Reginald Dunne was the second in command of the London

London

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 branch of the IRA

Irish Republican Army

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 who was hanged after killing Field Marshal

Field Marshal (UK)

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 Sir Henry Wilson.

Dunne attended St Ignatius College in Tottenham

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, North London

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. He was a former British Army

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 private in the Irish Guards

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 who fought in the First World War

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On 22 June 1922, Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan

Joseph O'Sullivan

Joseph O'Sullivan along with Reginald Dunne, was a member of the Irish Republican Army, who shot dead Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson on his doorstep at 36 Eaton Place in London on 22 June 1922. He was hanged for the killing on 10 August 1922 at Wandsworth Prison...

 assassinated Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London. Dunne managed to escape, but O'Sullivan was captured by an angry crowd. He had lost a leg in World War I. When Dunne returned to try to help his friend, he was also captured after shooting and wounding two police officers and a passer-by. The event provided the inspiration for the film Odd Man Out

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Both men were convicted of Wilson's murder

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 and hanged at Wandsworth Prison on 10 August 1922. In 1967 Dunne and O'Sullivan were reburied in Deansgrange

Deans Grange Cemetery

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 Cemetery, Ireland

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Dunne wrote a speech which he was prevented from making from the dock (reprinted in the Irish Independent

Irish Independent

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21 July 1922):

"... We took our part in supporting the aspirations of our fellow-countrymen in the same way as we took our part in supporting the nations of the world who fought for the rights of small nationalities... The same principles for which we shed our blood on the battle-field of Europe led us to commit the act we are charged with."

"You can condemn us to death today, but you cannot deprive us of the belief that what we have done was necessary to preserve the lives and the happiness of our countrymen in Ireland. You may, by your verdict, find us guilty, but we will go to the scaffold justified by the verdict of our own consciences."