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	James Joseph Magennis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Joseph Magennis (27 October 1919 – 12 February 1986) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
		James Magennis was born in 1919 at 4 Majorca Street, West Belfast, Ireland and died in Halifax, Yorkshire in 1986.
		A wall mural commemorating James Magennis on the 60th anniversary of World War II's VE and VJ days was unveiled on 16 September 2005 by Peter Robinson DUP MP in Tullycarnet Estate, East Belfast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Joseph_Magennis (608 words)

	Magennis
		Leading Seaman Magennis served as Diver in His Majesty's Submarine XE-3 for her attack on 31st July, 1945, on a Japanese cruiser of the Atago class.
		Before a limpet could be placed therefore Magennis had thoroughly to scrape the area clear of barnacles and in order to secure the limpets he had to tie them in pairs by a line passing under the cruiser's keel.
		Despite his exhaustion, his oxygen leak and the fact that there was every probability of his being sighted, Magennis at once volunteered to leave the craft and free the carrier rather than allow a less experienced diver to undertake the job.
	www.submariners.co.uk /VC_Winners/magennis.htm (315 words)

	JAMES JOSEPH MAGENNIS VC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		James Magennis, a leading seaman, gained the VC for his remarkable courage as one of the crew of a mini-submarine planting limpet mines on ships of the Japanese Imperial Fleet in Singapore harbour in July 1945.
		Serving as a diver in HM Midget Submarine XE.3 under the command of Lt Cdr Ian Fraser VC, he attached limpet mines to the Japanese cruiser 'Takao'.
		It has been claimed that James Magennis was never given the official recognition that was his due by the Unionist-dominated Belfast City Council because he was a working-class Roman Catholic.
	www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk /stewart/bbmagenn.htm (400 words)

	HMS Ganges Association Victoria Cross Holders Royal Navy
		Leading Seaman James Magennis was the only boy trained at HMS Ganges to be awarded the highest British medal for valour in world war two.
		Leading Seaman Magennis served as diver in His Majesty's Midget Submarine XE3 for her attack on 31 July 1945 on a Japanese cruiser of the Atago class.
		Before a limpet could be placed therefore Magennis had thoroughly to scrape the area clean of barnacles, and in order to secure the limpets he had to tie them in pairs by a line passing under the cruisers keel.
	www.hmsgangesassoc.org /magennis.html (653 words)

	http://www.infomagic.net/~grog/Takao.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		As the XE-3 made her escape down the Straight, the Takao was transformed by the limpet mines into a useless wreck resting on the seabed.
		Both Fraser and Magennis were awarded the Victoria Cross for their remarkable feats.
		Owing to the fact that XE-3 was tightly jammed under the target, the diver's hatch could not be fully opened, and Magennis had to squeeze himself through the narrow space available.
	www.infomagic.net /~grog/Takao.htm (896 words)

	Lillian Magennis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Magennis was a bookkeeper for the former Sandler of Boston Shoe Co. until she retired.
		The widow of James P. Magennis, she leaves daughter and son-in-law Mary Ellen and Donald MacDonald of Hampstead; two grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
		She was also mother of the late James G. Magennis and Ann Marie Magennis.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20010113/OB_005.htm (125 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)
		His brother James was in charge of one of the New York regiments and succeeded to the command made vacant by the death of General Montgomery, and his nephew De Witt Clinton became governor of that state in 1817.
		To the American-born son of Irish immigrants, Dr. Joseph O'Dwyer, humanity the world over is indebted for the process of intubation of the larynx in cases of diphtheria and the invention of the instruments used in that operation.
		Of the fourteen provinces now (1906) constituting the territorial divisions of the Church in the continental united States, nine are governed by archbishop of Irish blood, and forty-eight of the bishops of the seventy-eight dioceses comprised in these provinces are of the Irish race.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08132b.htm (15677 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Bravery wins through 54 years on, Belfast statue for Catholic awarded VC
		In 1945 Magennis, who was 25, clamped six limpet mines to the hull of a Japanese warship, Takao, guarding Singapore.
		Exhausted after attaching the mines be cause he had first to scrape barnacles from the hull, he insisted on leaving the submarine again to free it from the sea bed despite a leak of oxygen from his breathing apparatus.
		Magennis, short of cash, sold his medal for £100 in 1952.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,260358,00.html (380 words)

	James Joyce Collection
		James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy.
		James Joyce's father, John Stanislaus Joyce, was a Cork man who had inherited enough property to ensure a comfortable living from rents, but his alcoholism led to a seemingly endless series of disasters which drove the family to abject poverty by the time young Joyce was mature.
		Young James was his father's favorite; he in turn seemed to forgive his father's weaknesses.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/joyce.j.html (1734 words)

