Alan Livingstone Ramsay died Easter Rising 24 April 1916

WW1, Ireland and The Easter Rising 1916

Alan Livingstone Ramsay, a partner in his father’s Charles Ramsay & Son, Royal Nurseries, Ballsbridge Road, Dublin:

“volunteered for service on the outbreak of war and has been gazetted a lieutenancy in the Royal Irish Regiment. He left Dublin on Christmas Eve 1914 to join the second battalion of his Regiment at the front and was last heard of at Rouen” (GC, 9 January 1915).

Although he served in France, Ramsay was to die aged 26 on active service on 24 April 1916 fighting in his home town of Dublin. He was the first Dublin-born British Army officer to die fighting the Irish rebels in the Easter Rising for Irish independence of 1916.

According to his CWGC records, he is buried in Mount Jerome cemetery in Dublin.

Catherine de Courcy’s excellent history of Dublin Zoo describes more about how the city and its Anglo-Irish institutions like the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland’s zoo fared during the uprising.

You can read more about Ramsay and his family on a JSTor archive article from the Dublin Historical Record.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/30101100?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

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