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Post by romanv on Jul 20, 2012 13:07:39 GMT
Hi folks, Again, I am seeking advice and hope someone can help. I have recently recieved some military records for family members and on my granfathers record I came across something of interest. Please note that this granfather is not the one that some on this site have been helping me with but he is on the other side of the family!!! He was with the LDF during the emergency and was called up to the PDF for a few years during this period. He served in the Calvary and briefly with the 3rd batt. Anyway, on one particular night while on duty as a sentry at the internment camp he was found sleeping in the early hours. He was charged during a court martial and sentenced to nearly 6 months detention. After this incident, he appears to have continued in the military until the 50's where he was deemed unfit for service because of a health problem. As nobody in the family was aware of this I wanted to seek further info. I have contacted military archives but have not recieved a reply as of yet. Is this something that information would be available on or am I'm wasting my time chasing this? I was thinking that records would show visitors log, location, routine etc. Does anyone have knowledge of experiance with anything related to this? ??
Thanks
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Post by Jim Grant on Nov 3, 2013 20:32:32 GMT
Hi Matt
My family come from Kilmacow in Co Kilkenny Tom Richard and my dad Patrick were in the army and I heard they were at the Curragh Camp . Do you have any records there of people joining the army as I have been intouch with the military records in Dublin and they cannot find anything. I was told that at some point they were employed in work in Tramore near Waterford whilst in the army. I believe the period i'm looking at is 1942 to 1948 my dad was born in 1924. I have a picture of him and Richard in uniform but nothing else. any assistance appreciated as i live in Norfolk UK
thanks again
Jim Grant
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Post by joemurray on Nov 7, 2013 22:04:25 GMT
Looking through Tommy Sweeny's lists of people who lived in the married quarters from the 1920s and right up to the late 20 century (a true labour of love).I know my grandparents lived in 25 O'Higgins Road from 1929 till 1940.In that year they like nearly every other family on the Curragh had to leave their homes on the Camp.I wonder were they just left to sort out a new home for themselves.Did they get any help from the military,and please this has got nothing to do with the present "overholders"debate.There would have been hundreds of families looking for a place to live around the Curragh area.I know my grandparents eventually got a house in Kilcullen.My mother got married and came back to Ceannt in 1946.Did they close the schools on the Camp during 1940-46?Where would the pupils be schooled?
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Post by andybrennan on Nov 8, 2013 8:01:21 GMT
Joe,
Interesting questions indeed.
Andy
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Post by pamchetland on Jul 13, 2015 15:37:36 GMT
Coc kburn Family
Malcolm Charles was the son of Alexander who joined the Royal Engineers on the 25 July 1890 at Stirling in Scotland and who was discharged from the 33rd Company of Royal Engineers as Sergeant Alexander 24997 on 24th July 1911 at Fort Camden Co Cork.Alexander father William was also in the Royal Engineers joining at Fort George Inverness 13 Feb 1879 and arriving at Brompton Barracks Chatham 13 March 1879 he served 21 yrs and 25 days being dicharged in 1900 as Corporal William on the 1901 census of Ireland he was living at Kilbelin Newbridge Co Kildare and was an engine driver also he was an Army pensioner
As I mentioned above my grandfather Alexander was was discharged at Fort Camden Cork, he and his family then moved initially to live with his mother at Canning Pl Newbridge, then moved to Henry St Newbridge, I know that my mother b 1910 in Cork and I assume her brothers and sisters went to the school in the Curragh camp, she told me that she was taught by nuns
Malcolm Charles b 1897 in Bermuda and his brother Stuart William b 1894 in Bermuda joined the Royal Engineers at the start of WW1 in 1914 at the Curragh Camp Co Kildare Malcolm, was in the 90th Field Company Royal Engineers and was killed on 4th Apr 1916 in France and Flanders
Stuart William Acting Lance Corporal 2306248 in The Royal Corps of Signallers lived through the war to be discharged as insane on 4 March 1921in Chatham because he was still in the army in 1921 he may have signed for longer service than just the length of the war in fact I have just found that he was not on the 1911 census of Ireland with the rest of his family so he may have joined in Fort Camden before the war.I have never been able to find where Stuart was sent when he was discharged in 1921, I only know what my mother told me which was he was so badly shellshocked that he was in an institution for the rest of his life, I have never been able to find when or where he died
My grandfather Alexander had a laundry business in Newbridge and I believe that he had the contract from the Currahg Camp for Laundry services
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Post by saoirse behan on Sept 2, 2015 15:09:27 GMT
I really hope I'm on the right thread for this! I'm an intern here in the military museum and I'm currently taking on the tasks of helping people find out information regarding their families. It's not a difficult task but it's not particularly easy either, especially when a lot of sites require you to pay a small fortune to get access to records. If anyone was able to help me with information they have I would greatly appreciate, as I'm sure their families would too.
