The UVF H.Q. Staff (part 4)
Captain James Craig was Z11 and Political Staff Officer. Born in 1871 the son of a Whiskey Distiller and educated at Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh. Enlisted …….
Captain James Craig was Z11 and Political Staff Officer. Born in 1871 the son of a Whiskey Distiller and educated at Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh. Enlisted …….
Acting Quarter Master General Z4 was Captain Wilfred Bliss Spender. Born at Plymouth in 1876, his military career saw him at one stage the youngest staff …….
At the pinnacle of the Ulster Volunteers leadership was Sir Edward Carson. Born in Dublin 1854, Edward Carson became a barrister at the tender age of …….
A feature of the Irish Unionist Movement of the early 20th Century was its organisational efficiency. The anti Home Rule Movement that evolved into the Ulster …….
Samuel Mayes was born in 1877 at Magheragall near Lisburn, the third of four children of John and Isabella Mayes, and after studying at Trinity College …….
Nestled in South County Offaly (or Kings County as it was named in 1556 after the then King Phillip- indeed Kings County is still its legal …….
When the Ulster Volunteer Force was organising and drilling throughout 1914, across the Irish Sea its friends in the British League for the Support of Ulster …….
Long before the Ulster Covenant, Unionism across Ireland was beginning to contemplate that to prevent the imposition of Home Rule, methods outside the realm of politics …….
By July 1914 tension in County Monaghan was very high. Over two years of organisation by Unionists had established 2000 Volunteers in the County Regiment …….
In 1886 the muster roll of an Orange anti- Home Rule Army was released to newspapers across the British Isles and Empire. The exercise was largely …….
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