De Courcy Wyndor Plunkett Ireland

From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to navigationJump to search

Squadron Commander De Courcy Wyndor Plunkett Ireland, R.N. (18 January, 1885 – 21 February, 1916) was an officer in the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

Born in Clonmel.

Ireland was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 28 February, 1906.[1]

Ireland was appointed in command of the destroyer Havock on 1 February, 1910.[2]

Ireland was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 26 February, 1914.[3]

Ireland was promoted to the rank of Flight Commander on 1 July, 1914.[4]

Ireland was promoted to the rank of Squadron Commander on 27 May, 1915. In late September he was to be transferred from Yarmouth Air Station to Eastchurch Bombing Squadron.[5]

Ireland died at Kingsnorth alongside Wing Commander Neville Florian Usborne in a wartime experiment to launch a fighter plane from airship AP.1 as a defence against Zeppelin attacks.

See Also

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Edmund D. Faber 		Captain of H.M. T.B. 68
6 Apr, 1906[6][7] – 6 Apr, 1908[8] 		Succeeded by
John A. Scott
as Captain of H.M. T.B. 068
Preceded by
Thomas K. Maxwell 		Captain of H.M.S. Havock
1 Feb, 1910[9][10] – 6 Aug, 1910[11] 		Succeeded by
Charles H. Jones
Preceded by
Reginald Gregory 		In Command, Yarmouth Naval Air Station
26 Nov, 1915[12] – 21 Feb, 1916[13] 		Succeeded by
Robert M. Groves

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ireland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/323. f. ?.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 324.
  3. ↑ Ireland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/323. f. ?.
  4. ↑ Ireland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/323. f. ?.
  5. ↑ Ireland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/323. f. ?.
  6. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1907). p. 399.
  7. ↑ Ireland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/323. f. ?.
  8. ↑ Ireland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/323. f. ?.
  9. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1910). p. 324.
  10. ↑ Ireland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/323. f. ?.
  11. ↑ Ireland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/323. f. ?.
  12. ↑ Ireland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/323. f. ?.
  13. ↑ Ireland Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/49/323. f. ?.

Retrieved from "http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php?title=De_Courcy_Wyndor_Plunkett_Ireland&oldid=325885"