Post IR-03 helps unveil bench

On June 2, Post IR-03 participated in an unveiling ceremony by Richie Gormerly, mayor of West Roxbury, Mass., of a bench honouring his late brother Brig. Gen. William J. Gormerly III, former commanding general of the Massachusetts National Guard, at Lecarrow, Co. Roscommon.
The Gormerly family has deep ancestral ties to the Lecarrow area. Gen. Gormerly died suddenly in Hawaii in 1963. The mayor was accompanied by 64 Americans from the Boston area. Also partaking in the ceremony were members of the Irish 19th Infantry Battalion (FCA) Association, as well of members of the Irish Organization of National ex-Servicemen and women (ONE). A folded American flag was presented to the general’s widow, and we laid a wreath on the bench. A trumpeter from the Irish army band in Athlone sounded the Last Post (Taps).