Editing Lord Dunsany (section)

===Military experience===
[[File:Edward Plunkett Lord Dunsany.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.45|Dunsany as captain, [[Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers]], in the First World War]]
Dunsany served as a second lieutenant in the [[Coldstream Guards]] in the [[Second Boer War]]. Volunteering in the First World War and appointed Captain in the [[Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers]], he was stationed for a time at [[Ebrington Barracks]] in Derry. Hearing while on leave of disturbances in Dublin during the [[Easter Rising]] of 1916, he drove in to offer help and was wounded by a bullet lodged in his skull.<ref>Leonard R. N. Ashley, "Plunkett, Edward John Moreton Drax, eighteenth Baron Dunsany (1878–1957)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35547, accessed 26 November 2014]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/history/people/writers/dunsany.shtm |title=Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany |website=irelandseye.com |access-date=12 July 2017}}</ref> After recovery at [[Jervis Street Hospital]] and what was then the King George V Hospital (now [[St. Bricin's Military Hospital]]), he returned to duty. His military belt was lost in the episode and later used at the burial of [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]]. Having been refused forward positioning in 1916 and listed as valuable as a trainer, he served in the later war stages in the trenches and in the final period writing propaganda material for the War Office with MI7b(1). There is a book at Dunsany Castle with wartime photographs, on which lost members of his command are marked.

During the [[Irish War of Independence]], Dunsany was charged with violating the [[Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920|Restoration of Order in Ireland Regulations]], tried by court-martial on 4 February 1921, convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of 25 pounds or serve three months in prison without labour. The Crown Forces had searched [[Dunsany Castle and Demesne|Dunsany Castle]] and had found two double-barrelled shotguns, two rook rifles, four [[Flare gun|Very pistols]], an automatic pistol and a large quantity of pistol ammunition, along with shotgun and rifle ammunition.<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=ire%2fwo35%2f134%2f00225 ''search.findmypast.co.uk''] (subscription needed).</ref>

During the [[Second World War]], Dunsany signed up for the [[Irish Army Reserve]] and the [[British Home Guard]], the two countries' local defence forces, and was especially active in [[Shoreham, Kent]], the English village bombed most during the [[Battle of Britain]].
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