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Auction: 323 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 734

1916 Medal, reverse officially named '346 Thomas Jones', with integral top riband bar, extremely fine

Thomas Jones served during the 1916 Easter Rising with the General Post Office Garrison. He is not recorded among the prisoners taken after the Rising, suggesting that he either escaped or gave a false name.

'On the 24th March 1923 Lieutenant Thomas Jones of the Free State Army, aged 26 and from Dublin, was killed by anti-Treaty forces in Wexford. Jones was captured with three other soldiers at McCabe's public house, The Ballagh. One soldier was wounded during the capture but the other three, including Jones, were taken prisoner. They were taken to Adamstown and shot. The bodies were found in a haggard on an outfarm owned by a man named Gorman near Barracks, Adamstown. This was the only occasion on which the Wexford branch of the Irish Republican Army shot captured Free State soldiers.' (County Wexford's Civil War, MacSuain refers). There is only one Thomas Jones on the 1916 Roll of Honour, so it is possible that they are the same man.

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