centurion Posted 12 May , 2010 Share Posted 12 May , 2010 Found this labelled as being during the Easter Rising! The tank is a Mk V and the date will be mid 1918 or later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidearm Posted 12 May , 2010 Share Posted 12 May , 2010 This illustrates the use of tanks in Ireland to force entry to buildings as I described in another thread. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 12 May , 2010 Author Share Posted 12 May , 2010 This illustrates the use of tanks in Ireland to force entry to buildings as I described in another thread. Gwyn Hence the title I gave this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 12 May , 2010 Share Posted 12 May , 2010 I'd be surprised if it was Knock, though. More like Dublin cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidearm Posted 12 May , 2010 Share Posted 12 May , 2010 Hence the title I gave this thread And I thought it was a pun on Knock too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archangel9 Posted 12 May , 2010 Share Posted 12 May , 2010 They only wanted a fresh loaf..... http://www.jmob.ie/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendanLee Posted 12 May , 2010 Share Posted 12 May , 2010 They are not knocking down the door, that's the days bread ration being passed into the tank and as we all know real men don't eat sliced pan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corisande Posted 12 May , 2010 Share Posted 12 May , 2010 They probably though that they could get more than the two loaves allowed During the week of the Easter Rising, food shortages became a major problem in the city. Bread was in short supply, especially with Boland's mill in the hands of the rebels. However, the bakery of Johnston Mooney & O'Brien was still operating, and according to The Irish Times, "persons were supplied with only two loaves each, at the ordinary price, and there was a good deal of humour in the spectacle of staid and important professional men walking home with loaves in their arms. At times there was a good deal of mischievous crushing at the bakery door, and some persons suffered from it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west coast Posted 14 May , 2010 Share Posted 14 May , 2010 flour and bread rations. mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 14 May , 2010 Share Posted 14 May , 2010 Typical. There are always a couple of loafers on the street corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy 60th Posted 14 May , 2010 Share Posted 14 May , 2010 This illustrates the use of tanks in Ireland to force entry to buildings as I described in another thread. Gwyn So thats where 'ram raiders ' got the idea from !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny_doyle Posted 16 May , 2010 Share Posted 16 May , 2010 Paul Walsh seems to write a bit on armoured cars and tanks in Ireland and indicates on another forum that the 17th (Armoured Car) Battalion, Tank Corps was stationed in Dublin (with a foray to Limerick). C Company appears to have been equipped with Mark IVs and later Mark Vs. http://www.dorsetrarebooks.co.uk/genealogy/17th-tank.htm In Fighting for Dublin by Martin Sheehan, giving the British side of activities during the War of Independence, there's a note to say that "one section of 4 male Mark V Star Tanks were available throughout 1920 and 1921...... On several occasions tanks were used in support to Infantry and armoured cars.....The majority of bridges in and about Dublin will not carry heavy tanks." In the composition of DUblin District Dec 1920 to July 1921, Sheehan records the following under Tanks : No 5 Armoured Car Company (less 2 Brigade Peerless sections) - Marlborough Barracks 1 "RR" Section - Dublin Castle 1 "P" Section, RASC - Royal Barracks but no mention of the 17th Battn. There is a nice section re "Battalion Standing Orders for Armoured Cars in Ireland" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdoyle Posted 2 May , 2012 Share Posted 2 May , 2012 possibly another viewpoint of the tank in the photo at the start of this thread http://www.gahetna.nl/collectie/afbeeldingen/fotocollectie/zoeken/weergave/detail/q/id/adf631e0-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Devitt Posted 10 May , 2012 Share Posted 10 May , 2012 153 Capel Street, Dublin circa 1920. The building is still there and is now a bistro. The building to the right (Murphy's) is gone. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipperary Posted 10 May , 2012 Share Posted 10 May , 2012 Today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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