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Civic Guards Wexford, group

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 20 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  7 June 1924 was a Saturday. No moustaches! Is this because of Civic Guards regulations, or fashion in 1924?

• beachcomber australia said:

  Two weeks later in Kilkenny -

• beachcomber australia said:

  And in 1923 (previous year) in Waterford -

• Rory Sherlock said:

  The sergeant seated to the right of the officer (from our viewpoint) and the Garda standing immediately behind the officers are wearing a shield-shaped pins on their uniforms - probably indicative of their membership of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association. Permission was given to PTTA members to wear their Pioneer Pin on their uniforms (according to message #8 in this link: irishconstabulary.com/the-civic-guard-t1554.html)

• Niall McAuley said:

  This building on the corner Lower George's Street and Abbey Street was an RIC barracks when the GeoHive 25" map was surveyed...