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George Chester Duggan's Bureau of Military History witness statement has the dry, witty, distant tone of an upper civil servant - he was assistant to the Under-Secretary for Ireland during the First World War and the War of Independence - but occasionally mentions the horror of those years
https://www.militaryarchives.ie/uploads/bmh/BMH_WS_1099_IO.pdf
#CivilServant #Gallipoli #Trump #Craig #LordCraigavon -
In 1803 #JohnDalton used the Laws of #Chemistry to propose the modern #AtomicTheory. It marks the birth of #QuantumTheory. (Dalton quantized mass a century before #MaxPlanck quantized energy.)
In 1914, #HenryMoseley used the X-ray emmisions of atoms to propose the quantization of #AtomicStructure.
Sadly, #Moseley was killed by a sniper a year later in the Battle of #Gallipoli in #Turkey. https://theconversation.com/how-science-lost-one-of-its-greatest-minds-in-the-trenches-of-gallipoli-45890
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CW: My g-greatfather, a 16 year old Irish soldier in WWI
But there was no holding him back.
He finally managed to join the 1st #RoyalInniskillingFusiliers and arrived in #Gallipoli on July 18th, 1915, just in time to join 'The Skins' in the disastrous #SuvlaBay landing, where the battalion took heavy losses.
Bertie survived his first campaign, though he suffered a serious injury and lost most of the use of his left hand. He had yet to experience the #WesternFront.