George Booker

Farmer and sub postmaster in Crossakeel

Statement made in 1957 by Charles Conaty
O/C, 2nd Battn., No. 3 Brigade.

The lorry we attacked was not the usual one that went that way. It so happened that Mrs. Booker, wife of the Postmaster at 8.Crossakiel, had gone into the Kells Post Office and subsequently to Kells R.I.C. barracks to report that Shorty Smith with the pony, sidecar and mails had not arrived at Crossakiel Post Office that morning and was missing. The Tans and R.I.C. had come out in the lorry, which we attacked, to trace him.