Picture No | 11067941 |
Date | 1916 |
Description | Improvised armoured car, Dublin 1916 |
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British troops by an improvised armoured car made of locomotive engine smoke-boxes, in Dublin, Ireland, outside the Granville Hotel in 1916 during the Easter Rising. The holes punched in the sides were to enable soldiers hidden within to shoot through.
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Source | Original photograph in the archive of the Illustrated London News |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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