Culprit who led burning of Cork finally identified
Charles Schulze, who had served as a captain in the Dorsetshire Regiment during WWI, led Auxiliaries on a rampage of burning as a reprisal for an IRA ambush which left a colleague dead and 15 injured.
Following five years of research, a historian has disclosed that Schulze organised a group of ADRIC ‘K’ Company men who torched most of Cork city centre, especially St Patrick’s Street. The damage was estimated at the time to be have cost £2,000,000 — equivalent to €94,177,850 today. It also resulted in the loss of 2,000 jobs.
