Roger Kassem: 1916 The hero was extracted and returned

Amazing details about the required appetite in extracting the remains of the 1916 hero Rogem Kasem from the tomb of London Prison before returning to Ireland 60 years ago.

the Irish era, In 2020, the excavation was described as “dispensing Macabre”, explaining the details discovered in a volume of documents available from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Casement, a former British civilian in Dublin, was hanging on charges of treason in the wake of the rise of Easter in 1916 after a German submarine fell to us Strand.

Irish governments have always been the return of his remains in Ireland, and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson recently agreed in 1965.

The duty to monitor the extraction of bodies in Bentonville’s prison has decreased to an Irish diplomat based in the London Embassy. In a note sent on March 4, 1965, he recorded that he went to prison with other Irish and British officials to oversee drilling, on February 23.

British officials are expected to find a layer of charcoal near the body as they understood the lime that has not been used on the date of Casement. They believed that the grave would be 10 feet deep and that the soil was a typical clay London, which was heavy and difficult to dig.

Instead, they encountered amazing a layer of lime, clay, very thick water and gradually drilling pump on the grave.

Irish diplomatic note noticed, “In this hole in the middle, we encountered the bones of the arm, the pelvic bones, many ribs and vertebrae. We also encountered the thigh bones.

“It has been very well preserved through the work of lime although it was largely black and specialized in the soil and lemon itself. We got some water and made them wash, dry us and put in the coffin.”

One of the workers has bone turbulent with a selection an ax, taking into account the working conditions.

The memo added, “However, at this stage, the issue of some appetite has become to find the head, and if we can see that we have maintained the right as possible.”

“When this was done, the bones were washed, we felt that we all have practically we may have survived the work of the fast lime and 49 years in a grave covered with water.”

The next day, the remains were transferred to Ireland. The funeral of a detailed state was followed on the first of March, when the coffin was brought in the center of Dublin, where the huge crowds gathered, before interfering in the Glasifin cemetery.

The transfer of Casement from Pentonville to Glasnevin was imagined by Irish and British governments as a symbolic gesture of goodwill that would determine the political stage of the Anglo-1965 Free Trade Agreement.

*Posted in 2020. It was updated in 2025.