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Dowling Military: Corporal Joseph Dowling 1918

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Corporal Joseph Patrick Dowling
Connaght Rangers

Born: 1886

Married: 23 Oct 1926 to Henrietta Hovenden

Died: 1 Aug 1932

Source:
Text on right: Page 87f of Ireland's Civil War by Calton Younger, Fontana Press 1968. (ISBN 0-00-686098-2).

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"On April 16th, 1918, a U Boat was sighted in Dublin Bay and during the same night Robert and James Cotter, one of whom was de Valera's brother-in-law, were intercepted in a small sailing boat. It could not be proved that they were in communication with the submarine and they were convicted only of convening Admiralty Regulations. On the west coast "one of Casement's men", a Connaught Ranger named Dowling, landed from a German submarine and was arrested.

Joseph Patrick Dowling coming ashore from a German U Boat

Joseph Patrick Dowling coming ashore from a German 'U' Boat

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The Government were satisfied "that a design existed on the part of Germany, in combination with the Sinn Fein extremists and Irish revolutionaries in America, to land arms in Ireland and bring about another Irish Insurrection and thus divert British troops from the front in France." German aims were to follow up the anticipated success of their great offensive by further embarrassing the British in Ireland. British Intelligence agents, who had earlier warned the authorities to expect Dowling, now reported that on April 26th, at Cuxhaven, rifles and machine-guns had been transferred from closed railway cars to large submarines. "These consignments did not arrive in Ireland," Ministers were informed."