Editing Harry Colley (section)

==Early life and revolutionary period==
He joined the [[Irish Volunteers]] in 1913, serving in the [[General Post Office, Dublin|GPO]] garrison during the 1916 [[Easter Rising]]; British troops, believing him dead, used his body as a sandbag on their Gloucester Street barricade. He was imprisoned at [[Frongoch internment camp]], and was released in December 1916; becoming second-in-command to [[Oscar Traynor]] in F Company, 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade [[Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)|IRA]].<ref name=dib/> Colley served as Brigade Adjutant, Dublin Brigade IRA in 1920-1921 period was prominent in the attack on [[The Custom House]] on 25 May 1921.<ref>See Colley's successful application for a military service pension under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934. Available online at Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection - http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/search.aspx?formtype=advanced. Reference number MSP34REF20060</ref> Opposed to the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]], he took the anti-Treaty side in the [[Irish Civil War]] and was involved in the planning and organnising of IRA operations against National forces. He was arrested by National forces on 09 August 1922, interned at [[Newbridge, County Kildare]], where he went on [[hunger strike]] and was released in March 1923.<ref name=dib/> Colley later applied to the Irish government for a service pension under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934 and was awarded 12 and 1/18 years service in 1937 at Grade C for his service with the Irish Volunteers and the IRA between 1 April 1916 and 30 September 1923. <ref> Irish Military Archives, Military Service (1916-1923) Pension Collection, Harry Colley, MSP34REF20060. Available online at http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/search.aspx?formtype=advanced. </ref>