In memory of
Philip Armstrong Holmes
1921
- Their country
- Ireland
- Killed that day
- January 29, 1921, aged 44
Their life
District Commissioner Holmes died in the Military Hospital, Cork, from the six gunshot wounds he sustained the previous day, when he and his escort of six men were ambushed by terrorists at Tureengarriffe, on the Castleisland road, two miles west of Ballydesmond, County Cork.
Constable Thomas Moyles was shot and killed in the same incident.
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