The Easter Uprising 1916

[kevinrolfe]

hi

doing some research on my Great uncle William Clarence Dunsford, and i came across this link.

William was stationed at (Newbridge barracks) Curragh in 1916 with his regiment the 3rd Hussars,(we know this because he was married in sept 1916 and gave the barracks as his home)

The 3rd Hussars were under the command of Colonel (Temporary) Brigadier) W H M Lowe, and had been organised as the 9th Reserve Cavalry Regiment (3rd/7th Hussars, 2nd/3rd Country of London Yeomanry) out of the Curragh barracks, and were responsible for the middle of the country as well as the garrisoning of Dublin. on the 24 of April 1916 to the 30th of April the Easter Uprising took place.

Williams regiment was postioned in Dublin Castle during the battle.

can any one point me to where i could get more info? (i have his medal card and no service record exist)

[kildaremark]

The National Library of ireland has a good online exhibition on the Easter Rising:-

http://www.nli.ie/1916/1916_main.html

There is a list of killed and wounded included and there are some Hussars in this list. It might be worth comparing their service numbers to your relative's number. Killed included Cordwell, Mulraney, O'Gorman, Smith, Smith and walton.

Wounded Hussars were Hall, Jolliffe, McDonnell, Mullally, Pinner, Tait and Todbury.

Osprey Publishing's "Easter Rising 1916" one of their Campaign Series is a nice tidy account of the Rising and the opposing forces with an Order of Battle and plenty of illustrations/photos.

You might want to note that the 3rd Reserve Cavalry Brigade was commanded by Colonel Porter under the command of Lowe,(according to this book) and that Newbridge is a separate location to the Curragh albeit only a few miles away. The Brigade's headquarters would have been in the Curragh with the Hussars stationed at Newbridge.

Mark

[kevinrolfe]

Mark,

Thanks, William survived Ireland and fought in France.

[corisande]

The official information for that day was that the first objectives for the troops that day were to recover possession of the Magazine in Phoenix Park, where the rebels had set fire to a quantity of ammunition, to relieve the Castle, and to strengthen the guards on Vice-Regal Lodge and other points of importance.

The Magazine was quickly re-occupied, but the troops moving on the Castle were held up by the rebels who had occupied surrounding houses, and had barricaded the streets with carts and other material. Between 1.40 p.m. and 2.0 p.m., 50 men of 3rd Royal Irish Rifles, and 130 men of the 10th Royal Dublin Fusiliers reached the Castle by the Ship Street entrance.

At 4.45 p.m. the first train from the Curragh arrived at Kingsbridge station, and by 5.20 p.m. the whole Cavalry Column, 1,600 strong, under the command of Colonel Portal, had arrived, one train being sent on from Kingsbridge to North Wall by the loop line to reinforce the guard over the docks.

[west coast]

[attachm

ent=120381:Picture_20010.jpg] a few types of armoured cars custom made in dublin ,1916 rebellion.

mike.

[west coast]

. some of the armoured cars were made at the inchicore works dublin .

mike.

[val brown]

""RE POST 5"" three of these improvised armoured lorrys were built at the gsr railway works in inchicore dublin in the 1916 rising, two had the boiler type body (left photo sackville street) the third having a flat box shape (right photo bachelor walk) all three were daimler flatbed y type lorrys that belonged to the guinness brewery, the conversion was done at the works with the assistants of the 3rd reserve cavalry regiment, there is a youtube interview with an x citizen army soldier who give an account of an incident involving one of the guinness armoured lorrys (probably the one that was photo in bachelor walk)