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An Irish Graveyard IN THIS ISSUE: DISPATCHES THROUGH THE LENS EYEWITNESS ReveilleSUMMER 2015 €7.50/£6.25 Telling Ireland’s Military Story IRISH A RADIO VETERANS OPERATOR’S NAME NEW WAR Interview with John (Jack) CHAPTER O‘Sullivan, Radio Officer, AFTER US Merchant Navy WAR HERO EDUCATED FOR WAR OPERATION The Story of Fingal’s LIBERATE Hely-Hutchinson LISTOWEL Brothers JAMES STEPHENS MILITARY BARRACKS 2009788012-08.epsMUSEUM NBW=80 B=20 GALLIPOLIAN IRISH GRAVEYARD Veterans | Heritage | Living History IN THIS ISSUE Editor’s Note Publisher: Reveille Publications Ltd. primary school student from Celbridge PO Box 1078 Maynooth recently educated me on Belgium refugees Co. Kildare who came to my home town during World War I. As a student of history I was somewhat ISSN Print- ISSN 2009-7883 Aembarrassed about having no prior knowledge of this Digital- ISSN 2009-7891 piece of local history. The joy of history is learning more. Editor The Belgian Refugees Committee was established in October 1914 as part of the Wesley Bourke British response to the flow of civilian refugees coming from Belgium. From October [email protected] 1914 Ireland took in Belgian refugees, primarily from Antwerp. The initial effort was Photographic Editor coordinated by an entirely voluntary committee before being taken over by the Local Billy Galligan [email protected] Government Board. An article on the UCD History Hub website details the reception and treatment of the refugees by the Irish committee. The chair of the committee Sub-Editor Colm Delaney was a member of the small pre-war Belgium-Irish community, a Mrs. Helen Fowle. Her connections and ability to speak Flemish was a badly needed asset in dealing Subscriptions with the refugees. [email protected] General enquires: [email protected] It seems well-to-do Belgians took up residence in the homes of Irish gentry. For the majority of refugees accommodation was initially found in workhouses. Several Graphic Designer Rob Lewis religious orders were also among the refugees. One such group was the Benedictine [email protected] monks from Maredsous. Around one hundred of them were settled in Edermine Production Manager House Co. Wexford. Rob Lewis One family which became heavily involved in relief efforts were the Leslies of Printer Castle Leslie, Glaslough, Co. Monaghan. Leonie Leslie brought fifteen Belgian GPS Colour Graphics Ltd. refugees over to Ireland and housed them in Monaghan town after her son Norman Alexander Road Belfast was killed in the battle of Armentières. They were housed in a purpose built barracks. BT6 9HP The barracks soon became known as Belgian Square. The terrace in which the Northern Ireland Belgians lived was renamed Maline Terrace, after the town Mechelen near Antwerp. Phone: +44 28 9070 2020 Many of the refugees took up work as teachers of French, bakers and in the case Advertising of the de Neves, needleworkers. In Monaghan,a local family; the McNallys, worked Trevor Hull Media [email protected] with the de Neves to establish a successful lingerie and lace factory called the Phone: +353 (045) 832 932 Belbroid. Distribution As noted on the website of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: EM News Distribution ‘Most of the 3,000 or so Belgians who came to Ireland in the years 1914-1918, eMND Ireland Ltd. Phone: +353 (1) 802 3200 returned to Belgium after the war. However, their memory still lives on, in place names in towns such as Monaghan and in the homes of Irish people everywhere’. Contributors Mal Murray Colman Shaughnessy Wesley Bourke Stephen Dunford Patrick Casey Colm McQuinn Professor Richard Grayson Tom Reddy Celbridge History Squad Interested in submitting an article or photographs? Here at Reveille we welcome submissions from our readers. For further information please Front cover contact the editor at [email protected] or visit www.reveille.ie/submissions Keith Donnelly from the Irish Great War Society portraying an Irish officer Disclaimer: All rights reserved. The opinions and views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of during the Gallipoli Campaign. Reveille Magazine or its contributors. Readers are requested to seek specialist advice before acting on information (Photo by Billy Galligan) contained in this publication, which is provided for general use and may not be appropriate for the readers particular circumstances. While every effort is taken to ensure accuracy of the information contained in this Publication the Publisher are not liable for any errors and/or omissions contained in this publication. REVEILLE MAGAZINE | 1 IN THIS ISSUE Competition Winners We are pleased to announce the winner of our Spring 2015 issue completion sponsored by the Irish Military War Museum. Thank you to all who entered. The winner is Declan Brennan from Prosperous, Co. Kildare. Declan has won a VIP Family Pass. The pass includes a guided tour of the museum by owner William O’Sullivan and a ride in a GKN Sankey FV 432 Armoured Personnel Carrier. Have a great day out. We would like to thank the following for their support in this issue. 