Photograph
A contemporary Photograph taken at the site of the Adavoyle Train Wreck June 24th 1921.
In his Speech upon the Opening the Parliament of Northern Ireland, King George V called for Peace and Reconciliation across Ireland. Two days later, however, the IRA targeted military personnel returning from the Ceremony in Belfast.
On the morning of 24 June, a bomb squad attacked a Military train at Adavoyle, close to the Irish Border.
It is believed the derailment was caused by the removal or diversion of a length of rail at a point where there is a steep fall, and many of the carriages were thrown across an embankment.
The train was carrying a detachment of the 10th Royal Hussar officers and their horses, who were due to board a ferry from Dublin to Holyhead. Four soldiers and over eighty horses were killed in the attack, and a train guard and afarmer were shot dead in the ensuing crossfire.
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