Joseph Ledwidge

Ledwidge was born on Arran Quay, Dublin, Ireland to Joseph William Ledwidge, a butcher, and Elizabeth Trulock. He married Molly Owens in 1910. ==Sporting career==

He had his first successes playing with the Geraldines' selection that won two All-Ireland titles for Dublin in 1898 and 1899. He also played soccer for St. James's Gate F.C. He got his first international caps playing for Ireland against Scotland and Wales in the 1905-06 British Home Championship. ==Post-sporting life==

After his sporting career, he enlisted in the British army during World War One, and was a private in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers as well as a sapper in the Royal Engineers, seeing action in France at the Battle of Passchendaele. While serving in the latter, he received the Distinguished Conduct Medal for conspicuous gallantry. Ledwidge was a great-great nephew of historian Edward Ledwich and 2nd cousin of notable Irish anatomist and surgeon Thomas Hawkesworth Ledwich. He worked for the Ordnance Survey office and later for the Land Commission before retiring. Joseph died in Dublin on 19 January 1953 and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery. ==References==