The Brown Tree » William Joseph Harold DARLING (1871-1925)

Personal data William Joseph Harold DARLING 

• He was born on January 3, 1871 in Brighton, Sussex, England.Sources 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14

  21 Tidy Street

• He was christened on September 22, 1872 in Brighton, Sussex, England.
• He was baptized on September 22, 1872 in Brighton, Sussex, England.Sources 1, 3
• Occupations:
• c.1920 Owned a Sports and Hairdressers shop on the Curragh in Curragh Camp Kildare, Ireland.
• on 1900-1925 Hairdresser in Kildare, Kildare, Ireland.
• Resident:
• in the year 1881: Brighton, Sussex, England.Source 13
• in the year 1871: Brighton, Sussex, England.Source 6
• on March 31, 1901: Ballysax East, Kildare, Ireland.Source 12
• on April 2, 1911: Kildare, Kildare, Ireland.Source 8
• England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland.Source 15
• in the year 1891: Hussars, York Barracks, Heworth, Fulford, Yorkshire, England.Source 7
• (War) on May 21, 1921 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland: On 25 May 1921 the IRA burned Dublin Customs House.
• (War) on January 21, 1919: On 21 January 1919 they convened the First Dáil and declared the independence of the Irish Republic, and later that same day the Irish War of Independence began with the Soloheadbeg ambush..
• (Chalet Fire) on 1940s in Curragh Camp, Kildare, Ireland: His wife Kathleen had to be rescued.
• (Birth of May) on September 8, 1894 in Barrack Street, Dublin.
• (Croke Park Massacre) on November 21, 1920 in Russell Street Dublin: On Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, fourteen British intelligence operatives were assassinated in Dublin in the morning, and the RIC opened fire on a crowd at a football match in the afternoon, killing fourteen civilians and wounding 65. A week later,.
• (Independence) December 1918 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland: December 1918, republicans (by then represented by the Sinn Féin party) won 73 Irish seats out of 105 in the 1918 General Election to the British Parliament, on a policy of abstentionism and Irish independence. On 21 January 1919 they convened the First D.
• (The Easter Rebellion) Monday, 24-04-1916 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland: The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish a Republic. It lasted 6 days..
• He died on March 6, 1925 in Curragh Military Camp, Co. Kildare, Ireland, he was 54 years old.Source 14
• A child of Joseph DARLING and Charlotte BUTTON

Household of William Joseph Harold DARLING

He is married to Kathleen PUZZAU.

They got married on February 6, 1894 at Waterford, Kilkenny,Ireland, he was 23 years old.Source 9

Child(ren):

1. Four DARLING  
2. May Charlotte DARLING  1894-1982 
3. Violet Grace DARLING  1896-1969 
4. Frederick DARLING  1898-1901
5. William Charles DARLING  1900-1950 
6. Frederick Patrick DARLING  1901-1947 
7. Henry Owen DARLING  1903-1976 
8. Kathleen (Dotie) Lillian DARLING  1904-1939 
9. Hazel Pauline DARLING  1908-1920
10. Ernest Valentine DARLING  1910-1911

Notes about William Joseph Harold DARLING

With the outbreak of the Second Boer War, the regiment sailed for South Africa in 1899. After fighting at Colesberg, the regiment participated in the relief of Kimberley in February 1900, the Battle of Paardeberg immediately afterwards, and then two years of fighting in the Transvaal.

The regiment also saw action on the North-West Frontier in 1908.

First World WarEdit

Further information: British cavalry during the First World War
In 1914, the regiment was recalled to England and quickly despatched to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force, in 3rd Cavalry Division. Whilst it did not see a great deal of action as cavalry, it provided one company of men for an infantry battalion, which served in the front lines.

