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TEX BURKE discovered the details of the above accident in the 15 March 2003 edition of the Limerick Leader provincial weekly newspaper http://www.limerick-leader.ie/issues/20030315/seoighe.html

"Joe Carroll also tells of a tragic accident that took place at Wilmot's Hollow, Lisnagry on December 10, 1940, when three members of the Irish Air Corps were killed. They were part of a party of seven who were travelling in a covered army truck to Rineanna (now Shannon) airport with an aircraft starter battery urgently required by an Air Corps aircraft that was stranded at the airport. Driving conditions were bad, it was raining heavily, and suddenly the windscreen wipers of the truck stopped working. The road was narrow with steep inclines to the grass margins on both sides. the truck left the road and toppled over. Three of the men in the covered part of the truck were killed. They were Lieutenant Lee, Corporal Myles and Private Lynch. A monument, erected by the Limerick branch of O.N.E. now marks the spot where they died"

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