Irishmen who died in mistaken belief that a promise had been honoured
There can surely be no doubt that the British government, more particularly Lloyd George and Bonar Law, did indeed “betray the democratic voice of the Irish people and the will of the House of Commons.”
Many Irishmen (in the Dublin and Munster Fusiliers and in the 10th Irish Division) lost their lives in Gallipoli in 1915 in the belief that Home Rule had been granted to them by the British parliament in September 1914.