Inter-war periodEdit

After brief service in Ireland after the war, the regiment returned to the UK in 1921 and was retitled the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own). Deploying to Egypt in 1929 and India in 1930, the regiment returned to the UK in 1936 and began the process of mechanisation. Originally assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division, it was moved to the Mobile Division and then to the 2nd Armoured Brigade of the 1st Armoured Division in 1939. At the same time, it became part of the Royal Armoured Corps.

The Easter Rising(Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca),[1]also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrectionin Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicansto end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republicwhile the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in World War I. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798.[2]

January 1919 the Irish Volunteers renamed themselves the IRA the IRA began a guerrilla war when they shot two RIC men. The guerrilla war continued through 1920 and 1921. The British recruited a force of ex-soldiers called the Black and Tans to support the RIC. The Black and Tans were sent to Ireland in March 1920. They undertook reprisals against the IRA by burning buildings. In Dublin on 21 November 1921 they fired upon a crowd watching a football match killing 12 people. Shortly afterwards the Black and Tans burned part of Cork city center.
The war continued into 1921. On 25 May 1921 the IRA burned Dublin Customs House However 5 of them were killed and 80 were captured. Shortly afterwards, in July 1921, the war ended.

The Irish War of Independence(Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse)[4] or Anglo-Irish Warwas a guerrilla war fought from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (the army of the Irish Republic) and the British security forces in Ireland. It was an escalation of the Irish revolutionary period into armed conflict.
In the December 1918 election, the Irish republican party Sinn Féin won a landslide victory in Ireland. On 21 January 1919 they formed a breakaway government (Dáil Éireann) and declared independence from Great Britain. Later that day, two members of the armed police force, the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), were shot dead in County Tipperary by IRA members acting on their own initiative. This is often seen as the beginning of the conflict. For much of 1919, IRA activity primarily involved capturing weapons and freeing republican prisoners. In September that year the British government outlawed the Dáil and Sinn Féin, and the conflict intensified thereafter. The IRA began ambushing RIC and British Army patrols, attacking their barracks and forcing isolated barracks to be abandoned. The British government bolstered the RIC with recruits from Britain—the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries—who became notorious for ill-discipline and reprisal attacks on civilians.[5] The conflict as a result is often referred to as the Black and Tan Waror simply the Tan War.
While around 300 people had been killed in the conflict up to late 1920, there was a major escalation of violence in November that year. On Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, fourteen British intelligence operatives were assassinated in Dublin in the morning, and the RIC opened fire on a crowd at a football match in the afternoon, killing fourteen civilians and wounding 65. A week later, seventeen Auxiliaries were killed by the IRA in an ambush at Kilmichael in County Cork. The British government declared martial law in much of southern Ireland. The centre of Cork City was burnt out by British forces in December 1920. Violence continued to escalate over the next seven months, when 1,000 people were killed and 4,500 republicans were interned. The fighting was heavily concentrated in Munster (particularly County Cork), Dublin and Belfast. These three locations saw over 75% of the conflict's fatalities.[6] Violence in Ulster, especially Belfast, was notable for its sectarian character and its high number of Catholic civilian victims.[7]
Both sides agreed to a ceasefire (or "truce") on 11 July 1921. In May, Ireland had been partitioned by an Act of the British Parliament, which created the six-county Northern Ireland polity, despite the fact that County Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry City and border regions had voted by a majority for nationalist candidates in the 1918 General Election. The post-ceasefire talks led to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921. This treaty ended British rule in 26 counties of Ireland and, after a ten-month transitional period overseen by a provisional government, the Irish Free State was created as a self-governing state with Dominionstatus on 6 December 1922. However, 6 north eastern counties remained within the United Kingdom. After the ceasefire, political and sectarian violence between republicans (usually Catholics) and loyalists (usually Protestants) continued in Northern Ireland for many months. In June 1922, disagreement among republicans over the Anglo-Irish Treaty led to an eleven-month civil war. The Irish Free State awarded 62,868 medals for service during the War of Independence, of which 15,224 were issued to fighting men of the flying columns.[8]

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