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Gerald Alfred Body
CADET GERALD ALFRED BODY - ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY (679-681) - I knew my dad was in the Royal Irish Constabulary {Black and Tans}, but did not know he was injured until last week. He was the sentry on guard on the 11th of April 1921 outside the London and North-Western Hotel at North Wall Dublin. At about 8am with the dockers going to work the IRA infiltrated the workers and then attacked the hotel shooting my dad in the leg. He managed to get inside and raise the alarm. The RIC cadets and officers were mainly asleep and armed themselves in what they had on and attacked and chased the IRA soldiers. One IRA soldier with a bomb was shot dead. Two other were injured but were simply passing bye. Cadet Body {2nd Lieutenant of the Kent Buffs} was released from hospital on the 21st May. He joined the Royal Flying Corp and then the Royal Air Force serving his country in many RAF camps home a overseas. He retired as a Squadron Leader in 1958.
Gerald Alfred Body
CADET GERALD ALFRED BODY - ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY (679-681) - I knew my dad was in the Royal Irish Constabulary {Black and Tans}, but did not know he was injured until last week. He was the sentry on guard on the 11th of April 1921 outside the London and North-Western Hotel at North Wall Dublin. At about 8am with the dockers going to work the IRA infiltrated the workers and then attacked the hotel shooting my dad in the leg. He managed to get inside and raise the alarm. The RIC cadets and officers were mainly asleep and armed themselves in what they had on and attacked and chased the IRA soldiers. One IRA soldier with a bomb was shot dead. Two other were injured but were simply passing bye. Cadet Body {2nd Lieutenant of the Kent Buffs} was released from hospital on the 21st May. He joined the Royal Flying Corp and then the Royal Air Force serving his country in many RAF camps home a overseas. He retired as a Squadron Leader in 1958.