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Thread #3945   Message #732346
Posted By: ard mhacha
18-Jun-02 - 02:19 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Kevin Barry
Subject: RE: Kevin Barry - lyric mistake
More notes from Cronin`s book, The British Army lorry stopped outside the Bakery, some distance from the footpath. The Sergant got out and dropped the tailboard. Sean O`Neill, Kevin Barry, and Bob O`Flanagan moved as planned. The Soldiers were sitting around the edges of the lorry,they had their rifles between their knees. O`Neill ordered them to drop their arms, they did so except one, one of the soldiers sitting with his back to the cab sized his rifle and shot O`Callaghan resulting in a scalp wound on the right side of his head. According to O`Neill the soldiers then continued to fire wildly. Barry`s was armed with a .38 Parabellum which jammed, the shooting continued resulting in the death of Private Washington, two others Prvates Whitehead and Humphries were badly wounded. Barry again tried to fire but once again his pistol jammed, Barry was spotted under the wheels of the lorry by a woman in the street who called out to the soldiers and he was then arrested. Ard Mhacha.