Attack on Black and Tans at Patrick Street

(Irish War of Independence - First Cork Brigade)

The Black and Tan party were in the area marked when they were fired at from one of the buildings on the right.

 At 12.35 a.m. on October 3rd., 1920, members of Cork No. 1 Brigade carried out a lethal attack on a party of four Black and Tans on Cork's main thoroughfare.

R.I.C constable Victor Chave was killed and two others wounded when they were fired upon from two top windows of a building known as Blackthorn House at the western end of Patrick Street. The four constables were on the opposite side of the street when at least six shots were fired at them.  

Constable Chave was a single man from Sheerness with three months police service, having been a tailor and a soldier before joining the R.I.C. He was attached to Empress Place barracks, Summerhill North. He suffered a severe wound to his left shoulder during the attack and was taken to the Military Hospital at Victoria Barracks but died from his wounds two hours later.