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    1. [IRL-CARLOW] Chaplain Major John Ryan of Leighlinbridge
    2. Michael Brennan
    3. Thanks Turtle http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/John_Ryan.htm Regards Michael Brennan County Carlow Website: http://goo.gl/67Vce My Laois Page: http://goo.gl/Bn5KE -----Original Message----- From: Turtle Bunbury Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 3:49 PM To: Michael Rootsweb Brennan Cc: Michael Purcell Subject: Chaplain Major John Ryan of Leighlinbridge Hi Michael, Could be of interest to the list ... am sending to you because it has image also and I don't think we can upload images to the list ... Hope all well, TB > Steve Mad Paddy Murtagh: 'This original photograph by Associated > Press and from my own collection, has a caption that reads: ' Mass > Held at ' Happy Valley ' Monument. Chaplain Major John Ryan of > Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Eire, conducts mass at the Dedication > Ceremony of a Monument to 200 British dead who fell in ' Happy > Valley ' Korea, fighting a rearguard action in January. The Monument > constructed by a Korean stonemason is to the men of the 1st > battalion, The Royal Ulster Rifles, The 8th King's Royal Irish > Hussars and the 170th Independent Morar Battery, Royal Artillery.' >

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