Edward Mannock

arnhem44

Edward Mannock was a WWI ace who alot of people claim was Irish,there seems to be conflicting info on the net,one site says he was born in Britain and others Ireland,is there any solid proof that he was Irish?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mannock

FiSe

It says here, that Scotish father and English mother, but could she be Irish?

By the time Edward Corringham Mannock was twelve years old, his Scots father had abandoned his English wife and children, leaving them destitute. Mannock dropped out of school to take various jobs in order to help with the family finances.When the war began, he was interned in Turkey while working as an inspector for a British telephone company. After an unsuccessful escape attempt, he became deathly ill and was repatriated by the Turks in 1915. When he

Very interesting page about, not only, WWI aces: http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/


Here Flying In Ireland, February 2009:
'...mother Julia O'Sullivan met his father, Corporal mannock, while the Second Inniskilling Dragoons were based at Ballincollig in Cork....Edward was apparently born at preston cavalry barracks, Brighton on may 24th....

goldie fish

Simple answer is that as the 26 counties was part of the British Empire during WW1, his nationality would be listed as british.

FiSe

Not necessarily, citizenship would be British, but nationality could be Irish, Scottish or British.
Even today we have Irish citizens with different nationalities and other way around, we have, let's say American citizens with Irish nationality...