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1923-6
National Army Soldier James Caffrey
National Army Soldier James Caffrey (aged 24) of 9 Werburgh Street, Dublin (Fermoy)
Date of incident: 6 Jan. 1923
Sources: Evening Herald, 11 Jan 1923; II, 12 Jan. 1923; FSS Cork Civil War Deaths; MSPC/3D99 (Military Archives); http://www.irishmedals.ie/National-Army-Killed.php (accessed 9 Aug. 1923).
Note: While serving as a private in the Dublin Guards, James Caffrey died of a gunshot wound on 6 January 1923 while fighting for the Free State in Fermoy. He was the victim of an ambush of National Army troops by Irregulars there. In civilian life he had been a ‘street newsvendor’. See MSPC/3D99 (Military Archives).
‘The funeral of the late Volunteer Jas. Caffrey, 9 Werburgh St, who was killed in an ambush at Fermoy, Co. Cork, on January 6, took place to GlasnevIn Cemetery to-day [11 January] from the Carmelite Church, Whitefriar St, where the remains were taken last night [10 January]. The band of the 2nd Eastern Division from Collins Barracks under Sergt. Major Murphy accompanied the cortege. The guard of honour and firing party, also from Collins Barracks, was in charge of Comdt Peter Flood. Three volleys were fired over the grave.’ See Evening Herald, 11 Jan. 1923.
The victim’s father Edward Caffrey later made an unsuccessful claim to the Army Pensions Board for an allowance or gratuity. At the time he had not been employed for the previous three years, though he was described in 1924 as in good health and capable of working. He had three surviving children (a son and two daughters)—one a tailor, another a street dealer, and the third a housekeeper for her father. The Dublin Metropolitan Police report of 28 May 1924 was quite negative about the possible granting of a dependant’s allowance to Edward Caffrey. The Army Pensions Board decided on 4 July 1924 that there was ‘no dependency’. His deceased son had had a wife but had lived apart from her. See MSPC/3D99 (Military Archives).
