March 44, is recorded in an ordinary copy book.

This section describes an incident off LOP63, 5 Destroyers, 1 Battleship, 2 Submarines that were sighted 20/21/22 March’44.

Concerning the Volunteers i 4581 22/03/1944 Dr Dwyer rang from Pulathomas to say that she could not attend 208353 Vol Burns T before tomorrow morning as she had only returned from the dispensary and she had no mode of conveyance only a push bike and thought it too late to travel such a distance.

MARCH 44 ordinary copy books

i4467 2 aircraft circle post

i4470 04/03/44 battleship

i4512 11/03/44 7 aircraft pass most going east noise3 Hudson , Sunderland 2, Beaufighter

i4543 19/03/44 11 aircraft Beaufighter Sunderland Catalina Liberator reported

i4557 20/03/44 sighted 5 destroyers 6 miles east of post, they move west, moderate weather (why are they in so close ?? )

i4558 a 35.000 Battleship, 18 miles east moving east Nat unknown

i4650 sighted conning tower and periscopes of 2 submarines 5 miles NE moving NW

i4561 destroyers move to 9 miles NW of the post going N

i4571 21/03/44 16.50 5 Destroyers stationery 15 miles north of the post firing flares or rockets into the sky

i4573 21/03/44 Battleship 12 miles north

i4568 21/03/44 object recovered from the sea 4 miles west of post, steel shell

i4573 21/03/44 similar object washed ashore as above

i4576 21/03/44 20.17 5 Destroyers and Battleship seen again

i4580 22/03/44 British Oxford bomber circle

i4581 22/03/44 Dr Dwyer rang from Pulathomas to say that she could not attend 208353 Vol Burns T before tomorrow morning as she had only returned from the dispensary and she had no mode of conveyance only a push bike and thought it too late to travel such a distance.

i4585 23/03/44 Vol Bourns T unfit for 5 days

i4598 27/03/44 re change of time form 09 to 08

27/03/44 Vol Bourns reports for duty after 5 days duty sore leg

i4616 Vol T Bourns medical cert .

Documents courtesy of Military Archives, Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin.