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Friday 17th June 2016 |
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REMEMBER AND REFLECT (ARDS AND NORTH DOWN) |
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A - 008 Collection ID 103 |
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Artefact Relating to Thomas Carroll, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers |
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Artefact |
Unique Object ID |
1529 |
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Artefact - pottery bowl given to Thomas as a gift by his work colleagues when he was sent off to war
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"This bowl, the pottery where he worked presented the bowl to Thomas when he went off to war. The mother kept it, it was then handed to the sister. She gave it to me 40 years ago. I was the last of the family. Unfortunately my father gave his medals to his eldest son, who died. He left them for his son, and I didn’t get them. I was the youngest son.
He was wounded twice and came home from the war. He never talked much. The first time he was wounded he was sent back to London, to hospital. He insisted to get back to the front with his mates. He got wounded again. He finished the war and came home to Belfast. He and my mother had ten of us. He was a very healthy man, lived to 82. He took up gardening, he loved the birds and being outside. Retired at 65 and enjoyed his life.
He was taking communications up to the front up to the railway line, that was his job. He got wounded up there. Six boys from Dungannon went off, all of them wanted to see the world. He was with them, when he went off on a job to lay the communication line. He got back to the trench and his mates were all blown up. 5 of them dead. He never got over it."
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