“My father, Patrick Casserly, born in Cork in 1897, son of a policeman. This photo was taken on a trip to Dublin in about 1946. In 1918 he was working in the post office in Bantry when he joined the Volunteers as an intelligence officer during the War of Independence. After independence he joined the new Irish Army as a lieutenant and served in the Railway Protection Repair and Maintenance Corps. He subsequently returned to working in post offices, in Cobh and Kinsale.”
(1946)
Submitted by Noel Casserly