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T.P. Kilfeather’s history of the famous mutiny by the Connaught Rangers in India in 1920.
The Mutiny began in Jalandhar, on the plains of the Punjab and spread to Solan, a hill station. News of the Black and Tan atrocities at home in Ireland, which reached the Rangers in letters, triggered off the mutiny. The 1st Battalion of the Rangers laid down their arms, declaring they’d serve no more as soldiers for England. Consequently, Major-General G. de S. Barrow, Northern Command of the British Army in India, ordered that Private James Daly, aged 22, of Tyrellspass, Co. Westmeath, of the 1st Battalion of the Connaught Rangers, be executed by firing squad at Dagshai Prison on Tuesday, 2nd November, 1920.