1 - Any information regarding a Lt Col Eric Gregan who resided in Pearse Park 1950-1953 & Ceannt House 1969-1975. 2 - (the one I'm having most difficulty with!) A John Henry Pellow. Originally from Cornwall, born 1891. Attended a training camp here in the Curragh between 1906-1910. Learned bakery and apparently boxed in the army also? He left to join Police Forces in Cornwall and fought in World War 1 with British Expeditionary Forces. Any information regarding the camp at all around that time would be greatly appreciated! 3 - And finally, a John/Sean Hanley from Galway who was interned in the Rath camp, 1921.
I found some info possibly regarding Mr. Gregan on the accommodation records where he had IOSTA CORI and COLLEGE in brackets besides his name - why are they there?
Thanks a million, Saoirse.
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Post by andybrennan on Sept 2, 2015 17:41:34 GMT
Saoirse,
Lt Col Eric Gregan was Officer Commanding Iosta Cori/ Depot Signal Corps in Ceannt Barracks
I think he may have lived in Athlone not absolutely sure of this.
Andy
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Post by Patricia on Nov 30, 2015 20:02:27 GMT
Bonjour! It is Patricia again. Can anyone shine light of the procedure that enabled 'demobilized' British soldiers to transfer 'join' the newly formed Irish Free State Army. What I need to understand. Is the actual mechanics of the procedure. Did service time in the British army count when they joined their new units. Or, did they keep their rank or start back from scratch. Anything at all would be more than I can find on the 'web'.
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Post by sean@mcdermott on Mar 22, 2017 19:26:47 GMT
hi i just joined the site as my father patrick sherry and grandfather martin ambrose were based on the curragh both are deceased now and iv a lot of old pictures of both of them my dad was in supply and transport and i think my grandfather was in the 33rd battalion
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Post by kelly on Mar 23, 2017 11:06:35 GMT
Hi Sean, I was trained up by your grandfather in Mc Donagh Bks in 1953 and passed out feb 1954 I remember Sgt Martin Ambrose very well! he was a fine man and a great soldier, who had a big say in me staying in the army, for which I was very grateful, even to this day, I would like to see any photos you have have as I am sure they would bring some memories back to me, there is a photo somewhere on the forum of 12 platoon passing out 1954 with some of the soldiers named, it would be great if a few more could be named. I now live in the U/K, and I would send you my email address and maby you would be kind enough to send one or two photos to me via email or my home address, which I will let you have if you want it, May your Dad and Grandad RIP. Ex Tpr Kelly , Ex 1St Armd Sqdn , 53/54/55
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Post by sean@mcdermott on Mar 27, 2017 16:42:41 GMT
Hi Tpr Kelly, I'm not the son of the late Martin Ambrose as Martin only had a daughter named Philomena, his only child but I knew the family well and spent many evenings making lanyards at their house at 9b block mcDonagh.devastated when I heard recently that they are all deceased now and have been for a number of years,may God bless all three of them.
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Post by kelly on Mar 29, 2017 14:36:10 GMT
Hi Sean. Thanks for that info, sorry I read your post wrong, ( Specsavers here I come) as I have said in earlier post may they R,I,P. Ex Tpr Kelly, Ex 1st Armd Sqdn, 53/54/55
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Post by andybrennan on Mar 29, 2017 18:27:35 GMT
Hi Kelly, just thought I would say hello.
Andy
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Post by kelly on Mar 30, 2017 10:03:40 GMT
Hi Andy, Thanks for that! nice to be thought of! hope you are keeping well and enjoying this lovely weather at the moment, I don't suppose it will keep like this for long, Just got the shout for a cup of coffee which we will drink in the garden, I always enjoy reading your post's keep them coming. All the very best to you. Ex Tpr Kelly, Ex 1st Armd Sqdn, 53/54/55.
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Post by andybrennan on Mar 30, 2017 17:58:43 GMT
Always interested in your posts Kelly, you were spot on with the deduction about my daddy in that photograph, gave me something to zoom in on. I would have and did miss him until you pointed me in the right direction, thank you very much for that.
Also your memory of your postings are accurate. hope the coffee hit the spot. Keep posting. Andy
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