Thank you all!
aghadowey, heywood, josey, tonepad, jool, gaffy
jool hit the nail on the head !! Special thanks to you.
The side note does indeed read “The Burning of Bill”… the humour of my father, John O’Neill (Belfast), front left of the honour guard.
The date of May 1944 was incorrectly noted, it was actually June 6th 1944.
The wonderful folks at military.ie sent me the press-clipping, but without the photo.
Given the Dublin Evening Mail 10 June 1944 news article photo from jool, it was possible to verify that the couple are since deceased. They are Lt. William Joseph Coyle (Armagh) & Teresa (Terry) O’Connell (Heytesbury St, Dublin).
I would like to take the opportunity of this post to also publicly express my thanks to another great RootsChat contributor, dathai, who provided tremendous detail of my maternal lineage
(Dingle & Ball). He has recently been ill. Get well soon dathai, we’re all ‘rooting’ for you!
