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National Army Soldier Robert Sullivan or O’Sullivan
National Army Soldier Robert Sullivan or O’Sullivan (aged 20) of Ballycatteen, Ballinspittle, near Kinsale (Kinsale Military Barracks)
Date of incident: 21 Sept. 1922
Sources: Death Certificate (Kinsale District, Union of Kinsale), 21 Sept. 1922; MSPC/2D212 (Military Archives); Keane (2017), 307, 417.
Note: Robert Sullivan was mortally wounded by accident at Kinsale Military Barracks on 21 September 1922 owing to a gunshot that resulted in the fracture of his skull and the laceration of his brain. He died within about five hours. See Death Certificate (Kinsale District, Union of Kinsale), 21 Sept. 1922. He was the foster son of Catherine Fitzgerald of Ballycatteen (and other addresses), who applied repeatedly but unsuccessfully for a dependant’s allowance over many years. (The provisions of the Army Pensions Acts did not extend to the dependants of foster children.) She often referred to her foster son Robert as having been ‘murdered’, by which she meant that he had keen killed by another soldier. In civilian life Robert Sullivan had been a tram labourer. See MSPC/2D212 (Military Archives).
In the 1911 census Robert Sullivan was listed as a boarder in the household of the elderly Ballycatteen farmer Patrick Fitzgerald (then aged 71), whose unmarried daughter Catherine (then aged 29) co-resided with her father, brother-in-law William Driscoll, and married sister Nellie Driscoll. Nellie and her husband William Driscoll were the parents of a one-year-old girl. Robert Sullivan (then aged 9) was the only other member of this household in 1911.
