Rebel officer by menapia on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Published: Feb 6, 2014

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Captain Jack White former high ranking officer of the British army and son of a Field Marshal. Veteran of the bloody Boer War Captain Jack witnessed the suffering of women and children in the concentration camps and became a convinced republican. He later befriended James Larkin of the I.T.G.W union and James Connolly who asked him to train a protection squad to defend strikers from police brutality and hired thugs.

This later grew into the Irish Citizens Army which took part in the Easter Rising and the War of Independence.

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