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Post by groundhog on Oct 31, 2011 13:39:11 GMT
25th October in Irish Military History 1854The Battle of Balaclava was fought during the Crimean War. A famous battle, named after a little port in the Crimea, and giving it’s name to a woolly hat. The most famous part of the battle was a minor engagement involving about 650 British soldiers who were sent to prevent the Russians capturing some allied artillery. Lord Cardigan, the CO, misinterpreted his orders and attacked the wrong guns at the end of a long valley lined with Russian artillery. The skirmish became known as the Charge of the Light Brigade. The participating regiments were the 17th Lancers, 8th Hussars, 11th Hussars, 4th and 13th Light Dragoons. About 150 men died and another 130 were wounded. Over 300 horses died. The officer who carried the fatal message to Cardigan was Irish. The Cherrypickers last Balaclava charger died in Cahir Barracks and was buried under a memorial plaque. A cpy of that plaque is located in the square in Cahir. But the battle also saw two other less famous engagements. The Charge of the Heavy Brigade was one. General Scarlett led the Scots Greys and the Royal Dragoon Guards in an uphill charge against Russian Cavalry and routed them. The same Russian cavalry was later decimated by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, made famous by Kipling as the Thin Red Line, his interpretation of Russell’s description of the thin red streak, tipped with a line of shining steel. 1914 6224 Pte James Keating from Fethard, Co. Tipperary. KIA on the Western Front with 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. 1915 12337 Guardsman Richard Connell from Faha, Co. Waterford. KIA on the Western Front with 4th Bn Grenadier Guards. 1916 S/6802 Pte William Keeffe, 7th Bn Royal West Surrey Regt. William was from Lismore, Co. Waterford and he died of wounds on the Western Front. 191831408 Pte Maurice Keane, Machine Gun Corps. Died in Mesopotamia. He was from Dungarvan, Waterford. 1920Terence MacSwiney, the Mayor of Cork, died in a London prison after 73 days on hunger strike. Vol Michael Ryan from Thurles Co. Tipperary was killed by the security forces in Thurles. |
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Post by groundhog on Oct 31, 2011 13:44:54 GMT
26th October in Irish Military History 1791The United Irishmen was founded. 19168630 Rifleman Peter Henley, 1st Bn Royal Irish Rifles. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Tallow, Co. Waterford. 191728585 Pte Lawrence Keating, 2/5th Bn Loyal North Lancashire Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Fethard, Co. Tipperary. Chaplain Patrick Looby, Army Chaplains' Dept. Died in Belgium. He was from Cahir, Co. Tipperary. 1920William Gleeson, a civilian, was killed by the security forces in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 1922Comdt Paddy Dalton, OC 5th Bn, 3rd Tipp Bde, IRA was KIA by the Free State Army at his home in Donohill, Co. Tipperary. The soldiers had attempted to arrest him but he chose to shoot it out. 1973Israeli forces reached the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War. The ceasefire that ended the war saw the formation of United Nations Emergency Force II (UNEF II). The 25th Irish Infantry Group just deployed to Cyprus was moved to the Sinai for their six month tour. |
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Post by groundhog on Oct 31, 2011 13:51:57 GMT
27th October in Irish Military History 1914HMS Audacious sank after hitting a mine. www.worldwar1.co.uk/audacious.htm10218 Rifleman Richard O'Neill, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Rifles. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Tramore, Co. Waterford 19157763 Rifleman Lawrence Kennedy, 6th Bn Royal Irish Rifles. Son of Martin and Mary Kennedy, Upper Croan, Clonmel. He was Killed in action at Gallipoli. 191610623 Pte Patrick Britt, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. He was from Killenaule. He died in Egypt. 19176574 Pte Edward Power, 3rd Bn Royal Irish Regt. He died at home in Waterford. 2000In Canada, police arrested the men responsible for the bombing of the Air India jet near Ireland in 1985. |
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Post by groundhog on Oct 31, 2011 14:02:17 GMT
28th Oct in Irish Military History 1916 Australians went to the polls for a referendum on conscription. The plan was defeated and all of Australia’s Great War soldiers, including many Irishmen, were volunteers. 34741 Pte Patrick Franklin, 4th Bn King's Liverpool Regt. Killed in action on the Western Front. He was from Waterford. 1920Dinny Lacey’s Column ambushed a British Army convoy atThomastown, Co. Tipperary. Three soldiers died in the attack. One IRA man wounded. Killed were; Pte T Crummey, 1st Bn Northamptonshire Regt. He is buried in Tipperary Town. 1852907 L/Cpl William Hobbs, Royal Engineers. |
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Post by groundhog on Oct 31, 2011 14:07:34 GMT
29th Oct in Irish Military History
1885
Joseph Finegan, from Co. Monaghan, died in Florida. He had been a Confederate General in the American Civil War.
