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| File Reference |
2D131
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| Name |
Martin O'Neill |
| Gender |
male |
| Address detail |
| Street |
Margarette Lodge, Dundrum
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| County |
Dublin
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Notes |
No date of birth on file
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| Date of death |
1922-04-09
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| Place |
3 Battalion Head Quarters, Great Brunswick Street, Dublin City
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| Associated files in MSPA |
D85
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| Civilian occupation |
Labourer;
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Unknown
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| Brigade |
Dublin Brigade
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| Organisation |
Óglaigh na hÉireann/National Forces |
| Rank |
Sergeant Major
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| Unit |
Quartermaster General's Department
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| Company |
Burkes Stores (Supplies Branch)
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Commandant C. Carberry
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| Pension Claim |
No |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
Yes |
| Type of Award |
DADependant's allowance
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyW2D131MartinONeill.pdf
Scanned/digital copyWD85MartinONeill.pdf |
| File dates |
29 August 1923 - 31 January 1946
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| Subject Information |
File relates to a claim made by Mary O'Neill for dependents' allowance, made in respect of her son, National Army Sergeant Major Martin O'Neill, under the Army Pensions Act 1923.
Sergeant Martin O'Neill died as a result of a gunshot wound to the head caused by the accidental discharge of an automatic pistol in the early hours of the 9 April 1922 at 3 Battalion Head Quarters, Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.
File includes: handwritten application form for dependents' allowance dated 15 December 1923, completed by Mary O'Neill; typed letter, dated 11 January 1924 and signed by Commandant Domhnaill Mac Colgain, to E. V. Powell, Secretary, Pensions Committee, Ministry of Defence, in which he states that he and Martin O'Neill were members of the same company in the I.R.A, that twelve months prior to Sergeant O'Neill's death he had been wounded badly in a battle with the Black and Tans at Great Brunswick Street, Dublin and the circumstances in which the family of Sergeant O'Neill were living; typed letter, dated 16 February 1924, signed by Commandant Carbury, to the Adjutant General, which states that at the time of his death Sergeant O' Neill may not have signed an attestation form and which outlines the circumstances surrounding his death and a handwritten Garda Síochána report dated 25 March 1924 relating to Mary O'Neill's level of dependence on her son and the conditions in which Sergeant O'Neill's family were living.
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