WW1 Private Murray Royal Irish Rifles a story stranger than fiction

Pte Peter Murray fought in the Royal Irish Rifles in WW1.
He joined up in 1917 at 18 years old, was captured, presumed dead by his family in France and held prisoner by the Germans until the end of the war. He was discharged from the army in 1919 but enlisted again the next day into the R. I. R. and survived 2 years service in Mesopatamia.
Back home in 1922 he was arrested and interned as a dangerous IRA man! He had become involved in civil disturbances but the truth was that he was not in the IRA! ( Sorry if I stated this incorrectly. I didn't mean to but that's how it came out in the filming Oooops! )
Released in 1923 he married his fiancee but by 1940 he enlisted once again into the English Cheshire regiment this time! He was sent to Italy where he was once again captured by the Germans! He survived the 2nd WW war to return home and eventually died in 1987! What a guy!
In 2013 the Republic of Ireland officially pardoned thousands of Irish citizens it had previously classed as “deserters” for going to fight Hitler with British forces in WWII. The south had remained neutral from 1939 to 1945. When they returned home they were barred from state jobs, lost pension rights and faced discrimination.
In 2018 Republican Sinn Féin issued a press release saying Irish people who joined the British Army were “traitors to Ireland”.