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1ST (DUBLIN) BATTALION IRISH ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTEER TRAINING CORPS, GROUP PHOTOGRAPH OF AN UNIDENTIFIED COMPANY ON PARADE. The volunteers, all youths or mature men, in civilian clothes, rifles over shoulder, drawn up in a double rank along a country road, officer in front, probably Mr F.H. Browning, with swagger stick under left arm. Taken at an unidentified location, possibly south county Dublin in the autumn of 1914, before uniforms were issued. Francis Henry Browning, B.A. raised and commanded the Irish Rugby Football Union Volunteer Corps and was second in command of the Irish Association of Volunteer Training Corps. He was killed in action during an ambush on Northumberland Road on the first day of the 1916 Rising as he and a contingent of the IRVTC were returning to Dublin after taking part in a day's route marching outside the city. The Dublin Battalion of the IAVTC, known popularly as the ''Gorgeous Rex's'' for the GR badge that they wore, and by Dublin wags as the ''Gorgeous Wrecks'', because of their generally advanced years and genteel backgrounds, lost five men killed and seven wounded during the ambush. Casualties would have been higher were it not for the fact that the rebels ceased firing once they realised that the GR's didn't have any ammunition. The unit, a kind of Home Guard, was composed of youths who were too young to volunteer for military service and men whose age made them ineligible for active service. This photograph was originally the property of Henry Hanna, author of The Pals at Suvla Bay. 1ST (DUBLIN) BATTALION IRISH ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTEER TRAINING CORPS, GROUP PHOTOGRAPH OF AN UNIDENTIFIED COMPANY ON PARADE. The volunteers, all youths or mature men, in civilian clothes, rifles over shoulder, drawn up in a double rank along a country road, officer in front, probably Mr F.H. Browning, with swagger stick under left arm. Taken at an unidentified location, possibly south county Dublin in the autumn of 1914, before uniforms were issued. Francis Henry Browning, B.A. raised and commanded the Irish Rugby Football Union Volunteer Corps and was second in command of the Irish Association of Volunteer Training Corps. He was killed in action during an ambush on Northumberland Road on the first day of the 1916 Rising as he and a contingent of the IRVTC were returning to Dublin after taking part in a day's route marching outside the city. The Dublin Battalion of the IAVTC, known popularly as the ''Gorgeous Rex's'' for the GR badge that they wore, and by Dublin wags as the ''Gorgeous Wrecks'', because of their generally advanced years and genteel backgrounds, lost five men killed and seven wounded during the ambush. Casualties would have been higher were it not for the fact that the rebels ceased firing once they realised that the GR's didn't have any ammunition. The unit, a kind of Home Guard, was composed of youths who were too young to volunteer for military service and men whose age made them ineligible for active service. This photograph was originally the property of Henry Hanna, author of The Pals at Suvla Bay.