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Pte. James Joseph Daly
British Army 1st Btn. Connaught Rangers
James Joseph Daly served with the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers during WW1. He was executed for mutiny on the 2nd November 1920 age 20 and is on the Kirkee War Cemetery Memorial in India.
The last two soldiers to be executed in 1920 were Irish, one of them was Private James Joseph Daly, aged 20 years. He was shot for his part in the much chronicled mutiny by the 1st Connaught Rangers. Fourteen of those who took part in the mutiny were sentenced to death, the other 13 were reprieved and only Daly was executed.