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| File Reference |
MSP34REF3882
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| Name |
George Lee |
| Gender |
male |
| Maiden/Other names |
Seoirse Ua Laoigh
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Shannon House, Castleconnell
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| County |
Limerick
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Notes |
no date of birth noted on the file
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| Notes |
No date of death noted on the file
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| Associated files in MSPA |
34E274
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Second Lieutenant
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| Unit |
2 Battalion
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| Company |
A Company
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| Brigade |
Mid Limerick Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
R. O'Connell
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| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Private
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| Unit |
Active Service Unit (Flying Column)
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| Brigade |
Mid Limerick Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Sean O'Carroll
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| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Private
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| Unit |
Active Service Unit (Flying Column)
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| Brigade |
1 Tipperary Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Sean O'Carroll
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| Pension Claim |
Yes |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
Yes |
| Grade |
E |
| Notes |
Awarded 5 and 1/3 years service for pension purposes
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyMSP34REF3882 George Lee.pdf
Scanned/digital copy34E274 George Lee.pdf |
| File dates |
22 February 1935 - 8 October 1957
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| Subject Information |
File relates to George J. Lee's service pension application and contains material relating to his receipt of a military service pension in respect of his service covering all or part of the periods from 1 April 1920 to 30 September 1923 with the IRA. He unsuccessfully applied for earlier periods of service and was unsuccessful in getting his service extended in a subsequent appeal.
Lee states that he was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in New York City, before moving to Ireland in 1915 to join the Irish Volunteers. He states that he became a member of Castleconnell Company, Shannon Battalion, Limerick Irish Volunteers and was mobilised during Easter Week 1916, but saw no fighting. He states that he took a temporary job in Athlone as a fisherman in the autumn of 1916 in the hopes of being in a position to purchase arms, and was subsequently involved in the usual military activities of his Company back in Limerick. His unit became A Company, 2 Battalion, Mid Limerick Brigade, Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1919 and he states that he was later involved in the Dromkeen ambush, the raid on Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) personnel at Cappamore, raids for arms and the raid of a mail train near Killonan, the dismantling of the evacuated RIC Barracks at Castleconnell, and the burning of Hermitage House. He states that he joined the Mid Limerick Brigade Active Service Unit (Flying Column) in February 1921 and that he took part in the blowing up of Annacotty Bridge, engagements with British forces at Sraherla and Lackelly and an ambush at Canter's Bridge. During the truce period (12 July 1921 to 30 June 1922) he states that he was mostly on police duties. During the Civil War, he states that he was a member of the Active Service Unit (Flying Column) attached to Tipperary No. 1 Brigade and was involved in the capture of O'Brien's Bridge Barracks and two outposts in Castleconnell, the blowing up of bridges, ambushes at Newport and Kilmurray, and engagements at places including Kilcommon (Tipperary), Doonan (Clare) and Castleconnell (Limerick). He was arrested in February 1923 and held in Limerick, which he escaped from 6 weeks later and was on the run with the Column until 1924.
File contains: application form and typed transcript of sworn evidence given by the subject before the Advisory Committee, Military Service Pensions Act, 1934; discussion documents with Liam Forde and Michael Hartney concerning the subject's service; handwritten personal queries and statements regarding the appeal by the subject; Copies of a typescript statement supporting the subject's appeal for longer service sent to various recipients, with accompanying handwritten letters from his brother W.F. Lee, on his behalf, and a clipping from the "Cork Examiner", Saturday 8 February 1936, containing an open letter from W.F. Lee; R15 Referee form showing the subject's rank on the two critical dates; pension administration documentation, handwritten notes and correspondence, including: a form relating to the subject's pension, suggesting that the subject was no longer presenting pension warrants for payment, or that his pension had stopped for some other reason, in the period 1956 to 1957.
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