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AN EXCELLENT PRUSSIAN 1915 DATED REGIMENTALLY MARKED BUGLE WITH CAPTURE DETAILS :

‘TAKEN FROM A HUN PRISONER BT LT E DALTON 9TH DF, 1ST JULY 1916′

HAS BEEN POLISHED BUT OTHERWISE APART FROM A FEW DENTS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

SOME PRELIMINARY RESEARCH SHOWS THAT DALTON HAD A CHEQUERED CAREER – SERVING WITH DISTINCTION IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR, BEFORE JOINING THE IRA!

WORTHY OF FURTHER RESEARCH

Emmet Dalton MC (4 March 1898 – 4 March 1978) was an Irish soldier and film producer. He served in the British Army in the First World War, reaching the rank of acting Captain. However, on his return to Ireland he became one of the senior figures in the Dublin Brigade of the guerrilla Irish Republican Army which fought against British rule in Ireland.

He was a close associate of Michael Collins and travelled separately from the Irish Treaty negotiating team with Collins to London. He was Military Liaison Officer for the Treaty talks. During the Irish Civil War he held one of the highest ranks as Major General in the pro-Treaty National Army but resigned his command following the death of Collins. He later founded a film production company in London and founded Ardmore Studios in Wicklow together with Louis Elliman in 1958, producing a number of notable pictures in the 1950s and 1960s.