| Martin Doyle | |
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| Born | 25 October 1891 New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland |
| Died | 20 November 1940 (aged 49) Dublin, Irish Free State |
| Buried at | Grangegorman Cemetery, Dublin |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom Ireland |
| Service/branch | British Army Irish Army |
| Unit | Royal Munster Fusiliers Irish Republican Army Irish Army |
| Battles/wars | World War I Irish War of Independence Irish Civil War |
| Awards | Victoria Cross Military Medal |
Martin Doyle VC, MM (25 October 1891 – 20 November 1940) was a British Army soldier during the First World War, and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
After the war he joined the old IRA in the Irish War of Independence and served with the Irish Army during and after the Irish Civil War.
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Born in New Ross, County Wexford on 25 October 1891, he was a Company Sergeant-Major in the 1st Battalion, The Royal Munster Fusiliers, 16th (Irish) Division during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 2 September 1918 at Reincourt, France, when command of the company fell on Company Sergeant-Major Doyle, all the officers having become casualties, he extricated a party of his men who were surrounded by the enemy, and carried back, under heavy fire, a wounded officer. Later he went forward under intense fire to the assistance of a tank and when an enemy machine-gun opened fire on the tank, making it impossible to get the wounded away, he captured it single-handed and took three prisoners. Subsequently when the enemy counter-attacked, he drove them back, taking many more prisoners.
Doyle later served with the IRA in the Irish War of Independence and with the Irish Army in the Irish Civil War In 1924 he served with the Irish Army in New Ross. He died in Dublin in 1940 from poliomyelitis, aged 49.[1][2]
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