17th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, on parade in the Curragh, Kildare, Feb-Apr, 1922.
Photograph, Charlton and Sons, Newbridge and Curragh, 1922.
Plus written explanation from the memoirs of the donor’s father Sgt H W O’Riley of how guns from the battery were used by the Free State during the Battle of the Four Courts in Dublin and how horses from the battery were handed to the Irish Free State for use in Michael Collins’ funeral.
Photograph includes the gun carriage which was handed over to the Irish Free State Army for the funeral procession of Michael Collins on 28 Aug 1922.
Associated with Ireland (1916-1922).