	SUBMARINER VC HOLDERS
		James Magennis VC was born in West Belfast and served in the Royal Navy in World War II.
		He was the only person from Northern Ireland to win the Victoria Cross, the only naval rating with a VC to survive the war and the only person in naval history to exit a submarine in a diving suit, perform a military operation and return to the same submarine.
		Magennis was greeted back home with a civic reception and £3,000 from a public appeal - but, controversially, was not given the Freedom Of The City by the Unionist-controlled council.
	www.godfreydykes.info /submariner_vc_holders.htm (3668 words)

	AUGUST 2000 newsletter - Durban - South African Military History Society - Title page
		Magennis was a submariner who won his VC in the closing days of the war in July 1945 in Singapore harbour.
		The Catholic neighbourhood, where he lived, despised him for fighting in the British military and the Protestant mayor and the local Belfast council refused to honour him because he was a Catholic.
		In disgust Magennis moved to the north of England where sense prevailed and his bravery was honoured with a plaque in Bradford's Anglican Cathedral, before he died in 1986.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/0/d00augne.html (1661 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: ...and finally... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In 1996 no councillor from Castlereagh Council knew Jame Magennis lived in their council area from 1951 to 1955 (32 Carncaver Road) until I wrote to them requesting they erect a plaque on his former home and within the council buildings.
		Now WW2 Magennis VC was remembered in Castlereagh in 1997, but he had still not been officially remembered in Belfast.were he was born. So while researching for a modern historical biography on the Belfast hero, I wrote a short letter to the Belfast Telegraph informing the public he had been forgotten.
		Recorded in the minutes Friday 24th January 1997 “councillor Cobain made a proposal for a single memorial to James Magennis VC seconded by councillor Maginness, eight members voted for the proposal and none against, it was accordingly declared carried”.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/09/and_finally.php (4220 words)

	McNelis Genealogy Home Page
		James McNelis, 1 Radnor Dr., C-5., Newtown Square, PA 19073 is the contact for this family or Patrick McNelis at mcnelis@worldnet.att.net can also help you if you prefer e-mail to snail mail.
		James married Mary Carr (1848-1891) of Muckross, Kilcar in 1869.
		Joseph McNelis, who came over from Ireland and was a hat maker, married a Moore (she was Native American) and had three sons Joseph, Francis and George, all of whom were born on the Pound Ridge Reservation (now called Ward Pound Ridge state park) in Cross River, New York.
	www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/j/w/jwd6/mcnelis.htm (12986 words)

	Ian Edward Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		On 31 July 1945 in the Johore Straits, Singapore, Lieutenant Fraser, in command of HM Midget Submarine XE.3, went to attack the Japanese cruiser Takao, which was located after a long and hazardous journey.
		Lieutenant Fraser slid the submarine under the target which lay over a depression in the sea bed, and his diver (James Joseph Magennis) went out to fix the limpet mines to the bottom of the ship.
		The two side-charges then had to be released, but the starboard charge stuck and the diver climbed out again and after a nerve-wracking five minutes released the charge.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/pc-inventory.html (316 words)

	31 July 1945
		After 11 hours bumping along the bottom in often dangerously shallow water, Fraser managed to position XE.3 directly below Takao, and his diver, L/S James Joseph Magennis (1919-86) RN, squeezed out a hatch which could only be partly opened, blocked by the cruiser's hull, to attached limpet mines to the her.
		Once Magennis had returned to XE.3, Fraser released the submarine's main weapons - large explosive charges carried on each side of the vessel.
		However, one of the racks for the limpet mines would not release, upsetting the trim of the submarine; Magennis once more had to swim outside to help free it, which he managed after several minutes of difficult work.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1945/07/31.htm (944 words)

	Belfast Online Research :: Information about Belfast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		During the Second World War, Belfast was one of the major cities in the United Kingdom bombed by Germany forces and virtually the only one intentionally bombed by the Luftwaffe on the isle of Ireland, most of which had remained neutral during the War.
		The city is also the headquarters of BBC Northern Ireland, the ITV station Ulster Television and the commercial radio stations Cool FM and Belfast CityBeat.
		James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
	www.ncweddingplanner.com /search/Belfast.html (1985 words)

	James Joseph Magennis: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		James Joseph Magennis was an Irish Irish quick summary:
		(Mr Magennis was from the nationalist Falls Road in west Belfast and some of his supporters have long blamed institutionalised sectarianism for denying him freedom of the city, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Magennis VC was his first buy from Sotheby's in 1986, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /enc1/james_joseph_magennis (1652 words)

	WW II Awards for RN Bomb and Mine Disposal
		Leading Seaman Magennis served as Diver in His Majesty's Midget Submarine XE-3 for her attack on 31st July 1945 on a Japanese cruiser of the Atago Class.
		This was very tiring work for a diver and he was moreover troubled by a steady leakage of oxygen which was ascending in bubbles to the surface.
		Despite his exhaustion, his oxygen leak and the fact that there was every possibility of his being sighted, Magennis at once volunteered to leave the craft and free the carrier rather than allow a less experienced diver to undertake the job.
	www.mcdoa.org.uk /ww_ii_awards_for_rn_diving_b_and_md_M.htm (2192 words)

