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File Reference MSP34REF59760
Name Anne Malone
Gender female
Maiden/Other names Anne Cleary
Address detail
Street Bunmore, Ballycroy
County Mayo
Country Ireland
Address detail
Street High Street, Westport
County Mayo
Country Ireland
Date of birth 1908-04-24
Notes Date of death not recorded on file
Associated files in MSPA 34SP60684
Related files MSP34REF59730 (Mary Cleary, sister)
Easter rising service No
Organisation Cumann na mBan
Rank Member
Unit 2 Battalion
Company H Company (Ballycroy)
Brigade West Mayo Brigade
Commanding Officer(s) Peg Malone
Pension Claim Yes
Award Pension No
Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 No
Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 No
Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 No
Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 No
Digital file Scanned/digital copyMSP34REF59760 Anne Malone.pdf
Scanned/digital copy34SP60684 Anne Malone.pdf
File dates 07 February 1941 - 29 January 1976
Subject Information File relates to Anne Malone’s unsuccessful application for a military service pension under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934. Applicant claimed membership of Cumann na mBan in the service periods between 01 April 1919 and 30 September 1923 during the War of Independence, Truce period and Civil War. Subject was awarded a Service (1917-1921) Medal in 1947, information held on file. Anne Malone (née Cleary) states that she was a member of H Company (Ballycroy), 2 Battalion, West Mayo Brigade, Cumann na mBan under the command of Peg Malone. During the War of Independence (January 1919 – July 1921), she claims that she took part in dispatch work and tended to wounded IRA men following ambushes of British forces at Skirdagh and Kilmeena in her home which was “turned into a temporary hospital as it was situated in a lonesome mountain district”. During the Truce period, Mary Cleary claims that she attended first-aid classes in a training camp in Shean, Ballycroy, County Mayo under the command of Liam J Malone. Taking the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War, the subject states under the command of Anthony Farrell she did typing work for dispatches on a typewriter in her home. Reference states that her home was Brigade headquarters during the period. Further states that she tended to IRA members in her home following ambushes of National forces in Glenamoy and other places. By the second critical date (July 1922), the branch had been re-organised into 3 Battalion, 5 Brigade (North West Mayo). In her application in 1941 she wrote that that her “reason for not applying for pension before … was as I was member of Sinn Féin up till recently”. File includes reference in support of the subject’s claim from William Chambers (1941; 1946) Michael [Forry] (1942); Sean Lynchehan (1942); James Grehan (1942); Brian Corrigan (1942); Michael Kilcoyne (1942); Anthony McNamara (1942); James Kilroy (1942); Thomas Cleary (1946); Patrick Fallon (1975) and JJ Connolly (1975). Subject did not appear before the Advisory Committee.