Believed to have been abducted by IRA whilst serving a summons in West Clare and executed 11 June 1921. A Scot serving with the 2nd Royal Scots who was courting a local woman when he went missing. The British authorities assumed he went A.W.O.L. but he was captured by three I.R.A. gunmen. He was executed and his body was secretly buried in the Moy area Co.Clare.
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