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Subject: Re: [Mar] When was Lethbridge Commander-in-C, Ireland? etc.
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:11:39 EDT


Joan

Queenstown was in southern Ireland, near Cork. It was renamed when Ireland
became independent and changed it's royalist name to, I think, Crosshaven?
The Royal Navy maintained a base at Cork from the Napoleonic wars until 1921.

David


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