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August 16th
1819
The Peterloo Massacre occurred in Manchester when soldiers fired on unemployed demonstrators at St. Peter's Field.
1914
Liege surrendered to the German Army.
Von Kluck’s First Army and von Bulow’s Second cross the Meuse river.
Adolf Hitler enlisted in the 1st Company of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry.
1917
The 16th (Irish)and 36th (Ulster) Divisions were committed to the Passchendaele Campaign when the Battle of Langemarck commenced at 04.45 hrs. As usual, heavy fighting means an increase in the days casualties from this area. 15 men from Co. Waterford and from South Tipperary died on the Western Front on this day.
During the days fighting L/Cpl Frederick Room of the 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt earned a Victoria Cross. In charge of the stretcher bearers, Freddy worked under heavy fire at dressing wounds and evacuating the wounded. Happily he survived the war, but he died in Bristol in 1932, aged 47. L/Cpl Room wasn't Irish but he was the fourth and last member of the Royal Irish to earn a VC.
1982
GUBU entered Irish politics when, Malcolm McArthur, wanted for the murder of a nurse named Bridie Gargan, was found in the flat of Patrick Connolly, the Attorney General.
Taoiseach, Charlie Haughey, when told of the event, said it was grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented. Conor Cruise O’Brien used the acronym to describe FF politics.
Died
1915
Killed in action or died of wounds in Gallipoli
5th Bn Royal Irish Regt
121 Sgt W. Couch. Enlisted Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
189 Sgt Thomas Walsh. Waterford.
2000 Pte Patrick Carey. Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
54 Pte John Sheehan. Fews, Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford.
206 Pte Peter Sullivan. Crooke, Co. Waterford.
7th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers
21949 Pte Patrick Fraher.
14202 Pte Thomas Whitney.
Both from Waterford.
6th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers
16793 Pte John Field. Waterford.
1917
Killed in action or died of wounds on the Western Front
1st Bn Royal Irish Rifles
8019 Rifleman Patrick O'Brien
10322 Rifleman John Doyle
9487 L/Cpl Thomas Lonergan.
All from Waterford.
2nd Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Capt James Owen Shine. His father was Col. J. Shine, Abbeyside, Dungarvan.
40035 Richard Mooney, Fews, Co. Waterford.
2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt
2566 Pte Francis Banks MM. Carrick-on- Suir, Co. Tipperary.
9481 Pte Edward Fitzgerald, Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford.
6th Bn Connaught Rangers
4197 Pte Denis Marshall. Carrick-on- Suir.
8475 Pte William Walsh. Son of Thomas and Statia Walsh, Clonmel. Buried Potizje Chateau Lawn Cemetery, Belgium.
Other Units
25583 Pte Thomas Leahy, 7th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. From Dungarvan.
7948 Pte James Barry, 7th Bn Royal Irish Rifles. From Waterford.
16101 Cpl Patrick Dalton, 9th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Son of Patrick and Margaret Dalton Kickham St, Carrick-on- Suir.
16199 Pte Denis Sheehan, 9th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. From Waterford. Buried New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium.
8271 Pte John Mc Grath, 1st Bn Machine Gun Corps. From Waterford.
Apart from the two men who's burial places are mentioned, all the others are recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing. The memorial actually begins on this date. All previous missing men in this part of the Ypres salient are commemorated on the Menin Gate.
There are 35,000 names on the Tyne Cot memorial which forms the back wall of Tyne Cot cemetery, in which there are 12,000 graves. 70% of the graves are unidentified.
The village of Langemarck is the site of the only German cemetery in what was the Ypres salient. It holds the graves of over 44,000 men. There are 24,000 unidentified soldiers buried in a mass grave inside the gate of the cemetery. There are some German graves still in British cemeteries. Some undisturbed war-time burials in Tyne Cot, for instance.
1922
Killed in action at Athy, Co. Kildare
Pte Daniel Fogarty. Born Loughmore, Co. Tipperary.
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August 17th
1878
Oliver St. John Gogarty, writer and doctor, was born. He was the model for the ‘stately, plump Buck Mulligan’ in Joyce’s "Ulysses".
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
1914
Russia invaded East Prussia. Gen. Rennenkampf's First Army came from the east, from the south came Samsonov's Second Army. Opposing are German Gen. Max von Prittwitz and Gen. Gaffron's Eighth Army. Germany was forced to withdraw troops from France as Von Moltke moved two corps from Kluck's army to the Eastern front.
1922
The RIC was disbanded to be replaced by the Garda Síochána.
1987
Ruolf Hess died at a Berlin hospital near Spandau Prison aged 93.
Died
1916
9412 L/Cpl William Robinson, 11th Bn The Manchester Regt. Died on the Western Front. He was from Clonmel.
8012 Sgt James Quanne, from Tipperary. A member of 3rd Bn Royal Irish Regt, he died at home in Tipperary Town.
11269 Pte Patrick Power, 6th Bn Royal Irish Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Ballinameela, Co. Waterford.
