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bayonet / Volunteer Council competition, 1914

A home-made weapon, similar to a bayonet, made by the donor James Gough in December 1914. The Volunteer Council in Dublin organised a competition scheme and issued orders that those Volunteers who could do so were to make weapons for self-defence. The donor writes that this weapon "could be used on...

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