Walking in Deansgrange cemetery today and I came across an interesting juxtaposition of graves.
The two men were killed on the same day within a few hundred meters of each other - in death they again lie about same distance apart.
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| Volunteer John Costello, a dispatch rider Killed in Action 26th April 1916 on Grand Canal St. |
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| Roll of Honour Republican Plot |
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| Capt. F. C Dietrichsen, Killed in Action 26th April at Mount St Bridge [the date is incorrect on the stone] |
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| This is how Capt. Dietrichsen's grave appeared on 1st March of this year |
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| The grave of a civilian William Gregg, a bottle blower from Ringsend A neighbour of my grandmother |
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