1914
Two men from Cashel, Co. Tipperary, KIA on the Western Front
4520 Sgt John Arthur, 1st Life Guards.
8198 Pte Michael O'Mara, 2nd Bn Manchester Regt.
1916
8026 Pte James O'Shea, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. KIA on the Western Front. From Modeligo, Co. Waterford.
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Post by groundhog on Oct 31, 2011 14:13:11 GMT
30th Oct in Irish Military History 1854In the Crimea Cpl James Owens from Killaine, Co Cavan, serving in the 49th Foot earned a Victoria Cross. 1899 At Nicholson's Nek near Ladysmith, South Africa, two battalions of British troops and an artillery battery were cut off, surrounded and forced to surrender to the Boers. The battalions were of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and Gloucestershire Regt. 191420008 2nd Cpl Henry Charles Leahy, 54th Field Coy, Royal Engineers. Son of Charles W. Leahy, 4 Tivoli Terrace, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. KIA on the Western Front and buried Harlebeke New British Cemetery, Belgium. Two Waterford Men KIA on the Western Front 6499 Rifleman Michael O'Meara, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Rifles. 6320 Pte William O'Reilly, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regt. 1917373700 Rifleman Thomas Meehan, 8th Bn The London Regt. From Dungarvan, Co Waterford, he was KIA on the Western Front. 28816 Gunner John Whelan from Waterford city. KIA on the Western Front with Royal Field Artillery. S4/094598 Pte Edward Looby, Army Service Corps. He died at home and was buried in Newcastle Old Graveyard, Co. Tipperary. He was the husband of Annie Looby, King St, Clonmel. |
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Post by groundhog on Oct 31, 2011 14:18:58 GMT
31st Oct in Irish Military History 1838 General Sir William Francis Butler was born in Bansha, Co. Tipperary. He served in Canada, India, Sudan and South Africa. He died in Bansha Castle on June 7 1910. 1914 Great Britain and France declared war on Turkey. Killed in action on the Western Front 1478 Pte Richard Daughton, 1st Bn Irish Guards. Killenaule, Co. Tipperary. 4200 Pte William Griffiths, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers. Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate. 6506 Pte Thomas O'Toole, 2nd Dragoons. From Waterford City. 19155471 Guardsman Martin Doheny, Scots Guards. Died at home. He was from Waterford. The CWGC has him recorded as Dohney 1917 The British captured Beersheba in Palestine. 1918 The imminent end of the war caused a Revolution in Vienna. An armistice between Turkey and the allies came into effect at noon. 192065081Constable William Madden, RIC. KIA in Ballyduff, Co. Kerry. He was born in Co. Tipperary in 1889. Comdt Thomas O'Donovan, IRA. A native of Glengoole, he was killed in action at Killenaule, Co. Tipperary. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 1, 2011 11:18:16 GMT
1st November in Irish Military History 1914 Heavy fighting continued in the First Battle of Ypres. The Germans captured Messines, Hollebeke and Wytschaete. Killed in action with 1st Bn Irish Guards at Ypres. 2413 Pte William Barry, Kilrossanty, Co Waterford. 558 Pte William Butler, Aglish, Co. Waterford. 1926 Pte Michael Daly, Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford. 4364 Pte John Murphy, Waterford City. 642 Pte William Shanahan, Newtown, Co. Waterford. At sea the Battle of Coronel was fought off the coast of Chile between Admiral von Spee's German squadron and the a Royal Navy Squadron under Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock. The British lost heavily, HMS Monmouth and HMS Good Hope, which were sunk with all hands. Cradock went down with Good Hope. 1920Pte James Daly was executed by firing squad for his participation in the Conaught Rangers Mutiny in India. He is the last member of the British army to be executed for mutiny. In mountjoy Jail, Kevin Barry was hanged. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 2, 2011 9:05:07 GMT
