Volunteer Richard Coleman Commemoration - Sunday 11th December 2005

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Volunteer Richard Coleman Commemoration - Sunday 11th December 2005
Assembling in Swords Village Outside Fingal County Council Offices @2:00pm
Marching To St. Colmcilles Graveyard.
Speaker Aengus O Snodaigh TD.
Organised by the Coleman/Fullerton Sinn Fein Cumann, North County Dublin.

Volunteer Richard Coleman
From Swords in Co. Dublin, Volunteer Richard Coleman was a member of the Irish Volunteers who fought with Seán Heuston in the Mendicity Institute in 1916. Following the Rising he was sentenced to death though this was commuted to three years' penal servitude. He was imprisoned in Lewes Prison in England. Following his release he immediately reengaged with the Volunteers. He was to imprisoned on two further occasions the latter proving to be fatal. Following arrest and imprisonment as part of the "German Plot" in 1918 he was sent to Usk Jail where Richard was among a group of POWs struck down by the influenza virus - they were left in their damp and cold cells for three days after the flu struck them down. On 1 December, a new prison doctor, Dr. Morton took up his new duties in the prison and immediately he diagnosed that Richard had now suffering from pneumonia and he had him transferred to hospital. He died a few days later on 9 December 1918.