Irish Rebellion May 1916 Ephemera, and Royal Munster Fusiliers Stereo View Cards,

Three images and a later membership card relating to the Irish Rebellion of May 1916, including a post card captioned ‘Irish Rebellion - May 1916’ A group of officers with a captured rebel flag, the image with twenty officers, six seated, the remaining standing, centre rear an officer with the rebel flag tied to a bayonet attached to a rifle., Daily Sketch, Dublin; A photograph of a young soldier holding a rifle with a sling, wearing a Glengarry with the badge of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, an unusual plastron tunic, and unusual diamond patterned trousers, snow to the rural background, named to the reverse ‘P. Joseph? Savage, 2 Batt. K.O.S.B.’, beneath this the initials ‘I.R.A.’ in large pencilled letters; a Canadian Royal Grenadiers Sergeants Mess Membership Card, named to ‘Sgt. T. Savage’. dated 1936, another postcard with ‘The Quay (After The Rebellion) Dublin’, marked to the reverse ‘Valentine series Dublin’; Stereo View Cards relating to both the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion, including several very good images of the Royal Munster Fusiliers fighting during the Boer War, including The Redoubt at Honey Nest Kloof, captioned ‘Where the bullets fly thick and fast’, The Irish Brigade in a hard fight, Orange Free State. Harts Hill; The Irish Brigade’s famous charge, Colenso; The Irish Brigade on the firing line in the Orange Free State, with the troops pictured in the prone position sniping at the enemy; three other images of Ireland tourist locations, and two others, the first showing a German Infantry unit in China circa 1900, titled ‘Germany’s Brave Sons’, the other a Russian medical unit during the same campaign, good condition and better

15cm wide