First World War recruitment poster features Cork hero

Auction recalls the Victoria Cross awarded to an Inchigeelagh soldier, writes Des O'Sullivan

A World War One recruitment poster featuring Michael O'Leary VC at O'Donovan's sale.

A First World War British Army recruitment poster featuring Inchigeelagh-born Victoria Cross recipient Michael O'Leary comes up as lot 18 at O'Donovan's online auction in Newcastle West, Co Limerick, on  Wednesday (April 3). 

He was awarded Britain's most prestigious award for gallantry for single-handedly charging and destroying two German barricades defended by machine gun positions at Cuinchy in France in 1915.