1918
9104 Pte Robert Cullen, 7th Bn Royal Irish Regt. From Tipperary Town, he died on the Western Front.
1920
Vol Patrick Clancy, IRA, from Co. Tipperary was KIA in Kanturk, Co. Cork.
1922
Pte Michael Costello from Dundrum, Co. Tipperary. A member of the Free State Army he was killed in action.sigpic
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August 18th
1588
A storm shattered the remaining 60 ships of the Spanish Armada leaving 11.
1870
Battle of Gravelotte was fought during the Franco-Prussian War. The Germans won.
Died
1951
PFC Michael Fitzpatrick from Mayo died in Korea serving with 2nd Inf Div, US Army.sigpic
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August 19th
1504
Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the Earl of Kildare, defeated Ulick Burke at the Battle of Knockdoe. There were 10,000 combatants and 2,000 fatalities; Fitzgerald won and was made a Knight of the Garter.
1692
The first execution of witches in Salem, Massachusetts. Five women were hanged. 14 more were to die later in the year.
1887
Francis Ledwidge was born in Slane, Co. Meath. A poet and nationalist, he fought in the Great War in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. KIA 31st July 1917.
"I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy of civilisation and I would not have her say that she defended us while we did nothing but pass resolutions".
Someone should hang that quote on the wall of Leinster House. With a little paraphrasing, it is as relevant today as then.
The Call to Ireland
by Francis Ledwidge
We have fought so much for the nation
In the tents we helped to divide;
Shall the cause of our common fathers
On our earthstones lie denied?
For the price of a field we have wrangled
While the weather rusted the plow,
' twas yours and 'twas mine and 'tis ours yet
And it's time to be fencing it now.
1914
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) is officially formed in France.
1942
The Dieppe raid took place. 5,000 Canadian and 2,000 British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France. Over 3,600 men died. The information gathered from this landing was used to plan the successful Allied landings in Morrocco, Sicily, Italy and Normandy.
Captain John Foote, who was serving as a Chaplain in the Canadian Army, earned a Victoria Cross at Dieppe by attending the wounded and dying in the open under fire. At the battle’s end he left the landing craft on which he would have sailed to safety and walked to the German positions to minister to the Allied prisoners.
Died
1915
Killed in action at Gallipoli.
4458 Pte John Moore, 5th Bn Connaught Rangers from Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary.
89 Pte John Fitzgerald, 5th Bn Royal Irish Regt from Waterford.
1917
43060 Gnr Edward Power, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died of wounds in Salonika. He was from Waterford.
981 Pte Gerard Coughlan, Special Cavalry Reserve. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford.
1922
Vol Michael Condon, IRA, from Newcastle, Co. Tipperary was shot dead by the Free State Army while under arrest in Clonmel Town Hall.Last edited by Groundhog; 13 August 2008, 21:13.sigpic
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August 20th
1860
At the capture of the Taku Forts in China, Hospital Apprentice Andrew Fitzgibbon was with the 67th Foot when he was severely wounded attending to injured men in the open. Andrew was awarded a VC for his courage and is one of the youngest VCs at age 15.
1914
Brussels fell to the German army. The Belgians, personally commanded by King Albert I, retreated to Antwerp.
In the Battle of the Ardennes, advancing French troops battle numerically superior German forces.
In East Prussia, Gen Prittwitz's withdrew to the Vistula River, leaving all of East Prussia in Russian hands. Moltke immediately relieved Prittwitz of his command, appointing in his place 67-year-old Gen. Paul von Hindenburg.
British warships begin confiscating contraband cargoes as part of an embargo on Germany.
1981
Michael Devine became the last hunger striker to die in the Maze Prison.
Died
1914
2397 Pte Patrick Mahoney. 3rd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died at Home. He was from Fethard, Co. Tipperary.
1917
32908 Gnr Michael Day, Royal Field Artillery. From Waterford, he died of wounds on the Western Front.sigpic
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August 21st
1808
The Battle of Vimiero was fought during the Peninsular War in Spain.
1914
The British Expeditionary Force, commanded by Field Marshal Sir John French, moved into Belgium.
Serbia and Austria clashed at the Battle of Sabac, lasting until Aug 24th. Serbia won.
1918
The British 3rd and 4th Armies launched an attack north of the river Ancre (a tributary of the Somme).