	Coughlan Dedication
		The last Irish recipient of the VC was L/Seaman James Joseph Magennis from West Belfast.
		In the Johore Straits on 31 July 1945, L/Sman Magennis was a diver on the XE3 midget submarine.
		Magennis squeezed himself through the narrow opening, and had to remove barnacles from the bottom of the Cruiser before he could attach the mines.
	www.militaryheritagetours.com /info/spch_mhtldonal.html (4841 words)

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		T/Captain James Joseph Bernard JACKMAN on 19th March 1916 at Dublin.
		A/Leading Seaman James Joseph MAGENNIS on 27th October 1919 at Belfast.
		Sergeant Joseph WARD in 1832 at Kinsale, Co.
	www.victoriacross.co.uk /irish.html (1596 words)

	ADAMS, Rev
		One was killed and 13 horses (including his own) out of 21 were killed before he got half way to the guns, and he was forced to retire.
		South Africa, Surgeon Major Reynolds attended the wounded under fire and voluntarily carried ammunition from the store to the defenders of the hospital, exposing himself to cross-fire from the enemy in doing so.
		Charging through a rebel camp into two batteries, they captured and brought into their own camp two of the enemy's guns, under a heavy and converging fire from the fort and town.
	www.aoh61.com /history/victoria_cross_hy.htm (6891 words)

	The Discomfort of Thought: Heroes
		I am referring to the VC, and the submariner is James Joseph Magennis.
		When the mines did not deploy correctly, which prevented the sub from exiting, Magennis immediately volunteered to swim back out, and work on the explosives with a wrench until they were freed.
		Oct 8th is the anniversary of his death, and 6 years ago this day he finally got his due and had a statue commemorating his deeds dedicated.
	discomfortofthought.blogspot.com /2005/10/heroes.html (269 words)

	Irish Aires News: 02/02/05 - Peace In Crisis As IRA Scraps Pledge
		But for James Winters, there was an ethical code that was worth more than the bottom line of his successful waste management company.
		The longtime St. James resident and a founder of Winters Brothers Recycling Corp. died Sunday of lung disease at home surrounded by his family.
		In addition to his wife and son Joseph, Winters is survived by sons Sean, James Jr., Michael and Andrew, all of St. James; brother Joseph and sister Dorothy Tschan, both of Douglaston; and six grandsons.
	irishaires.blogspot.com /2005/02/020205-peace-in-crisis-as-ira-scraps.html (4266 words)

	Hampton Union: Obituaries from October 20, 2000
		He was born in May 9, 1918 in Winchester, Mass., the son of the late Hugh and Mary Doherty.
		He is survived by two daughters, Lorraine Stearns and her husband David of California, and Jeanne Myers and her husband Tom of Hudson; a son, Dennis and his wife Linda of Burlington; two brothers, Hugh of Woburn, Mass.
		She was predeceased by her husband, James A. Heighton, who died Jan. 26, 2000.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2000news/hampton/h10_20obit.htm (1169 words)

	surnames
		Joseph Bluett and Extract of Marriage), at the Presbytery, this was held in the Presbytery not the Church probably because the bride was pregnant and the custom was to marry sinners in the Presbytery not the church.
		Charged with Joseph RASPBERRY of burglary on 07th Dec 1800 about 7pm in a dwelling house at St Mary Lambeth of Thomas Evance Esq and stealing goods to value of £33.6.0.
		Married: George James Hambridge 7/7/1841 C of E, Parish Narellan, N.S.W. Australia.
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	Planet Battlefield Forums
		My Uncle (Leading Seaman James Joseph Magennis) won a Victoria Cross for his part onboard an XE3 Midget Sub in the Jahore Straights, Singapore.
		After returning to the sub they released extra munitions from the sides of the sub and one wouldn't detahc properly so, even though he was exhausted, he went back out to release them manually.
		There is a book about him (Magennis VC) and there is a statue in his honour outside Belfast City Hall.
	www.forumplanet.com /planetbattlefield/topic.asp?fid=5552&tid=1721771 (835 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Henry Monro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This vacuum was only filled after several days had elapsed, and by the time Monro was in position, the Down insurgents had already mobilised and had engaged the loyalist forces at Saintfield.
		At his court martial, Monro's defence was that he had been forced to act as the rebel general by one Townsend.44 James Townsend was a schoolteacher, resident in Greyabbey, and tutor to the children of the Reverend James Porter.
		He was active in the rebel army during the days of the rising in county Down, both as a promoter of sedition and as a military leader.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Monro_Henry_407477349.htm (1207 words)

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