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British Army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army near Moydrum, Ireland.

Thomas Stanton Lambert

British Army general (1870/71–1921)

Major-General Thomas Stanton Lambert, was a British Army officer who served in the First World War. He joined the East Lancashire Regiment in 1891 and held a succession of regimental and staff positions in the pre-war period. During World War I Lambert took part in the Retreat…
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Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)

Irish paramilitary organisation

The Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation who waged a guerrilla campaign against the British occupation of Ireland in the 1919–1921 Irish War of Independence. It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established…
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Moydrum

Townland in Moydrum, County Westmeath, Ireland

Moydrum is a townland near Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland. The townland is in the civil parishs of St. Mary's and Ballyloughloe (Clonlonan).
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