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Ivor Body

James Alfred Body and family - 55 Brunswick Place Brighton

The Body family. The boys where at Brighton College and most of the girls should have been at Roedean (but Roedean they cannot confirm this)

Photo:CADET GERALD ALFRED BODY - ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY (679-681) - I knew my dad was in the Royal Irish Constabulary {Black and Tans}, but did not know he was injured until last week. He was the sentry on guard on the 11th of April 1921 outside the London and North-Western Hotel at North Wall Dublin. At about 8am with the dockers going to work the IRA infiltrated the workers and then attacked the hotel shooting my dad in the leg. He managed to get inside and raise the alarm. The RIC cadets and officers were mainly asleep and armed themselves in what they had on and attacked and chased the IRA soldiers. One IRA soldier with a bomb was shot dead. Two other were injured but were simply passing bye. Cadet Body {2nd Lieutenant of the Kent Buffs} was released from hospital on the 21st May. He joined the Royal Flying Corp and then the Royal Air Force serving his country in many RAF camps home a overseas. He retired as a Squadron Leader in 1958.

CADET GERALD ALFRED BODY - ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY (679-681) - I knew my dad was in the Royal Irish Constabulary {Black and Tans}, but did not know he was injured until last week. He was the sentry on guard on the 11th of April 1921 outside the London and North-Western Hotel at North Wall Dublin. At about 8am with the dockers going to work the IRA infiltrated the workers and then attacked the hotel shooting my dad in the leg. He managed to get inside and raise the alarm. The RIC cadets and officers were mainly asleep and armed themselves in what they had on and attacked and chased the IRA soldiers. One IRA soldier with a bomb was shot dead. Two other were injured but were simply passing bye. Cadet Body {2nd Lieutenant of the Kent Buffs} was released from hospital on the 21st May. He joined the Royal Flying Corp and then the Royal Air Force serving his country in many RAF camps home a overseas. He retired as a Squadron Leader in 1958.

Photo:MY GRANDMOTHER MARY ALICE INDCOX - Mary Alice Indcox lived here with her Mother Father and other sisters and brothers after moving from Monmouthshire Wales to 691 Wandsworth Road Clapham before moving to Brighton.

MY GRANDMOTHER MARY ALICE INDCOX - Mary Alice Indcox lived here with her Mother Father and other sisters and brothers after moving from Monmouthshire Wales to 691 Wandsworth Road Clapham before moving to Brighton.

Photo:MARY ALICE BURNETT (NEE INDCOX) MARRIED J.A. BODY IN NEW YORK - 22 Buckingham Palace road Brighton as it is today. Mary Alice Burnett { nee Indcox later Body} lived here in 1881 census with her daughter Minnie (later Minnie Body)

MARY ALICE BURNETT (NEE INDCOX) MARRIED J.A. BODY IN NEW YORK - 22 Buckingham Palace road Brighton as it is today. Mary Alice Burnett { nee Indcox later Body} lived here in 1881 census with her daughter Minnie (later Minnie Body)

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HI Ivor, I am an Irish Police historian and I am currently writing a history of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary (ADRIC), of which Gerald Alfred Body was a member (ADRIC Cadet No.681 & RIC No.79257). I have two photographs of the London and North-Western Hotel at North Wall Dublin, one of which is taken after he was wounded in a foiled bomb attack on 11 April 1921. I am anxious to know when didGerald A. Body die? He was awarded £180 compensation in Dublin on 21 January1922 for injuries during the attack. Best regards, JIM HERLIHY

By Jim Herlihy
On 02/09/2011

Hi Jim. I hope you get this and apologise for taking so long to answer. Have so much to find out about my family and have just found my uncle's( G A's older brother) attestation form. He signed on in Canada. It was June 1989 in Worthing hospital. We knew nothing about his injury, although I am a friend of the Rest Home my dad was in and they knew of the injury, as they bathed him. He told them it was a war wound. I only now know by:- http://irishconstabulary.com/topic/755/Q-Company. What a strange world contacting the grandson of one of the attackers on that day on that site. Did not know about the £180 must have been quite a sum then? Will mention this on rootchat but will not mention your name. Anything you want get in touch i.body@sky.com ivor

By Ivor Body
On 11/11/2011

Gerald Alfred Body. What were these men doing being sent in before the main force? 591 / 240034 L/Cpl William Brunger, discharged 17.5.19 999 / 240067 Pte R J Butcher 1080 / 240098 Pte John Edward Reeves, died of wounds 18.2.17 1117 / 240119 Pte M J Richardson, discharged 20.5.19 1128 / 240132 Pte H G Hatcher, discharged 20.3.19 1209 / 240179 Pte F S Reed, discharged 24.4.19 1344 / 240260 Pte Walter Standing, discharged 7.5.19 1350 / 240263 Pte James Wenman, discharged 7.5.19 1417 / 240309 Pte Frederick Lancaster, discharged 25.4.19 1440 / 240328 Pte Gerald Alfred Body 1447 / 240331 Pte Cecil Wallace Laurie, died of wounds 19.1.17 1483 / 240346 Pte Ernest Moore, discharged 25.4.19 1635 / 240405 Pte P A Smith, discharged 6.5.19 1666 / 240425 Pte W J Head, discharged 1.4.19 1696 / 240446 Pte Charles Samuel Elkins, discharged 25.4.19 1754 / 240480 L/Cpl Harry Obbard, discharged 26.4.19 1784 / 240499 Pte Philip Christopher Simmons, died PoW 28.9.16 1787 / 240501 Pte A Ottaway, discharged 25.4.19 1817 / 240519 Pte E T Penfold, discharged 8.4.19 2342 / 240668 Cpl W J Shelley, discharged 26.3.19 2372 / 240690 Pte Arthur B Fearn most of these men were discharged at the end of the war. Only one (Private Simmons) seems to have died as a Prisoner of War. If they were all beseiged a Alt Kut, would not more of them have suffered the same fate as Private Simmons? It is possible that these men were from a platoon of the 1/5th Buffs who volunteered for service in Mesopotamia, but they don't appear to have joined Townsend's expeditionary force.

By Ivor Body
On 06/03/2013
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