2nd November in Irish Military History 19147585 Pte Martin Colleton, 2nd Bn Connaught Rangers. He was the Son of Catherine Colleton, Mill St, Carrick-on-Suir. He was killed in action at Ypres, age 29 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate. 191825083 Pte Patrick Carrigan, Coldstream Guards. He died at home in Moyglass, Co. Tipperary. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 3, 2011 0:40:36 GMT
3rd November in Irish Military History 1717Col Henry Luttrell was assassinated at Cork Hill in Dublin. He was suspected of having been a Williamite agent during the Siege of Limerick. The assassin stabbed him to death in his sedan chair as he was going home from Lucas’s Coffee Shop then and made good his escape. 19148798 Pte Richard Grant,1st Bn East Lancashire Regt. He was killed in action on the Western Front. From Waterford City. 9095 A/Sgt Patrick Hannigan, 1st Bn Connaught Rangers. Died of wounds on the Western Front. From Waterford City. 7834 Pte John Horey, 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards. Born Tallow, Co. Waterford, he was killed in action on the Western Front. 19158814 Sgt James Donellan, 9th Bn Lancashire Fusiliers. He was killed in action on the Western Front and buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. 1916Two Waterford City men who died on this day 7571 Pte George Kennedy, 1st Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died of wounds in Salonica. 28313 Sapper Maurice Murphy, Royal Engineers. Killed in action on the Western Front. 1917240646 Pte Patrick Manning, 1/5th Bn The Welsh Regt. Killed in action, Egypt. He was from Waterford. 19189948 Pte John Ryan from Carrick on Suir, Co. Tipperary. He died on the Western Front serving in 8th Bn, Royal Irish Regt. 192071234 Constable William Maxwell, RIC. Killed in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary. He was born in Ballynahinch, Co. Down in 1896. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 4, 2011 23:28:21 GMT
4th November in Irish Military History 1650 William of Orange was born. He became King of Britain and Ireland in 1688. 1677 William of Orange and Mary Stuart were married in England on William's birthday. William and Mary were cousins and he would depose his father in law as English king exactly 11 years later. 19163432 Gunner William Croke, KIA on the Western Front with Royal Garrison Artillery. From Waterford. 191741953 Gunner James Fenton, KIA on the Western Front with Royal Garrison Artillery. From Lismore, Co. Waterford. 1918A British and French offensive began on a 30 mile front from Valenciennes to Guise on Oise, across the Sambre-Oise Canal. Hostilities between Austria-Hungary and the allies ceased at noon. The Kiel revolution spread to Hamburg. 5595 Pte William O'Keeffe, 3rd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died of malaria at home in Affane, Co. Waterford. KIA on the Western Front with 5th Bn Royal Irish Regt. 21 Pte Garret Burns. From Tipperary Town. 370 Pte Timothy Keane. From Waterford. 1920Chaplain Oswald Fisher from Waterford. KIA in Persia. 1922Vol Michael Sadleir, IRA. Died of Wounds in Cashel, Co. Tipperary. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 4, 2011 23:32:18 GMT