6th Connaught Rangers Research Group Irish Naval Service Press Office Australian War Memorial Irish Veterans Association Dept. of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht National Museum of Ireland Collins Barracks Irish Air Corps Press Office Stephens Barracks Museum Kilkenny Irish Defence Forces Press Office The Gallipoli Association Irish Great War Society The Medal Society of Ireland Irish Historic Flight The Radio Officers Association 2 | REVEILLE MAGAZINE IN THIS ISSUE Contents Editor’s Note 1 Operation Liberate Listowel 40 Over the May bank holiday weekend a small town in Co. 4 Letters to the Editor Kerry was transported back in time. For Service and Valour Dispatches 43 In this issue Patrick Casey examines the medals awarded 5 Read the latest news in Ireland’s military history. by the Irish government for service in the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence. A Radio Operator’s War at Sea 9 By Colman Shaughnessy. Radio Officer John (Jack) Celbridge History Squad Discover Links O‘Sullivan, Merchant Navy, gives an eyewitness account of 44 With Belgium his time at sea during World War II dodging. After reading local newspapers from 1915 primary students discovered Belgium refugees stayed in their Shoulder Flash village. 14 In this new series Tom Reddy introduces you to the Irish Defence Forces overseas flash and insignia. Through the Lens 46 Dr. Andrew Horne served with the Medical Corps during Gallipoli: An Irish Graveyard Part 1 – Land the Gallipoli Campaign. In that time he recorded his 15 Operations – the Regular Battalions experiences with his camera. By Mal Murray. Some 4,000 Irish soldiers lost their lives at Gallipoli. This campaign was designed to bring the war to Living History Dispatches Constantinople. Trench warfare quickly materialised. 50 Read the latest from the world of living history. Take A Step Back to 1915 Belfast Nationalist At War 6th Battalion 20 Find out what an Irish soldier in the Mediterranean 52 Connaught Rangers Part 2 Expeditionary Force looked like. By Professor Richard S. Grayson. In the second part of the story of this battalion the Belfast Nationalists endure A French General, A Hero of Ireland hardships along the Western Front right to the last days 22 By Stephen Dunford. Meet Général Jean-Joseph-Amable of the war. Humbert the French hero of the Republic of Connaught. Books Educated For War: The Story of Fingal’s 57 Find out what’s new including ‘Irish Doctors of the First 25 Hely-Hutchinson Brothers World War’ by P.J. Casey, K.T. Cullen & J.P. Duignan. By Colm McQuinn. From a young age Coote Robert and Richard George ‘Dick’ were destined to become officers in On Stage the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). 61 Madame de Markievicz on Trial by Ann Matthews and more. De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk 31 This aircraft took to the air with the Irish Air Corps in 1952. Contacts Three generations later it can still be heard over Irish skies. 64 In this issue: details for Battalion and Regimental Associations. James Stephens Military Barracks Museum 35 In this issues heritage trail we travelled to Kilkenny where Calender the 3rd Infantry Battalion have preserved Kilkenny’s 66 Find a military history event near you. military history. Competition Irish Veterans Name New Chapter After US 68 Make sure you are in with a chance to win a great prize 38 War Hero from Camden Fort Meagher. Irish American US Navy SEAL Michael Murphy is honoured in Kinsale. REVEILLE MAGAZINE | 3 LETTERSDISPATCHES Dear Sir, Dear Sir Many thanks for the splendid Spring edition of Reveille. One Congratulations on a marvelous publication. It is informative, small point on the piece featuring the National Library of well written and beautifully designed. One evening after reading Ireland on page 7. The article states that Norman Leslie “Irish Anzacs Projects” in your Spring 2015 issue I was inspired to ‘......while charging a German machine gun armed only with a contact Dr. Jeff Kildea to see if I could trace a great uncle Patrick sword (it was considered ungentlemanly for officers to carry Aloysius Brennan about whom we had scant information on his guns)’. part in the Great War. He was from Knockaroe, Borris in Ossory, This statement I believe is inaccurate. Although it makes Co. Laois (then called Queens County). The next day I received a good story side arms (pistols/rifles) have been carried an email from Dr Kildea who had found him. by British infantry officers since the 1870’s and it was It was all there, his service record, his enlistment and the commonplace by the Anglo Zulu War in 1879. My own information about where he was buried. We discovered he Regiment (the Green Howards) has one of those wonderful enlisted on the 2/2/1915 in Liverpool, NSW, Australia.
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