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| Keywords: family evacuation spike island spikeisland british garrison britishgarrison british army britisharmy irish army irisharmy ports cobh cork ireland july 1938 1930s independent newspapers collection independentnewspaperscollection baths quay bathsquay lance-corporal lewis thomas lancecorporallewisthomas lewis thomas lewisthomas lewis james thomas lewisjamesthomas olive thomas olivethomas richard thomas richardthomas people identified peopleidentified sunday 10th thirties 20th century 20thcentury national library of ireland nationallibraryofireland blackandwhite monochrome black and white This is British Army Lance-Corporal Lewis James Thomas and his family leaving Cobh. The family presumably returned to England. lukusnan told us: "This is a picture of my Grandfather Lewis James Thomas with my gran, auntie Olive and uncle Richard, my mother is not in the photo as she was camera shy. My grandfather died in Japanese prisoner war camp just before the end of the war." On Monday, 11 July 1938, the Irish army took over from the last of the British Garrison at Spike Island in Cork Harbour. As the Irish Independent reported, it had been 17 years since the Truce of 1921 when the British flag was lowered on Spike Island, and Irish sentries mounted duty for the first time. Date: Sunday, 10 July 1938 NLI Ref.: IND_H_3281 This is British Army Lance-Corporal Lewis James Thomas and his family leaving Cobh. The family presumably returned to England. lukusnan told us: "This is a picture of my Grandfather Lewis James Thomas with my gran, auntie Olive and uncle Richard, my mother is not in the photo as she was camera shy. My grandfather died in Japanese prisoner war camp just before the end of the war." On Monday, 11 July 1938, the Irish army took over from the last of the British Garrison at Spike Island in Cork Harbour. As the Irish Independent reported, it had been 17 years since the Truce of 1921 when the British flag was lowered on Spike Island, and Irish sentries mounted duty for the first time. Date: Sunday, 10 July 1938 NLI Ref.: IND_H_3281 | ||||
