Looking for help on an Easter Rising Casualty

[BrendanLee]

Major Percival Havelock Acheson Army Service Corps died 29^th of April 1916, appears in the Irish Time Handbook as being on the official list of casualties, I had him on my website as a 1916 casualty until someone contacted me to tell me he was shot when he failed to answer a challenge by a sentry at a road checkpoint at Grange, Fermoy, Cork, he was partially deaf. He retired in 1895 so would have been over 20 years out of the army and would have been around 55 years old when he died. The main question I have is would he still be considered a member of the Army.

[corisande]

For what it is worth. It is in an English Paper, Gloucester Journal

[corisande]

Irelands Memorial Records gives died rather than killed

LG does not seem to show him as being reactivated either

[corisande]

But Probate gives him killed on active service

Try Irish Papers online to see if you can get a report of his death.

[BrendanLee]

Thanks for the newspaper cuttings corisande. I tried the Irish Independent and the various local papers they have on their site but apart from him being mentioned on the casualty list I could find no other mention of him.

[corisande]

He has a CWCG grave, so was (almost certainly) serving at the time of his death

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2743504/ACHESON,%20PERCIVAL%20HAVELOCK

There is nothing to say whether he just happened to die that day, or was killed in action. Re-reading the probate, it does say "died" on "active service" which could imply that he was serving at the time of a natural death, rather than "killed in action"

Probably only the Death Cert would say how he died. It is odd that there is no mention of any action in which he might have been killed.

[Michael Pegum]

In case you didn't know, he is commemorated on the first panel of the Great War Memorial in St. Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork city.

Michael

[museumtom]

The sentry guarding his house in Fermoy shot him when he did not answer a challenge.