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June 18, 2008

DEATH OF WOGAN BROWNE FROM THE LONDON TIMES

Having viewed the recent material re. the death of Wogan Browne on the Grey Abbey site, Mark McLoughlin sent in an article from the London Times and an aerial photo of Kildare Town just a few years prior to the shooting. Our thanks to Mark
The Times Feb. 10 1922
Article supplied by MARK MCLOUGHLIN
 
 
ARMY OFFICER SHOT DEAD
MOTOR-CAR BANDITS’ CRIME
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
 
 
A report reached Dublin to-night that Lieutenant Wogan Brown, R.F.A., attached to the Kildare Barracks, was shot dead at 11.30 this morning by a number of armed men.
Lieutenant Brown was a well-known Rugby football player, and within recent weeks had played as wing three-quarter for the British Army. He was to have played to-morrow in Dublin for Lansdowne, which has now abandoned its matches for the day.
Inquiries show that Lieutenant Brown was coming from the National Bank with £300. On arrival at the corner of Infirmary-road, which is almost opposite the artillery barracks, he was held up by two men, who stepped out of a motor-car.
Lieutenant Brown, it is said, resisted the attempted robbery. He was immediately shot through the forehead and fell dead on the footpath. The men took the money and, jumping into the motor-car, ordered the driver to get up speed. They had the car stopped at a place called the yellowbog, about 1½ miles from Kilcullen. Here they left the car and, threatening the driver, told him to drive on towards Kilcullen. Constabulary and volunteer police are scouring the country, and arrests are expected.
 
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Aerial View of Kildare Town c.1918 courtesy of Mark McLoughlin
coloured square shows site of shooting - left of this is the County Infirmary (now The Derby House Hotel) and mid/bottom right is the Artillery Barracks 
Having viewed the recent material re. the death of Wogan Browne on the Grey Abbey site, Mark McLoughlin sent in an article from the London Times and an aerial photo of Kildare Town just a few years prior to the shooting. Our thanks to Mark

Posted by mariocorrigan at June 18, 2008 10:30 PM