Putting names of British Army personnel on plaque is insulting

I write on behalf of relatives of the 1916 GPO Garrison and descendants of the signatories to the Proclamation who were present at GPO headquarters in 1916.

I am asked to make it clear following Alice Hanratty’s letter last week (Irish Examiner, February 8) that we, as an organisation, are opposed in principle to any proposal to locate a wall, plaque or register in Glasnevin Cemetery or elsewhere upon which names of British Army personnel will be inscribed alongside 1916 volunteers who were killed in action or executed by Crown forces.

It is, in our view, a deeply insulting proposal.