5th November in Irish Military History 1688William of Orange landed at Torquay, England with 15,000 men. 1854The Battle of Inkerman was fought in the Crimea. Pte John Byrne of the 68th Foot from Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, was awarded a VC for his bravery in the Battle. 1917L/Cpl John Cooke, Canadian Expeditionary Force. From Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 1920Lt Hamilton, Northamptonshire Regt. KIA Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. Vol John O’Brien from Nenagh Co. Tipperary. Killed by the Security Forces in Nenagh. Vol Thomas O’Brien. from Nenagh Co. Tipperary. Killed by the Security Forces in Nenagh. Presumably killed in retaliation for the death of Lt Hamilton. 1940Captain Edward Fegen, commanding an armed merchantman, HMS Jervis Bay, was escorting a 37 ship convoy, when they were attacked by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. Captain Fegen immediately engaged the enemy ship, head-on, giving the ships of the convoy time to scatter. Capt Fegen, from Ballinonty, Co. Tipperary went down with his ship and earned a Victoria Cross. 31 ships of the convoy escaped. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 6, 2011 0:04:54 GMT
6th November in Irish Military History 1649Owen Roe O'Neill died. 191410183 Cpl William Nagle, 2nd Bn Connaught Rangers. From Co. Waterford KIA Ypres. Buried Railway Chateau Cemetery, Belgium. KIA on the Western Front with 1st Bn Irish Guards 4195 Pte Denis Byrnes, Cashel. 1st Bn Irish Guards. KIA Ypres. 1458 Pte Martin Culleton, son of Bridget Culleton, 14 The Glen, Waterford.1st Bn Irish Guards. KIA Ypres. 1917L/Cpl John Cooke, Canadian Expeditionary Force. From Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 191891930 Spr James Cummings, 181st Tunnelling Coy, Royal Engineers. From Clonmel, he was Killed in action on the Western Front and is buried in Cross Roads Cemetery, France. 7381 Pte Edmund Flynn from Carrickbeg, Co. Tipperary. He was serving in the Depot Royal Irish Regt in Clonmel when he died. He is buried in St Patrick's Cemetery, Clonmel. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 7, 2011 22:21:51 GMT
7th November in Irish Military History 1900 In South Africa, Irish Sgt Edward Holland, of the Canadian Dragoons, earned a VC by holding off a Boer force that was threatening to capture two 12 pounder guns. He served as a Major in the First World War. 19148675 Rifleman John Lyons, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Rifles. KIA on the Western Front. From Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. 7296 Pte William McCarthy 3rd Bn Worcestershire Regt. KIA on the Western Front. From Waterford City. 1917The British Army in Palestine broke the Turkish defensive line in the Third Battle of Gaza. 19183426 Pte Edmond Collins, 3rd Bn Royal Irish Regt. Died at home and buried in St John's Graveyard, Tipperary Town. 1922Pte Andrew Hogan, Free State Army. From Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Died of Wounds. 1971The IRA murdered Senator John Barnhill near Strabane. 1975Dr Tiede Herrema, was freed from his IRA kidnappers in Monasterevin. |
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Post by groundhog on Nov 7, 2011 22:22:44 GMT
8th November in Irish Military History 191411248 Pte Percy Manning, 1st Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. Died of wounds on the Western Front. He was from Waterford. 191845177 Pte John Merrigan, 4th Queen's Own Hussars. He was from Modeligo, Co. Waterford. And he died in France. 1922Pte Thomas Murphy, Free State Army. From Golden, Co. Tipperary. He was killed in action. 1960Eight Irish soldiers were killed in the Niemba Ambush, in the Congo while serving with 33rd Inf Bn, ONUC. They were; Lt Kevin Gleeson Sgt Hugh Gaynor Cpl Peter Kelly Cpl Liam Dougan Pte Matthew Farrell Tpr Thomas Fennell Tpr Anthony Browne Pte Matthew McGuinn 1987The IRA killed eleven people when they bombed the Cenotaph in Enniskillen during a Remembrance Day ceremony. |
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