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Southern Cross, Volume 27, Issue 23, 13 September 1919, Page 7

Eighteen soldiers under a 'sergeant were marching through the streets in Fermoy, Ireland, to attend a Methodist service, when they were surrounded by 20 Sinn Feiners, who jumped from motor cars, and, revolvers in hand, called on them to “Down arms in the name of the Irish Republic.” The sergeant called on them to resist, when tiie assailants tired, killing one soldier and wounding another. In the struggle that followed they wounded two more soldiers and disarmed the rest. They then decamped,.