Died
1915
Killed in action at Gallipoli
5th Bn Connaught Rangers
930 Pte Patrick King. From Waterford.
4460 Pte James Moran from Dungarvan. Co. Waterford.
9350 Sgt William Lemmon, 6th Bn Yorkshire Regt. From Waterford.
9370 Pte Paul Bregan, 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. From Cappoquin, Co. Waterford.
1916
3378 Pte John Sullivan, 6th Bn Royal Irish Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford.
1918
2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt
7609 L/Cpl James Carberry, Waterford.
6110 Pte James Johnson, Knockboy, Co. Waterford.
7367 Pte Patrick Walsh, Waterford.
5587 Pte Michael Fahy, New Inn, Co. Tipperary. Michael Fahy joined the army in April 1914 and served all through the war. His brother William likewise. William survived the war and was demobbed in 1922 on the disbandment of the regiment. Their grand-nephew is a member of 12th Inf Bn. Michael Fahy was killed by a sniper near Flers, France. He is buried in the AIF Cemetery.
95105 Cpl William Burns MM, 13th Bn King's Liverpool Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front.
1986
Lt Aongus Murphy was killed by a road side bomb near At Tiri, Lebanon.
1988
Pte Patrick Wright died in Lebanon.Last edited by Groundhog; 21 August 2004, 19:44.sigpic
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August22nd
1485
The Battle of Bosworth was fought in England. Richard III was defeated and killed and Henry Tudor was proclaimed King as Henry VII. Henry had landed at Milford Haven in Wales from France and, with the help of French troops, invaded England. He was crowned King in London on 30 October and, in January 1486, Henry VII married Elizabeth of York, the daughter of Edward IV, unifying the two factions of York and Lancaster and ending the civil war, the so-called Wars of the Roses. Henry came from minor Welsh nobility and his descendants would rule until 1603.
1798
General Humbert landed at Killala, Co. Mayo, with 100 French troops.
1802
George Thomas, The Raja from Tipperary died in India.
1914
In Belgium, Cpl Thomas of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, became the first British soldier to fire shots in anger at the enemy in WWI.
Two German armies strike the French under Gen. Charles Lanrezac southwest of Namur, on the Sambre River, forcing him to retreat.
The 2nd Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers landed in Boulogne.
1918
Capt Denis Latimer was shot down in Belgium. A fighter pilot in 20 Sqdn, Dublin-born Latimer shot down 28 German aircraft between March and August 1918. His observer, Lieutenant T.C. Noel, was killed and Latimer was captured. He was sbsequently awarded the Military Cross and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
1922
General Michael Collins, Commander in Chief of the National Army was killed in action at Béal na Bláth, Co. Cork. His convoy was ambushed by a party of irregulars. Collins was the only fatality of the action.
1934
H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition forces during the 1991 Gulf War, was born in Trenton, New Jersey.
His father was the police chief who led the hunt for the kidnappers of Charles Lindbergh’s son. Not many people know that.:D
1933
O’Duffy’s National Guard was banned in Ireland.
1941
The Irish merchant ship Clonlara was torpedoed and sunk by U-564. 11 crewmen died. She was sailing in a British Convoy NE of Spain when hit by 4 torpedos.
1942
Crisis meetings in Berlin as Brazil declared war on Germany.:D
Died
1916
2/Lt Theo Seale, 2nd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary and he died on the Western Front. He is buried in Flatiron Copse Cemetery on the Somme.
1918
33119 Pte Stephen Condon, 13th Bn East Lancashire Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Waterford.
1941
aboard the Clonlara
Captain Joseph Reynolds, Liverpool. Aged 41.
1st Mate John Spanner, 27 Dartmouth Road, Dublin, aged 41.
2nd Mate Peter McGuigan, Lusk, Co Dublin, aged 44.
1st Engineer Robert Spense, Ballybough, Dublin, aged 62.
Fireman, William Carr, 5 Lower Rutland Street, Dublin , aged 29.
Fireman, Edward Greene, 22 Aldboro House, Dublin, aged 27.
Fireman, Edward Kavanagh, 22 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin.
Fireman, Samuel McKane, Dublin, aged 37.
Able Seaman John Lambe,26 Newfoundland Street, Dublin,aged 22.
Able Seaman Archie Robertson, Bruff, Co Limerick, aged 48.
Steward William J Smith, 5 Ropewalk Place, Ringsend, aged 38.
1950
Pte Thomas Ward from Co. Monaghan. Died in Korea serving with the 25th Inf Div, US Army.Last edited by Groundhog; 23 August 2004, 19:42.sigpic
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August 23rd
1170
Strongbow arrived in Waterford.
1305
William Wallace was hanged, drawn, beheaded, and quartered in London.
1833
Aug 23, The dastardly British ordered the abolition of slavery in all British colonies by Aug 1, 1834. 700,000 slaves were freed.
1914
The ancient Belgian fortress of Namur fell to the Germans.
The BEF met the German Army near Mons. The French Army on hearing of the fall of Namur withdrew leaving the British right flank hanging in the breeze. The retreat from Mons began during the night.
