Edward Clenaghan, County Down

Forty-seven-year-old Edward Clenaghan's mother ran Clenaghan's bar on the Soldierstown Road between Moira and Aghalee.

In September 1942, Pte Herbert G Jacobs, 23 from Kentucky, and Pte Embra H Farley, 27, from of Arkansas, both soldiers of H Company 13th Armored Regiment, were inside the bar and were described as "having consumed a considerable amount of intoxicating liquor".

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They refused to leave and stole bottles of beer until finally persuaded to vacate the premises. Fifteen minutes later the window of the pub was smashed.

The publican's eldest son James Joseph Clenaghan left to remonstrate with Jacobs and Farley, while his brother cycled to report to the commanding officer ofthe nearby American camp.

"Later that night a Mr Samuel Hendron, who was cycling home from Moira train station, found Edward unconscious at the side of the road. He was brought to Lurgan hospital but he died that morning due to a fracture of the skull," Alan Freeburn says.

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Farley and Jacobs had been due to be on guard duty that night but didn't turn up. They were arrested the next day.

A court martial was held in October in Castlewellan. They were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years hard labour in Ohio.

"The evidence was pretty much stacked against them. The jurors decided that without doubt they were the