Valor No Hometown Hero
Sep 04, 2018
2 minutes
By David T. Zabecki
Michael John O’Leary
British Army
Victoria Cross
France
Feb. 1, 1915
In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom. But Irish republicans had long been pushing for independence, and tensions ran high in the Emerald Isle. Thus, when the British introduced conscription in 1916, they exempted the
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