The Gazette 1921-25

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AuGtrsx, 1921] The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

I have no doubt that when you have had an opportunity of examining Mr. Sheppard's work you will all agree that he has not only justified our selection and confidence but has achieved a superb result entitling him to the highest praise and reflecting the highest credit on the artistic capabilities of Dublin City. We have had photos of the Memorial prepared, which will be presented to all relatives who may apply to our Secretary, Mr. Wakely, for them. After careful consideration the Council decided that a Memorial of this kind, being essentially a family affair, subscriptions should be limited strictly to our own ranks, and though we might have invited some exalted outside personage to preside at this ceremony, it was felt that it would be more dignified, seemly and agreeable to the profession that it should be confined to our own selves as a purely domestic function in the privacy of our own official premises, and it is under these circumstances that the responsibility has devolved upon me, and I am keenly sensible of the honour. During the War 155 Irish Solicitors and 83 Apprentices joined the military forces; of these we honour to-day the memory of 20 Solicitors and 18 Apprentices who ventured all and gave their lives in the Great Adventure, and I will ask you all now to stand up in their honour and come to attention while I read out their names :— SOLICITORS. FRANCIS AHERN. THOMAS JOYCE ATKINSON.

APPRENTICES TO SOLICITORS. HUGH MONTGOMERY BAILLIE. VINCENT CONNELL BYRNE. ARTHUR NICKSON CALLAGHAN. ARTHUR C. CROOKSHANK. JAMES JOHN DAVIDSON. FREDERICK E. B. FALKINER. MICHAEL J. FITZGIBBON. PHILIP JAMES FURLONG. IVAN HAROLD GARVEY. J. KENNETH MACGREGOR GREER.

THOMAS 0. J. KAVANAGH. HENRY IRWIN MAHAFFY. DANIEL O'RORKE. ROBERT KELLY POLLIN. MARCUS RALPH RUSSELL. JOHN HARTLEY SCHUTE. SAMUEL LEE TOLERTON. ALEXANDER M. TURNBULL.

The Memorial which we are about to unveil records in a tangible and lasting form, and is an endeavour to articulate and perpetuate those feelings of admiration, gratitude and pride with which we, as a profession, cherish the memory and loss of those young lives who, on our behalf, went out from amongst us, lives which, though dedicated to civil life and peaceful pursuits, with no previous military training and no premonition of what was before them, when the call came proved that our ranks con tained brave men of heroic instincts and public spirit, of high resolve and dauntless courage, who realised in its highest and most supremely unselfish sense the full significance of what is involved in the word Duty— which in their case prematurely, as in our own sooner or later, " leads but to the grave." In the interval that has elapsed a multiplicity of thrilling and distressing events have pressed upon us as a civil population, struggling to emerge and emancipate our selves from the dreadful aftermath of the most devastating and brutal war in history. If we can but adjust the perspective of our minds over this crowded interval back to those dreadful days, we will recollect how we were confronted by a danger unpre cedented in our history or experience, a danger so threatening, so overwhelming to our very existence and to all we held most dear and sacred, that it swept away

Louis BARRON. JAMES S. BOAL.

EDWARD ELLARD BRADY. WILLIAM PUREFOY BRIDGE. JOHN VALENTINE DUNN. HERBERT S. FINDLATER. BRENDAN JOSEPH FOTTRELL. ROBERT CLIFFORD ORR. JOHN GEOFFREY PERSSE. WILLIAM REEVES RICHARDS. W. HOWARD SANDERSON. RICHARD TALBOT SCALLAN. ALFRED GEORGE F. SIMMS. WILLIAM ALAN SMILES. ROBERT STANTON. RICHARD COOKE WALLACE. SAMUEL CECIL WEBB. WILLIAM WHALEY.