5588/7110456 Pte Robert Healy

 

1898 March 22 Born Ballingarry, Tipperary Parents Phillip and Catherine Healy

1901 census at Black Common, Farranrory, Tipperary, Ireland

1911 census, he is a servant at Ballingarry

1916 April 26 Enlisted as 5588 Private Robert Healy into 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment at Fermoy. Occupation Farm Labourer

1916 May Battalion moved to Queenstown

1916 Oct 21 deserted at Queenstown from 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment

1916 Nov 28 Picked up by RIC and in Waterford gaol

1916 Nov 30 Handed over to a Military escort

1916 Dec 7 At Queenstown Convicted of being ‘Absent’ without leave and awarded 28 days detention

1917 Nov 23 Picked up by RIC and in Kilkenny gaol

1917 Nov 22 Handed over to a Military escort

1917 Dec 5 At Queenstown convicted of desertion and loss of equipment. Awarded 6 months detention with stoppages

1918 arrived in France and joined 7th (South Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment

1918 March 21 The enemy attacked and broke through A and C Company’s and reached Ronssoy village before S and B Companies were aware that the attack had commenced. No one of A and B Company’s got back to the rest of the Battalion, either being killed or taken prisoners.  He was wounded in one leg and captured

1918 April 28 Listed In the Zerbst POW Camp, IV Army Corps (Magdeburg).

1919 March 6 Re-enlisted at Clonmel as 35212 Private Robert Healy, Royal Irish Regiment age 20 years and 11 months

1919 Aug 3 married Margaret Kelly at Ballingarry, South Tipperary

1919 Sept 12 At Shorncliffe with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Charged with desertion awarded 21 days detention. Found  guilty of absence

1920 Jan 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment arrived in India, so he must have been posted to the 1st Battalion

1920 April 4 His daughter Catherine was born at Thurles

1920 April 20 At Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth with Details from the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment , the battalion was at Allenstein, Silesia.. Convicted of violence against a lance corporal found not guilty

1920 August Re-numbered 7110456 Private Robert Healy, Royal Irish Regiment

1920 Sept 9 Deserted from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment

1921 Jan 6 Accused of breaking into two properties and stealing with threats in Graiguegooley and Callan

1921 Feb 26 Charged in court at Kilkenny

1921 March 14 In Court at Killenny

1921 June 15 Shot dead by IRA while in state of desertion. Label on his body ‘Tried, sentenced and shot by IRA. Spies and informers beware.’ Newspaper reports refer to him as a Solicitor

1921 June 25 Court of Inquiry held in lieu of Inquest at the Military Hospital Tipperary

1923 Nov 23 medals returned


 

 

 

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