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| File Reference |
DP4768
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| Name |
Joseph Johnston |
| Gender |
male |
| Address detail |
| Street |
Station Road, Kildare
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| County |
Kildare
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Date of birth |
1901
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| Notes |
Date of birth not recorded on file but age at time of death stated to be 18 years by Army Pensions Board investigator
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| Date of death |
1922-12-19
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| Place |
Military Prison, The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland
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| Associated files in MSPA |
2RB66; 52APB32; Y5
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| Related files |
RO517 - nominal roll of F Company, 6 Battalion, 7 (Kildare) Brigade, 1 Eastern Division lists "John Johnston, Station Road, Kildare (Executed)" as a member as of 1 July 1922
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| Civilian occupation |
Cleaner, Great Southern and Western Railway Company;
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Private
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| Unit |
Active Service Unit
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| Division |
1 Eastern Division
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| Brigade |
7 Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Thomas Harris
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| Pension Claim |
No |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
Yes |
| Type of Award |
OTHOther
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| Notes |
Partial dependents' gratuity
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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 copyDP4768 Joseph Johnston.pdf
Scanned/digital copy2RB66 Joseph Johnston.pdf
Scanned/digital copy52APB32 Joseph Johnston.pdf
Scanned/digital copyY5 Joseph Johnston.pdf |
| File dates |
18 February 1933 - 5 March 1934
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| Subject Information |
File relates to Charlotte Johnston's receipt of a partial dependents' gratuity of £112.10.00 (one hundred and twelve pounds and ten shillings sterling) in 1933 under the Army Pensions Acts in respect of her son IRA Private Joseph Johnston.
Joseph Johnston was executed by National Army forces at the Curragh Military Barracks on 19 December 1922. He had been charged and convicted, with others, by Military Court of having been in possession without proper authority of rifles, ammunition, bomb detonators and an exploder on the 12 December 1922. Date of arrest/capture, trial etc not on file. The Military Service Registration Board certified Joseph Johnston as having served with the IRA from October 1922 onwards. However his mother claimed he had been serving since 1920. See also RO517 - nominal roll of F Company, 6 Battalion, 7 (Kildare) Brigade, 1 Eastern Division lists "John Johnston, Station Road, Kildare (Executed)" as a member as of 1 July 1922
File includes: original handwritten material submitted and signed by Charlotte Johnston in support of her application; signed handwritten report from Thomas Markham dated 25 March 1933 regarding the circumstances and means of the Johnston family and the degree of dependency of Charlotte Johnston on her son at the time of his death; signed handwritten statements regarding subject's IRA service and death from Patrick Brennan and Thomas Harris TD
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