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• This old film has a special poignancy for this viewer. One of the victims was my father's first
  cousin. They were extraordinary, terrible days when no man knew if death was around the corner.

  Mark Newberry 6th Sep 2012

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• I agree, a sad event for families, however the officers were engaged in suppressing of Irish freedom.
  I blame Lloyd George & Churchill for that policy.
  

  keven1 12th May 2013

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• Mrs Woodcock, wife of Lt Col Woodcock , who herself witnessed the shootings, writes
  
  "It was not until I went back to the military hospital on the afternoon of 21st November that I realised that our house had not been the only one visited by the murderers. The matron there told me that the dead bodies of fourteen British officers lay in the hospital mortuary. Nine of these were in pyjamas. That little sentence shows in what circumstances the majority of them lost their lives. Two officers who had dined at our house on the Saturday night were among the killed. These officers were Roman Catholics, and, I was told, had taken up special service work from a sense of duty. Tale after tale of horror was unfolded to me until my brain reeled,and I felt I could bear no more.
  
  One officer had been butchered in front of his wife. They took some time to kill him.(This refers to Newberry ) Shortly afterwards she had a little baby. It was born dead, and a few days after she also died. ..."

  seaplanedreams 21st May 2013

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• The men murdered were:
  
  Ames on "special duty" and an intelligence agent
  Angliss an intelligence agent
  Baggallay courts martial officer
  Bennett an intelligence agent
  Price intelligence agent
  Dowling certainly the IRA were looking for him and appear to have had his identity. Intelligence
  MacLean on "special duties" and undoubtedly an intelligence agent
  Fitzgerald RIC sergeant probably shot only for that reason. Nobody has ever claimed to have been involved in his killing.
  Montgomery probably a staff officer who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  Newberry probably shot as courts martial officer.
  McCormack almost certainly a civilian buying horses for Alexandria Turf Club
  Smith Civilian landlord, certainly not an intelligence agent
  Wilde almost certainly a civilian oddball with nationalist leanings
  Garniss Auxiliary shot as collateral damage
  Morris Auxiliary shot as collateral damage

  seaplanedreams 21st May 2013

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• Within the context of British Army deaths in Ireland, 261 British Army dead between Jan 1919 and July 1920, the casualties of 21 Nov were not that great (9 of the 15 deaths were actual British Army serving officers). The hit that British Intelligence operations took was probably not that great, only 6 of the men shot that day were Intelligence officers, out of around 60 believed to have been in the field at that time.
  
  Captain Newberry was not an intelligence officer. He was a courts martial officer.

  seaplanedreams 21st May 2013

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