Private Bailey was a prisoner of war, with the alias ‘Sergeant Daniel Beverley’, who had joined the German ‘Irish Brigade’, sailed from Germany aboard a U-Boat and assisted Sir Roger Casement to row ashore and land at Banna Strand, Tralee on 21 April 1916. Bailey and Casement were apprehended and subsequently appeared in London at the Old Bailey court on charges of high treason.

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