Newspaper clipping referring to the death of Joseph Bayle

• January 5, 2018 18:52:08 Thomas A. Lingner

  DUBLIN VOLUNTEER
  KILLED.

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    The death in action of Sergeant Joseph Bayle,

  sometime drill instructor of the Loyal Dublin

  Volunteers, is announced in the following extract

  from a letter written by Corporal Alen Browne,

  of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, on Sunday of 

  lst week : -

    "The weather is characteristic of the season.

  To-day cold with sunshine and a clear sky; to-

  morrow snow, sleet or rain. One cannot expect

  to engage in war without the inevitable losses

  which follow in its accursed train of miseries;

  but it is when one loses a friend or a comrade

  the real horror comes home to one. You may

  recollect my speaking once or twice of my platoon

  sergeant, Joe Bayle - he has been killed. I

  cannot realise it yet. He was a fine young 

  fellow, and I knew him in the Volunteers, where

  he, too, was a non-commissioned officer. He was

  posting sentries in a thicket, when the same shell

  mortally wounded him and slightly wounded two

  others. He was a brave man, and died game to

  the last."

    We might mention that the late Sergeant Bayle

  was a nephew to Mr. Joseph Tutty, carpenter at

  Narrow water Castle, Warrenpoint.

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  Fire Brigade for Rathfriland

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  In our report of the above on Saturday, the

  name of Mr. John McBirney, M.R.C.V.S., was

  inadvertently omitted from the names of the

  gentlemen on the committee.

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  Cleanliness. "Concord" Bottlings.

  
  

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