he volunteered for service in the British Army and was commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers. At the end of the war, he was sent to Tromse, in the Arctic Circle, to oversee the repatriation of ...

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The highest mortality rate was in Kildare, probably due to the great concentration of soldiers in both the Curragh, and Naas, where the Royal Dublin Fusiliers were based. In early-February 1919, a ...