Lt Maurice Dease, 4th Bn Royal Fusiliers, from Ballynagall, Co. Westmeath became the first soldier to win a VC in the Great War. In command of a a machine gun section at Nimy Bridge in Mons, he stayed at his post until wounded for a fifth time. He later died of his injuries.
In Galicia the Russians repelled an Austrian offensive over three weeks from today.
Von Hindenburg and Ludendorff took command on the Eastern Front.
1939
The German-Russian Treaty of Non-Aggression, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, was signed. It divided Eastern Europe between the two countries, paving the way to WW2.
Died
1914
Killed in action with 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt on the Western Front
4969 Sgt Denis Walsh from Cappoquin, Co. Waterford.
6820 L/Cpl William Roche, from Waterford City.
7622 Pte John Connolly, from Waterford City.
4834 Pte Patrick Ryan, from Waterford City.
These men were the first men of the Royal Irish Regt to be killed in WW1.
1915
238143 Able Seaman Michael Moylan. A crewman off HMS Centurion, died at home in Ardmore, Co. Waterford.Last edited by Groundhog; 1 September 2004, 05:59.sigpic
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August 24th
79AD
Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum under 13 feet of volcanic ash and pumice. The eruption killed Pliny the Elder Along with 20,000 other people. His nephew, Pliny the Younger, wrote an account of the eruption, describing the gas and ash being violently ejected to a great height and thus lent his name to what vulcanologists call a Plinian eruption.
410AD
Another bad day for the Roman Empire as German barbarians sacked Rome. The Visigoths got inside the walls and everybody had to wear trousers from then on.
1798
A bad day for the British Empire too. Generals Cornwallis and Lake left Dublin for the west to put down yet another rebellion. Lake travelled fast by road with a small force. Cornwallis travelled with the main force down the Grand Canal.
1914
The French fell back in the Ardennes and reorganized west of the Meuse. The main German armies entered France.
In the East there was fierce fighting between Russians and Germans near Frankenau.
1929
Yasser Arafat was born.
1990
Brian Keenan was released in Lebanon after being held more than four years.
Died
1914
Killed in action with 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt on the Western Front
8178 Pte Michael Brien, Kereen, Co. Waterford.
7037 Pte John Dwyer, Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
7309 Pte Stephen Hogan. Carrick on Suir. He is commemorated on a memorial in St Symphorien Military Cemetery, east of Mons.
7288 Pte William Lewis Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
6726 Pte Stephen Ryan, Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
1916
8801 Cpl Edward Troy, 2nd Bn Leinster Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front . He was from Killenaule, Co. Tipperary.
6940 Gunner Martin Dunne, Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Dungarvan. Co. Waterford.
1918
16221 L/Cpl Patrick O'Brien, 1st Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. Killed in action on the Western Front. Buried in Bailleul Communal Cem Ext, France. He was from Clonmel.
77357 Pte Patrick Oswald, from Waterford. He Died in India serving in 2nd Garrison Bn Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
5194 Pte Edward Walsh from Carrick on Suir. KIA in France with 7th Bn Royal Irish Regt.
1943
72361 Capt John De La Poer. Royal Irish Fusiliers attached 8th Gurkhas. Died in Karachi, India. He was from Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary.sigpic
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August 25th
1170
Richard de Clare, Strongbow, married Aoife MacMurrough in Waterford.
1346
The Battle of Crecy was fought in France. Outnumbered 3 to 1, the longbowmen of Edward III’s army decimated the French in a field not far from the Somme, where a British army would be decimated 570 years later.
1769
Henry Flood, MP for Callan, killed James Agar, MP for Tulsk, in a duel. They should re-introduce this literal fighting of elections. The 18th century, when men were men and sheep were nervous. :D
1803
The British captured Robert Emmet.
1875
Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, from Dover to Calais, in 21 hours and 45 min.
1930
Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. A masterful actor, Sean has played an English spy, a Russian submarine commander, King Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood, an Egyptian swordsman all with his native Edinburgh accent.
1970
It’s also Claudia Schiffer’s birthday. She was born in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Claudia models the latest in tactical swimwear in Belgian DPM. Where does she keep her survival tin. :confused:
I’d like to apologise for this gratuitous display of Fraulein Schiffer’s charms. Other sad bastards can see more at http://www.kmmod.com/cschiffer/galleries.htm
Died
1914
2nd Lt John Shine, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Son of Col. J. Shine, Abbeyside, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. Died of Wounds on the Western Front.
1916
16203 Pte William Halpin, 1st Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. Died of wounds on the Western Front. From Waterford.
1918
11094 Pte John Walsh, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford.
Major Francis Anderson, Royal Field Artillery. Died of wounds on the Western Front.
1978
Pte Gerard Moone died in Lebanon.sigpic
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August 25th
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1930
Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. A masterful actor, Sean has played an English spy, a Russian submarine commander, King Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood, an Egyptian swordsman all with his native Edinburgh accent.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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