BODY IN A BOG.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 96, 24 April 1926, Page 23

BODY IN A BOG.

FOUNT) AFTER FIVE YEARS. VICTIM OF IBti&H fifißfiES. The body of Major Geoffrey Eec ComptbnSmith, D.SiO:, who wis idSlnapped near Blarney-, County Cork, early in 1921; -was dug oat Of a bog in the Donpughmore district about ten miles from Cork, and was taken to Cork bairaclEi en route to Eng l Iknd for interment Major eompton-Smitfi, *ho is said to be a native of Wiltshire; -was attached to the 2nd Battalion Eoyal Welsh Fusiliers, but being an intelligence officer fie was not Stationed at any part&nlar barrkcfis. pi. the morning of April iff, ie left BatteVant Farra'cti and took triia to Blarney, where he had an appointment with a woman frieiia. She met iim at the Station, anS as they walked together to the village, a mile, distant, a party 61 young men seized Major Crimptoh-Smitn aid tooS him iiTvay. He was first ta&en to a place called where he was kept In a disused house, but the intensive military search for him caused his captors to transfer him frequently from one place to another. Eventually he was tiken to Donoughinore> and on April 30 he was shot, his body buried iv Barracharins bog without a coffin. Major Compton-Smith was allowed to write farewell letters to Ms and his commanding officer before being shot. TTig wife, Mrs. Gladys Compton-Smith, was awardeS £lO;Obo compensation in the Recorder's Court at Cork in October, 1921.