British soldier ‘disappeared’ by IRA found

On 14 May 2018, almost a century after he was executed and secretly buried by the IRA, the body of British soldier Private George Chalmers was recovered from a bog near Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, and reburied in Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Dublin.   By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc George Chalmers, an orphan from Edinburgh, joined ... Read more

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