe, Thomas Weafer, Patrick Whelan, Peter Wilson.


                              The 16th Irish Division again suffered a heavy German gas attack at Hulluch. The 8th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers suffered 180 casualties. This time the gas blew back over the German lines.

                              1945

                              The German Army in Italy surrendered to the Allies. In Germany the US Army liberated Dachau and Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun.

                              Died

                              1915

                              21135 Pte Patrick McGreal, Son of John and Kate McGreal, of 44, Galtee Terrace, Castle St., Waterford. Died of wounds, aged 20, on the Western Front serving with 8th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

                              10356 Pte James McMahon of the 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Died in Wales.

                              1916

                              16196 Pte Albert Wall 7th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers from Waterford. Died of wounds on the Western Front.

                              Major Percival Havelock Acheson, Army Service Corps from Fermoy, Co. Cork. Husband of Mrs P. Acheson. He was KIA in Dublin and is buried at Castlehyde Church, Co. Cork.

                              Lieutenant Philip Adson Purser, Army Service Corps. He was killed returning to Dublin from Kingstown, aged 20. He was the son of William Purser, of Dublin. He was initially buried in Dublin Castle grounds and later moved to Grangegorman Military Cemetery.
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                              Say NO to violence against Women

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                              red headed old dear got a smack on her ginger head

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                              • 1946

                                Japanese wartime leader Tojo Hideki was indicted for war crimes having previously tried to shoot himself in September 1945

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